From the Pork Barrel: The League of Extraordinary Losers

* Walter Shapiro highlights the grim future that lies ahead for Joe Biden should he and Obama fall short in November.

* New Bridge to Nowhere discovered in New Hampshire.

* Rush Limbaugh has not shown his face in Chicago since Occupy Wall Streeters started protesting him. This would mean something if he was in Chicago.

* George W. Bush is being coaxed away from his Texas ranch long enough to visit the White House for the first time in two years for the the unveiling of his official portrait and to pick up some old Doobie Brothers records he left behind.

* Rahm Emanuel is "livid." Which, I suppose, counts as a news item.

* Don't forget to download our Election Companion App for iPhone and iPad and follow along as Ilya Gerner liveblogs Sen. Dick Durbin and Rep. Paul Ryan on this Sunday's Meet the Press.

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Quote Unquote: Blame

Joe Biden on the 40 percent of West Virginia Democrats who voted for an incarcerated felon over President Obama…

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"I don't blame people, they're frustrated, they're angry."

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This is actually a minor gaffe by Biden standards. On a normal day, he would have said that he voted against Obama as well.

Arizona Sec. of State Might Drop Obama From the Ballot

Arizona's Secretary of State is claiming that he might just decide to exclude President Obama's name from the election ballot in Arizona this fall, on account of how he might have been born in a foreign country.

So, you know, typical normal regular day in Arizona…

[Ken] Bennett, the state’s No. 2 elected official just below Gov. Jan Brewer (R), said his investigation isn’t personal. He said the reason he started looking into it is because he got more than 1,200 emails asking him to do so after [Sheriff Joe] Arpaio’s investigation came out.

"I'm not a birther. I believe the president was born in Hawaii — or at least I hope he was," Bennett said on the show. "But my responsibility as secretary of state is to make sure the ballots in Arizona are correct and that those people whose names are on the ballot have met the qualifications for the office they are seeking."

I totally one-hundred percent agree! We have to be absolutely certain that these people are who they say they are! And you know what? The good people of Hawaii agree as well…

Hawaii officials have forced [Bennett] to provide proof that he is who he says he is. They asked him to send them copies of the Arizona laws that prove the secretary of state really is the person in charge of handling the ballots. Admittedly, Bennett said they told him they were "tired of all the requests." But he is continuing anyway.

But now we have to ask ourselves: Are the "Hawaii officials" really officials in Hawaii? How do we know they're in the state? And what exactly is it that makes these people so official. Dictionary.com says that an official is "a person appointed or elected to an office  or charged with certain duties." But how do I know that I can trust that definition? Who are these people who wrote it? And what exactly is a "dictionary." I'd look up the definition, but where?! Where?!?!

I can totally see the awful spot all this puts Ken Bennett in.

America Finally Kind of Likes Mitt Romney

It cost about $100 million and several years of near-constant campaigning, but it would appear that it was all worthwhile. According to a new poll, America finally thinks that Mitt Romney is an okay-enough guy…

Fifty percent of Americans now have a favorable opinion of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, up from 39% in February and his highest by 10 percentage points. His current 41% unfavorable rating, though, leaves him with a net score of +9, after being at -8 in February. In roughly half of the 28 measurements Gallup has taken of Romney since 2006, more Americans have viewed him negatively than positively…

Although Romney's favorable rating is improved, it ranks among the lowest for recent nominees in the first Gallup poll conducted after they wrapped up the presidential nomination. Gallup has tracked favorable ratings of presidential candidates using the current question format since 1992. Only Bill Clinton, at 38% in March 1992, had a lower favorable rating than Romney currently does, partly because Clinton was still unfamiliar to a substantial minority of Americans (23%) after wrapping up the 1992 Democratic nomination. Clinton's rating improved in the months that followed as he became better known, reaching 50% in May.

I'm sure that Romney's favorability ratings will only go up higher and higher as people learn more and more about their prospective president's personality and backstory.

Just so long as they don't do any reading on their own.

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Gary Johnson Really Shooting for the Gallagher Demographic [VIDEO]

Young comedy fans may know him better as a punchline than as a stand-up comic, but, back in the day, Gallagher commanded a pretty massive audience. He made 13 one-hour specials for Showtime and toured the country selling hundreds of thousands of tickets.

The prop comic has fallen somewhat off the map recently, but he leaves behind a rather large collection of older, cranky, anti-authoritarian fan base with an affinity for impractical but mesmerizing solutions to everyday problems. If there were only some way to harness those disaffected Gallagher fans.

Enter Gary Johnson, Libertarian candidate for president…

It's just that simple.

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