Absent some sort of dramatic undertaking by the Ron Paul revolutionaries, Mitt Romney is expected to win the upcoming Texas primary, and in doing so, officially lock up the GOP nomination for president.
Being the man of the people that he is, Romney has decided to let one of his biggest fans join in on the celebration and rub shoulders with his new best friend.
A lucky donor will win an all-expenses-paid trip to one of the hotels that potential RNC keynote speaker/Vice President/Super PAC-man Donald Trump hasn't yet bankrupted, where they will dine on pizza using a fork and knife, be regaled with stories of President Obama's Kenyan birth, and learn the intricacies of Adobe Photoshop.
And if they're really lucky, they may even get fired.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D); Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA); Roundtable: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D), Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard Carly Fiorina, EJ Dionne (Washington Post) and David Brooks (New York Times).
Face the Nation: Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs; Former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie; Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN); Roundtable: Author Nancy Gibbs, Author Michael Duffy, Author Robert Merry and Author/Historian Douglas Brinkley.
This Week: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta; Roundtable: George Will (Washington Post); Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D), Liz Claman (Fox Business Network), Nia-Malika Henderson (Washington Post) and Ron Brownstein (National Journal).
Fox News Sunday: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); Archbishop of Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl; Roundtable: Brit Hume (Fox News), Jeff Zeleny (New York Times), Kimberly Strassel (Wall Street Journal) and Kristen Powers (Newsweek/Daily Beast).
State of the Union: Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani (9/11); DNC Chairwoman/Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL); Former Vice Chief of Staff of the US Army Gen. Peter Chiarelli (Ret.); Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA); Tim Tetz (American Legion); Paul Rieckhoff (Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America); Reliable Sources: Andy Cohen (Bravo); Roger Simon (Politico); Anne Kornblut (Washington Post); David Westin (Formerly of ABC News).
The Chris Matthews Show: Kasie Hunt (Associated Press); Helene Cooper (New York Times); Major Garrett (National Jornal); Joe Klein (TIME).
Fareed Zakaria GPS: Former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles; Former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-WY); Ross Douthat (New York Times); Chrystia Freeland (Reuters); Bill Keller (New York Times); Peggy Noonan (Wall Street Journal).
Up with Chris Hayes: Author Michelle Goldberg; Liliana Segura (The Nation); Columbia University Professor John McWhorter; Michael Brendan Dougherty (Business Insider); Mother of Private Derrick Kirkland (1987-2010) Mary Kirkland; Barry Scheck (Innocence Project); Active Duty Marine Lt. Col. Steve Beck.
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: an interview with Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer (preview); a report on Operation Proper Exit, which takes wounded warriors back to the battlefield in an effort to provide closure; and, a report on five sets of brothers in the Marine Reserves who fought for the right to be on the front lines of combat in Afghanistan with their siblings.
On Comedy Central...
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were off again this week, so there are no new videos to share.
Instead, here's Jon's examination of Mitt Romney's Mormon problem.
The Daily Show
Monday: Pre-empted
Tuesday: First Lady Michelle Obama
Wednesday: Dan Rather (HDNet)
Thursday: Actor Jim Parsons
And Stephen's tribute to recently deceased children's book author Maurice Sendak.
The Colbert Report
Monday: Pre-empted
Tuesday: Actress Charlize Theron
Wednesday: Actor Alan Alda
Thursday: Author Jack Hitt
Elsewhere...
"Joe the Plumber" took issue with Vice President Joe Biden's claim that being a corporate raider makes you no better prepared to be president than being a plumber does.
"It was insulting … for Joe Biden to sit there and say who can be president and who not, who's qualified and who isn’t, is just asinine, especially with the track record they left behind them," Wuzelbacher told Fox News. "If I was this administration or Joe Biden himself I wouldn’t want anyone looking at my record and sitting there talking about how great we are and you should be sitting down there."
"The middle class workers or blue collar workers, we can do it, and, this election cycle we’re going to do it," he said. "People are going to see it happen and it's going to be great, so they’re going to be eating those words."
Imagine how pissed "Joe" would've been if he were actually a plumber.
Meanwhile...
The denizens of the sewer known as Breitbart.com used The Math to conclusively determine that President Obama may be dumber than former President Bush.
President Barack Obama is hailed by his supporters and the mainstream media as one of the most brilliant men ever to hold the office. However, his refusal to release his academic records, his admitted deficiencies as a student, and his frequent factual errors–even in his chosen field of constitutional law–have cast doubt upon his supposed genius. Now, Breitbart News has established that Obama’s grades and Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores may have been even lower than those of his supposedly less capable predecessor, George W. Bush. [...]
If Obama’s SAT scores were near the average of the transfer students entering Columbia in the fall of 1981, he would have scored significantly lower than George W. Bush, whose combined math and verbal scores were 1206 out of a possible 1600 points (as revealed by the New Yorker in 1999).
And, in tangentially-related news...
A study of Congressional speeches by The Sunlight Foundation found that since 2005, the average grade level at which members of Congress speak has fallen by almost a full grade.
"Particularly among the newest members of Congress, as you move out from the center and toward either end of the political spectrum, the grade level goes down, and that pattern is particularly pronounced on the right," he says.
Of the 10 members speaking at the lowest grade level, all but two are freshmen, and every one is a Republican. For the record, though, Drutman isn't passing judgment about whether speaking at a lower grade level is a good thing or a bad thing.
Stupid is as stupid votes.
- Trix