From the Pork Barrel: Boys Will Be Boys

* Conservatives accuse Barack Obama of going to college, wearing a hat.

* I'd be tempted to suggest that Mitt Romney's poll numbers and belief in science might be directly correlated, but that sounds waaaaaay too sciencey.

* Oh! It turns out Indiana State Rep. Phillip Hinkle just hired that male prostitute to, you know, talk about "baseball and the view." You know, like regular straight men.

* Eric Cantor: Earthquake damage? That's a spending cut. Hurricane damage? That's a spending cut. Cutting spending? Ooh, you better believe that's a spending cut.

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From the Pork Barrel: The Rick Man Cometh

* I agree with Rick Perry 100 percent! If the Founding Fathers had wanted Medicare and Social Security, they wouldn't have invented Skid Row and bargain bin cat food.

* While we're on the subject, is Rick Perry gonna make Mitt Romney actually have to work for the GOP nomination? Not cool, man. Not cool.

* Looks like congressional Democrats are gonna have to work extra hard in order in order to close this weird popularity lead they inexplicably find themselves in.

* Another day, another anti-gay Republican caught trying to pick up a male prostitute. Yawn!

* Sometimes it seems like the only thing that Republicans are united in opposition to more than Barack Obama's center right-version of socialism is the observable universe.

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