The Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse’s office because, once again, they glued their balls to their thighs. – Jon Stewart The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Mass Backwards www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis …

How do you start your morning? Here are a few of our faves with today’s highlights: Chris Cillizza’s Morning Fix Polling shows Democrats losing health care PR fight Democrats are losing the public relations fight over the health care overhaul Mike Allen’s Politico Playbook TIME Person of the Year 2009 …

The Fix: Why Joe Lieberman (still) rules the political world

Does Chris Cillizza have all of these retirement stories already teed up? Man, he’s fast. The Fix: Bart Gordon to Retire Tennessee Rep. Bart Gordon will not seek re-election in 2010, becoming the fourth Democrat sitting in a swing district to retire in the last several weeks. UPDATE : Josh …

Things done changed. Chris Cillizza: Friday Governors Line: Change is the new normal It’s been nearly two months since our last governor’s Line and to quote the Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls) things done changed. See, politics can be fun.

Are you not into the Monday Night Football game tonight between Green Bay and Baltimore? Would you rather listen to Arcade Fire or discuss politics instead of watch sports? Are you looking for a good reason to grab a beer after work today? We’ve got your fix. Go check out …

Chris Cillizza: Dunn leaving White House, Pfeiffer takes over

WaPo: The Final: The Best State Political Reporters [who made the list?] Big congrats go out to all of the state political reporters that Chris Cillizza just made Famous today.

Coach Mike Gundy Outraged By Meg Whitman’s 28 Years Of Not Voting H/T – The Fix

Chris Frates and the cool kids read Jezebel, Randy Barrett doesn’t like the DC who’s-who blather, Daniel de Vise is unimpressed by lawmakers’ Tweets, Christina Bellantoni left the Washington Times to join Josh Marshall at TalkingPointsMemo, Texas Republic celebrated winning the House Softball league,  thankfully Christopher Columbus did not share the same drive …

We hardly knew you. So the WaPo’s Mouthpiece Theater wasn’t a hit, so what? Chris Cillizza and Dana Milbank were trying something different – and in these times, you have to. The Fix was nice enough to let his readers and fans know of the changes. The Fix: A Word …

Genius.

Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza, both reporters for the Washington Post, recently had their latest Mouthpiece Theater video yanked from he intertubes. [WaPo yanked it] Mouthpiece Theater is a satirical look back on the week’s political news.  This particular episode featured a clip about Obama’s Beer Summit. On the Friday …

9:00 am: the Fix says politicians should not to Twitter. 4:30pm: the Fix says he hopes politicians continue to Twitter. What will tonight bring?

How many Capitol Hill press flacks that despise Twitter, will forward Chris Cillizza’s latest column to their boss? SUBJECT: Twitter is not your friend. No doubt any number of your colleagues have urged you to begin Twittering — sending your thoughts on life, the universe and everything out to the …