The Anti-Rachel Blogger Must Have Been Maureen Dowd

++Coming after her failed prediction that Joe Biden would run, Maureen today goes after Hillary as playing the martyr par excellence at the hearing and not showing much concern for Ambassador Stevens.

++Ross Douhat who reminds us that he rightfully predicted Mitt Romney as the GOP nominee in 2012 when no one else did now predicts---drumroll--Marco Rubio. He thinks his turnabout on immigration policy is only an inconvenient problem with the base. The Donald says Rubio sweats like a pig.

++JEB! reminds us he has alot of "cool things he could do rather than be President". The whole family is bunkered down in Houston this weekend to figure out what's wrong with his campaign and how to turn it around. John Sunnunu says he doesn't understand the GOP electorate anymore. "It doesn't respond to the same things as the past."

++Katy Perry in a Hillary Logo dress wooed the Iowa crowd and Bill gave a barn-burner of a speech about his wife. The Jefferson-Jackson dinner highlighted all three Democratic hopefuls.

++The Guardian printed a nice color photo of Hillary's Alexandria's Rally for Hillary with our governor TMac. 

++Univision was kicked out of a Donald rally in Florida and a pro-immigrant protestor was beaten up.

++This week we can look forward to the Third GOP debate. Yippee!

++I recommend the New Yorker piece on Gloria Steinem ,especially the sections on the different generations of feminists and their differences. I agree with Gloria against the opinions of the younger set that sex workers are not doing it from their free will. 

++I also strongly recommend the article--soon to be two--in the New York Review of Books about President Obama interviewing Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead,on politics and the Christian faith. The Daily Beast has their own interview with Robinson about the conversations she has had with President Obama. Marilynne Robinson said he was the most "idealistic" man she has ever met and would be a terrific theologian. In the New York Review Of Books, I sided with Robinson's rather bleak,protestant view of the nature of humankind while President Obama came across as too trusting and wishing for the good despite evidence to the contrary.  Terrific reads. 

++And yes, we will sorely miss President Obama when he goes. An amazing intellect.