With That Said ...

Sometimes I think these guys actually want Obama to win:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry capped off his first full day of campaigning in Iowa on Monday by suggesting that if the Federal Reserve prints more money between now and November 2012 it would be akin to an act of treason. 

"If this guy prints more money between now and the election," Perry said, "I don't know what y'all would do to him in Iowa, but we -- we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treacherous -- or treasonous in my opinion."

It's almost as if Obama has this mutant power to compel these guys into charging, full steam, into a wall of spikes.

Fallows has more.