The Excitement Builds

++Bishop Willard "Mitt" Romney will make an announcement at 11 about his presidential plans.

++In yesterday's Boston Globe there was a feature story on all the real estate Romney has bought since he lost in 2012. The suggestion is that he has a lot to sell if he is going to run for President.

++By last night, the Los Angeles Times reported that Romney was looking to sell his La Jolla house,which has the car elevator.

++Yesterday in Mississippi (remember when Reagan launched his campaign there?) he attacked Hillary Clinton as the defender of the rich and running for the wealthy, This time, if there is a this time, he will be running on waging a war against poverty.

++Two days ago,the Mormons announced their new LGBT policy--which is don't discriminate against gays but they shouldn't marry. Hmmm.

++President Obama at the last press conference said he had no comment on another Romney run. But yesterday,he took a swipe at Romney's sudden concern for the poor.

++Romney still hasn't released his taxes--even the full taxes for the year of his last run. Remember he only released a partial set--promising the full set later. There was no later.

++Meanwhile, this morning there is news that donors who backed Romney and staffers are moving over to Jeb Bush.

++Where is the dancing horse? The dancing horse was supposed to be part of Ann Romney's therapy for Ms. Which again raises the question I had about the last campaign. If you are richer than Midas, and are in your late 60s, and your wife has a serious illness, why would you do such a thing as run for President?

++Rupert Murdoch is pissed at Romney and Fox News has made this plain the last few weeks in various comments on Romney's proposed run. Rupert still believes Willard could have won. 

++Just an FYI, I still hear Republicans say this, even when confronted with the data from Sam Wang, Nate Silver, and a score of analysts who showed Romney was not in the game, even after the first debate.

++So if not Mitt, who is in his late 60s, why not the other guy from California--Jerry Brown, Governor of all America?

PS. Jos Marshall perhaps has the story of the morning. Apparently John Boehner's office released a statement that The Speaker himself told Israeli Ambassador Dermer not to inform President Obama of the invitation.