“Former gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid’s campaign manager oversaw an operation last summer and fall that first erected an overall PAC that could take unlimited contributions and then created mini-PACS that would only exist temporarily to funnel that money back to the Reid campaign, emails I have obtained show.” [Las Vegas Sun, via Political Wire]

[Business Insider]

Instant Update: Congratulations to the Yes Men!

“Newly released Federal Aviation Administration documents and audiotapes shed a scary new light on a bizarre incident late last year during which U.S. Senator James Inhofe landed his Cessna on a closed runway at a south Texas airport, scattering construction workers who ran for their lives as the politician’s plane hopscotched over them and six vehicles.” [Smoking Gun, via Political Wire]

Wonderfully Creepy Sculptures Carved From Bananas [Laughing Squid]

[HuffPo, via Sully]

Let’s start today’s Poll Roundup (Note: Not a regular feature) with CNN:

Donald Trump is now tied with Mike Huckabee for first place when Republicans are asked who they support for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, according to a new national poll.

Trump is not running, and Huckabee doesn’t seem to be. Next!

Public Policy Polling:

PPP’s newest national poll finds that after a little more than 3 months in charge House Republicans have fallen so far out of favor with the American public that it’s entirely possible Democrats could take control of the House back next year.

43% of voters think that House Republicans are doing a worse job now than the Democrats did, compared to only 36% who think the GOP has brought an improvement.

It’s quite an early call. Things change. For one thing, the economy had yet to go tits up in April 2007.

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Michele Bachmann, November 1, 2010:

Rep. Michele Bachmann plans to form and lead a “Constitutional Conservative Caucus” in the 112th Congress, she announced today — in addition to continuing as the titular head of the Tea Party in the House.

Michele Bachmann, Monday:

“Something else that we can do to reinforce our pro-marriage, pro-life, pro-family agenda is to limit the subject-matter jurisdiction of the courts… At the federal level with what are called Article III courts, Article III of the United States Constitution, we can limit the subject matter that justices can rule on. We have it within our authority to decide what judges can rule on and what they can’t.”

Normally we’re inclined to point and laugh, but we have this creeping suspicion that Bachmann is moving from crazy to dangerous. Somebody please put her back in the Louie Gohmert box where she belongs.