Midday open thread

• Michigan voters: The Democratic speaker of the State House is prepared to cave to the anti-choice zealots and push a divisive anti-choice bill that will give Republicans a wedge issue to use against Dem candidates this fall.  

  Go to ProgressMichigan to learn how you can fight against the anti-choice zealots and stand up for the reproductive rights of women.

• The Clinton campaign distorts Marc Ambinder.
• Booman thinks that Pennsylvania's huge Democratic registration gains help Obama.
• You can really use statistics to say just about anything you want, as Poblano shows us.
• The kooks at the Washington Times argue that Obama equals Lamont.

  Like Mr. Obama, Mr. Lamont eagerly sought and received, the blessing of radically left organizations like MoveOn.Org and the Daily Kos. Like Mr. Obama, Mr. Lamont was a political neophyte with almost no relevant experience. A neophyte who, because of his ideological opposition to the war, was blindly embraced by much of the mainstream media in search of biased political champions who could inflict rhetorical wounds on the hated George W. Bush.

  Are they talking about the Ned Lamont that Connecticut voters now wish they had voted for? Too bad for the Moonie Times, voters won't have buyer's remorse with President Obama.

• Ed Rendell loves Farrakhan. I'm sure Hillary Clinton will get the vapors and distance herself from the governor, right?
• Damn, someone took a picture of my cloven hoof. And for the record, I have three tattoos.
• I don't think I ever would've expected Condi Rice endorsing gun control. And I _really_ don't think I ever would've expected Rice to mock President Bush like this.
• Where are McCain's medical records? They seem awful shy about releasing them...
• As soon as it's clear that Clinton has lost the popular vote, that metric will no longer matter, just like everything else that doesn't help her campaign.