Two quips from the Tuesday edition of the Morning Jolt:

How’s Blumenthal going to “close off” this story? (Besides resigning, obviously.) There’s a clip right there on the New York Times’ web site showing him getting a little choked up as he talks tor a group of veterans about “when I served in Vietnam.” You don’t make this sort of thing go away by getting a whole bunch of loyal friends who are veterans around you on the stage and invoking the words “I’m being swift-boated” over and over again.

And…

The Greek banking system and the oil rig in the Gulf feel like similar crises right now: “Oh, it’s terrible, and they have no idea how to fix it…Wait, all of the wise men have gotten together and they think they have a solution… Wait, that solution failed…. Now it’s worse than ever, and threatens everybody over a great area…. No, wait, it’s been a day or two and now it doesn’t seem so bad…. no, wait, they just learned something that makes it ten times worse than they thought…. now it’s going to fall out of the headlines…”