And the Election's Only a Year Away

* Everything's been so much better ever since the influence of money was removed from the American electoral process. [ NYT , Roll Call ]

* Barred from discussion at the new Middle East peace talks: peace. [ NYT ]

* Reporters, boring themselves, may just pick a new front-runner. [ WP ]

* You might think that Hillary is like, kind of terrifying, but that's really just your imagination. [ WP ]

* What she isn't, though, is liberal, and who does she have to kill around here to prove it? [ Politico ]

* Fred Thompson's lazy campaign is demonstrating calculated non-laziness, only it's about six months too late. [ LAT ]

* John McCain will chase the presidency to the gates of Hell. In fact, maybe he already has. [ The Hill ]

* If Hillary were on 24 she would have been tortured, stabbed, shot and blown up a long, long time ago. [ WT ]