Quickies

• Rick Perry's Texas loves it some socialist infrastructure investment. Could you imagine what Republicans would call President Obama if he cheered on investing $50 million of federal tax money to build high speed rails in a very Patriotic, non-socialist loving state like Texas??? When someone tough like Rick Perry does it, those Freedom Loving Tea Baggers can't get enough of it. All of this goes right along with my assumptions going as far back as 2009 that tea bagging Republicans are not against socialism, Big Government or even spending money. They're just against Democrats doing it.

• Must read: "Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult"  ***Fox News Viewers Warning!!!  You Won't Like What He Says.

• The Liberal Media: “If it [Iraq war] had just gone well, it would have been a completely different reaction.” Ya think? 

• The latest WaPo/ABC News poll has the president at an all-time low, 43%.

• Right-wing billionaire and Republican money-man, Robert Koch, referred to President Obama as "Saddam Hussein" at a top secret Republican donor meeting in Colorado.  He said the GOP needs to wage "the mother of all wars" to oust the president and advised other donors to pony up to the cause.