Afternoon eats

a. Jim Geraghty has a killer preview of McDonnell vs. Deeds.

b. Transcript of Newt's speech to the NRSC/NRCC.

c. Democrats. Double Standard. Women.

d. John Thune's in patience mode; so is Jon Kyl.

e. Chuck Norris endorses John Kasich.

f. Cantor reacts to Pay-As-You-Go.

g. The best Nessun Dorma (almost).



g. From "The forgotten dialect of the heart" by Jack Gilbert

I dream of lost
vocabularies that might express some of what
we no longer can.