I’m a fan of newspapers, and I hate to see them close, even the ones that are further to the left than I prefer. But I can’t say I like this rumored method of support:

“A source of mine called to say that Obama’s reached out to some newspaper publishers about giving papers a tax break in the stimulus package.”

Soren Dayton describes it, via Twitter: “Obama pays off his base: The media.”

Chip Saltsman’s best moment in the RNC Chairman debate last Monday was describing our current policy shift, in which winners and losers are set by the market, to a world where winners and losers are set by President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Majority Leader Reid.