Well, that was fast!  As you may know, I went to California for a week to enjoy lots of music and old friends.  Included in the trip came a nasty 24-hour stomach flu for both Alison (my daughter) and myself.  Although my 24 hours are long up, I’m still feeling the residual effects – and the lack of sleep from flying home on the red-eye last night, so this will be both late and brief!

Today on the show, I was joined by two people I got to see while in Los Angeles!  Howie Klein, who blogs at Down With Tyranny and runs the Blue America PAC (and its Senate page) with Digby and John Amato, guested in the first hour.

And being Tuesday, the second hour was a visit from The Political Carnival’s GottaLaff who brought us these stories this morning:

VIDEO- Newt Gingrich: “You can’t put a gun rack in a Volt.”

2008 VIDEO- Rick Santorum on Pres. Obama’s faith: “What I can tell you is, objectively, that faith was an avenue for power.”

VIDEO- Rick Santorum: Prenatal care leads to abortions

Rick Santorum: Liberals “border on disdain for the common man.”

AUDIO- Dana Loesch: I won a “big battle” with Keith Olbermann; trans-vaginal ultrasound = consensual sex.

VIDEO- Michele Bachmann: “The Republican party is extremely pro-woman.”

AZ co-chair of Mitt Romney campaign stepping down after allegations of a relationship with a male Mexican immigrant

Pat Buchanan: “My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end.”

More tomorrow…