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I've mentioned before that PUMA will be a big problem with the freshman GOP coming in, especially with the egos of some of these people with no political experience. It's a big surprise coming this close to home already, but Talking Points Memo is buzzing about the NRCC's lackadaisical support for Elmers in the recount due to the Elmers campaign's claim of not knowing the full story about the Etheridge video incident. It's magically delicious.

Dear Ms. Elmers,

Thanks so much for you making the Park 51 building a center of your campaign. It is so important that we care about this issue in North Carolina. Now that you've addressed what matters in New York, I will hope that you will also address these other out-of-state issues as well: :

* Seattle is considering a $2 billion dollar tunnel for Highway 99. If they are building a tunnel that expensive, shouldn't it go to Raleigh? Pearl Jam is from Seattle, and a lot of Pearl Jam fans live in NC. Imagine how thrilled they would be if they could go straight there with no traffic lights!

I’m running for U.S. Senate from the state of Wisconsin and if elected I will initiate a bill to outlaw homosexuality, abortion, and all forms of pornography.
—Wisconsin GOP Senate candidate Ernest J Pagels, Jr, for some reason considered a longshot.

We will talk a little bit about what has transpired in the last 18 months and would we count what has transpired into turning our country into a nation of slaves.
—Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R, MN), who never runs out of offend-o-juice.

Thank you, Scott Brown. When you're starving that it is the best time to go on a diet. You're already used to no food.
—Stephen Colbert, in response to Sen. Scott Brown's (R, MA) vote against extending unemployment benefits because of fiscal concerns.

He was really cute and I liked when he did his speeches.

We decided on high card. There was no disagreement between us. We shook hands before and after.
—Andrew Borasky, who won a Republican county commission primary by card draw last week. State law mandates that primary ties be broken by a lot draw.

He was kind of uncomfortably dancing.
—Matthew Jentgen, who watched John Edwards dance to "Rump Shaker" at the West End Wine bar in Durham in April.

We're struggling here.
—Rod Blagojevich, from an FBI wiretap. It was disclosed this week that him and his wife spent over $400k on clothing in 6 years. Blogojevich spent $1300 on ties in just one day.

I know it's really gonna upset a lot of gay men—I'm sure hundreds of 'em are gonna be jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge—but I ain't available. I ain't gay. Sorry.

At approximately 11:04 Eastern Standard Time, the American news media finally realized they kind of sucked.
—Jon Stewart on Michael Hastings' scoop of Stanley McChrystal.

And as a freelance reporter, Hastings would be considered a bigger risk to be given unfettered access, compared with a beat reporter, who would not risk burning bridges by publishing many of McChrystal’s remarks.
—Gordon Lubold and Carol E. Lee on Politico, admitting the American news media sucks.

Michael Hastings has never served his country the way McChrystal has.
—CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan, defensive that she's part of the American news media that sucks.

Was Rod Blagojevich unavailable as a character witness?
—Frank Rich on Hamid Karzai's brother Ahmed Wali Karzai's defense of McChrystal.

The ACLU has a long and proud history of defending the First Amendment, and while I haven’t seen polling on this, I’d bet that most Americans are fairly pro-First Amendment. But, thanks to a generation of conservative activism, the ACLU is now best known as “those guys who hate Christmas.”

—Sen. Al Franken (D, MN)

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Uh, heh, first of all, you mention the name Eric Odom. I had to pause and think, who is that?

—Rep. Charles Dijou (R, HI) when asked by Think Progress about the Tea Party leader who flew to Hawaii to help get him elected.

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Last week, Republicans came out full force to blame the BP oil spill cleanup on Barack Obama. Newt Gingrich went on Greta Van Susteren to say it was Obama's "dereliction of duty." Karl Rove wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal calling the disaster "Obama's Katrina," where he played footsie with his teeth again. Sarah Palin inferred that the President dragged his heels because he had been bought off by campaign donations from the oil companies. I think that one got a different reaction than Palin had anticipated.