“So should state workers be able to vote in state elections on matters that would benefit them directly? The same question goes for federal workers in federal elections. I’m not suggesting that public employees should be denied the right to vote, but that there are certain cases in which their stake in the matter may be too great.” [NRO]

“An article on Wednesday about the quarrels among President Obama’s national security advisers described in a new book by Bob Woodward referred incompletely to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s reported assessment of Richard C. Holbrooke, the president’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. While Mr. Biden is indeed quoted as calling Mr. Holbrooke ‘the most egotistical bastard I’ve ever met,’ he also is quoted saying that Mr. Holbrooke ‘may be the right guy for the job.'” [NYT]

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While “Anchor Babies” has become part of the National Shouting Match, Louie Gohmert toils alone in his attempt to get “Terror Tots” on the agenda. Here he engages Anderson Cooper in an enlightening conversation on the inability of FBI research to substantiate his claim.

Honestly, we think “Gaping Hole” would be a great John Adams opera.

Joe Scarborough: “So many Republicans tell me this is a guy that is not the hardest worker in the world. After 5 o’clock, 6 o’clock at night, he is disengaged at best. You can see him around town. He does not have, let’s say, the work hours of Newt Gingrich… Every Republican I talk to says John Boehner by 5 or 6 o’clock at night, you can see him at bars.” [ThinkProgress]

Playing a hunch, Razib Khan futzes with the General Social Survey and discovers what we all knew about the relationship between alcohol and awesomely smart people like us:

I was expecting it. That is, that the more intelligent, who scored high on a vocabulary test, would drink more than the dumb, who scored low.

New Englanders can drink the rest of us under the table, by the way. And Catholics? Don’t get them started.

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“Disclosure reports examined by TPMmuckraker show that Robert Donald, a Las Vegas retiree, was the sole contributor to the ‘Ensign for Senate’ committee between January and March. Donald gave two separate $25 contributions.” [TPM]

Ed Schultz on Robert Gibbs, Saturday:

“I told him he was full of shit is what I told him. And then he gave me the Dick Cheney f-bomb the same way Senator Leahy got it on the Senate floor. I told Robert Gibbs, I said, ‘I’m sorry you’re swearing at me, but I’m just trying to help you out.'”

Robert Gibbs on Ed Schultz, Monday:

Gibbs adds that he demanded Schultz tell him “why he’d tell his viewers something so completely and knowingly wrong in an attempt to get people to watch his show.”

Ed Schultz on Robert Gibbs, later Monday:

“no response. sorry.”

No, we don’t watch the Ed Show either. But if we’re not getting healthcare reform, at least we’re going to enjoy the pissing match.