* Reliable Source: HBO makes Nathans stop showing the Sopranos... President no longer influential, according to Time. [WP]

* Yeas and Nays: National Taxpayers Union still bitching about everyone. [Examiner]

* Shenanigans: The debate was apparently 100% free of gossip. [Politico]

* The Sleuth:Mitt Romney keeps threatening to veto budgets, despite the fact that the President just doesn't do that. [WP]