The moderators are off their game tonight, as well. Cooper seems lost for a second, stumbling until he throws a question to another moderator.

Janet Hook (Cook?) of the L.A Times asks more or less the same question we saw last week about the tax rebates.

Huckabee cites a Heritage Foundation study saying tax rebates don’t stimulate the economy as well as people hope. Calls for more highway spending.

Huckabee makes light of his own pandering, pointing out that in Miami he wanted to add two lanes to I-95, and he now, speaking in California, wants to expand a West Coast highway.

Did Romney just call the “Big Dig” Boston highway project “the most expensive car wash in America”? Huh?

Ron Paul laments that we “pay money to blow up bridges overseas, and then we spend to rebuild them.”

UPDATE: From a reader: Ah. “Big Dig is world’s most expensive car wash. It’s a submarine tunnel, and it leaks.”