Teddy Partridge

Dave Weigel at the Washington Independent reports that Congressman Steve Israel has demanded an apology from his colleague, Michele Bachmann, for the Holocaust imagery used at her Tea-Party rally on Capitol Hill at which every member of the House GOP leadership spoke.

JAG Officer Tom Kenniff gets totalled pwned by Iraq Prisoner of War Shoshana Johnson. He really steps in it when he says to Ms Johnson, "I spent a year in Iraq, ma'm. Have you ever been to Iraq?" Look at her expression when she responds: "I'm a P.O.W.!"

OpenLeft reports that North Carolina's Larry Kissell, who raised $485,795 on ActBlue in his two campaigns for Congress, is now counted as a NO vote in the whip count for this Saturday's House vote on health care reform.

Who's next to be Scozzafava'd? Why, it's the popular & moderate Florida Governor, happily married (to a woman) Charlie Crist. The Club for Growth, anti-tax corporatist crusaders who drove Arlen Spectre from the GOP, have an ad ready to go on Florida television with their version of the 2006 Bush/Lieberman Kiss.

There's been lots of political and economic discussion about exchanges and bending the cost curve, but not a lot of real-world answers to some pretty basic questions about health care reform. Maybe you know these answers? Or maybe you'll have a chance to ask a Congresscritter the answers?

Marriage equality activists in New Jersey realize their window is closing on getting a bill passed and signed into law; incoming Governor Chris Christie opposes equality and says he won't sign a bill. What's next?

This morning on Morning Joe, the first three hours of "liberal" MSNBC's cablefest day, host and former Florida GOP Congressman Joe Scarborough allowed Michael Steele a "victory lap" despite the Republican blowout in NY23 and CA10, the only place where candidates were elected who'll have a vote on Barack Obama's health care reform.

You're forgiven for not knowing that the gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, as well as the clusterFOX Congressional race in NY-23 and referenda on stripping same-sex marriage rights in Maine (NO!) and Washington (YES!) are not the only elections today: even the Washington Post neglected to mention the Congressional election in California's Tenth District (East Bay) in its Sunday roundup. But this election is important. John Nichols at The Nation tells why.

Harry Reid tells inside-the-Beltway liberals that he has Joe's vote and they should stop worrying about the health care reform vote in the Senate. Outsiders not so trusting.

In an emailed letter to supporters Sunday afternoon, reprinted in its entirety in her hometown paper, Dede Scozzafava, the GOP candidate for Congress in New York's far-north 23rd district who suspended her campaign yesterday in the face of a national-conservative and "home-grown" tea-party onslaught, endorsed Democrat Bill Owens.