Day's End Round-Up

The resignation of another lobbyist from John McCain

Bloggers wish Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) well and hope for a speedy recovery after he was hospitalized today for what appears to have been a seizure. They are less sympathetic towards Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) for saying John McCain

Mike Huckabee joking about Barack Obama getting shot at outrages bloggers. Speculation that John Edwards will be Obama

A California Supreme Court ruling Thursday that a state law banning gay marriage is unconstitutional will rally conservatives this fall, bloggers predict, while sniping among House members didn

Former presidential contender John Edwards

Separate mailings that links one House candidate to the KKK and accuses another of impregnating a woman in 2000 and then paying for an abortion, top the bloggers this afternoon. Meanwhile even some Barack Obama supporters think the enthusiasm of the other campaign backers is going a little far.

With the results of tonight

Reports that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee tops John McCain's short list for vice president have sent some conservatives into a tailspin, while a potential Ron Paul revolution actually happening at the GOP convention has liberal bloggers ecstatic. And Sen. Joe Lieberman's emergence as an attack dog for McCain has liberals lumping the Connecticut Democratic in with a third Bush term.

Adding Huckabee might sound like a good idea, but a centrist McCain-Huckabee ticket would be very bad news for the conservatives, predicts Kathryn Jean Lopez. Allahpundit meanwhile isn

Liberal bloggers are buzzing this Mother's Day Sunday over the resignation of John Goodyear, the man John McCain's campaign picked to head the GOP convention, after Newsweek outed the lobbyist's ties to Myanmar's military junta. Bloggers are also looking ahead to a Barack Obama-John McCain match up and a promise made today by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to hold hearings on the Pentagon's coordinated use of retired military officials to push the Defense Department's agenda.

The "personal responsibility" McCain

Barack Obama needs some down time after claiming he visited 57 states, bloggers advise. A determined Hilary Clinton pushing forward with superdelegates and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) recalling President Bush's tough guy comments on Iraq are also being discussed Saturday.

Obama's remark, made Friday in Oregon, that he has visited "57 states

A possible break in the uncommitted superdelegate dam toward Barack Obama has bloggers buzzing going into the weekend. Speculation over which Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee broke ranks on a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) vote as well as news that Rep. Vito Fossella (R-N.Y.) may resign in the next 72 hours is also driving conversation.

So far this Friday the superdelegate scorecard is 7-0 in favor of Obama, First Read reports. Obama is