Another Snack Break

+ If you haven't already, it's time to shed the notion that Mitt Romney is some sort of moderating influence in the GOP. The Boston Globe reports that Romney plans to speak in New Hampshire in favor of authoritarian, job-killing "right-to-work" laws. But I guess that's to be expected from a guy who made his living shipping jobs to China. Not a good man.

+ Here's another story that highlights that America truly is better off now than in 2008: The Labor Department said today that employers added 117,000 jobs last month - an unexpectedly bright report. Romney's not President, you see.

+ The FAA was shut down a couple weeks ago because of a Republican tantrum. The GOP got mad when Democrats refused to support a right-wing measure that would have made union representation elections operate under undemocratic guidelines. Because of the Republicans' politically retaliatory shutdown, the FAA also could not collect taxes on airline tickets - depriving the government of $200,000,000 that could have been used to put towards the debt crisis. This was also a backdoor bailout for airlines, because airlines charged the tax and simply pocketed it. But now, the teagaggers have been outmaneuvered: President Obama has just signed a bill to put the FAA back to work.