Today he suggested that those elected officials who are convicted of using their offices to abuse the public trust should lose their federal pensions.

This fits right into the “you mean, they don’t already” category. I thought this new Democratic Congress was going to weed out corruption and make the homegrown evildoers pay. Shouldn’t this be like priority #1?

Don’t take this as a partisan statement as I am not supporting a horse in this race on the blog, but way to go Mitt. Good idea!

On the Diane Rehm:

“In order to look tough, he’s undermined his ability to be tough,” Senator Joe Biden said, arguing that Obama’s rhetoric would hurt the U.S.’s ability to get the very same “actionable intelligence” that might prompt an Obama administration’s military incursion.

“It’s a well-intended notion he has, but it’s a very naïve way of thinking how you’re going to conduct foreign policy,” said Biden who yesterday said of Obama’s speech, “the way to deal with it is not to announce it, but to do it. The last thing you want to do is telegraph to the folks in Pakistan that we are about to violate - quote - ‘their sovereignty.’”

You can listen to the full interview online.

All eight of the democratic candidates are heading to the left-leaning YearlyKos conference in Chicago to court bloggers and harness the power of the Internet for their campaigns.

Plenty of sites are covering the event including of course Daily Kos and techPresident

The Associated Press is reporting on the dramatic change occurring in the McCain campaign. After big losses of both money and staff the Senator is now flying commercial, being driven in the cars of volunteers to and from events, carrying his own luggage and even missed a campaign event when his flight was delayed. It is a far cry from the early days of his campaign on the plush Straight Talk Express.

As the article points out, few people are writing him off believing this is the position McCain has always worked best in, that of the underdog.

Well this is sure to get some play. During an interview with the Associated Press Senator Barack Obama said he would not use nuclear weapons “in any circumstances.” Story at PR Wire and on Drudge