++Lindsey Graham vows to filibuster all nominees for anything until the Administration produces the survivors of the attack in Benghazi as witnesses. The State Department has refused.
++Mitch McConnell has refused to endorse the McConnell rule, which Democrats proposed naming after him. He proposed during the fiscal cliff crisis to allow the President to unilaterally lift the debt ceiling unless Congress votes no. Today, he opposed his own suggestion.
++Marco Rubio who was instrumental in crafting the comprehensive immigration reform bill that passed the Senate has come out against his own bill, urging the House not to pass it.
++Mike Enzi will not retreat from his statement he is a fishing buddy with Dick Cheney, who says he isn't.
++Charlie Cook today explains in the National Journal why 2014 is a make or break year for the Republicans to win the Senate. Next time 22 GOP Senators will have to defend and only 10 Democrats.
++Medicaid expansion signups for Obamacare are going like gangbusters, even in states like New Mexico.
++More people are reporting they are getting through on Healthcare.com and signing up for Obamacare. Informally, about 724,000 have enrolled and completed the process to date.
++John Kasich had a moment of conscience saying openly that "There seems to be a war against the poor" in America. He said this as he opened Ohio to Medicaid expansion.
++Bernie Sanders has toured the South and opines about a possible Presidential bid. At least, he wants a real progressive in the race.
++Foodstamps are supposed to end on November 1. The conference committee on the Farm Bill is fighting to keep more SNAP funding after the Right cut over $4 billion per year.
++The ballooning size of the Federal Government makes the government the same size as ....1967.
++Michael Bloomberg is not plunking down coin on Virginia's Attorney General race, which is still too close to call and the Republican has as extreme politics as the Cooch. Disapproval rate of the Virginia Republican Party is at 68%.
++Both Texas and Oklahoma's Supreme Courts ruled their anti-abortion laws are unconstitutional.
++Hill watchers believe there will be no grand bargain and that, despite Gene Sperling's comments at the American Progress confab,there will be no cuts to Social Security and Medicare. The OMB released a report this past week that showed extending Medicare two years would not save any significant money. Social Security right now will pay for Baby Boomers and General Xers.
++The Senate is set to take up ENDA in this session with bipartisan support.
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