The Chicago Sun Times reports that controversial former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) is on the short list to replace former Illinois GOP chairman Pat Brady.

“The Republican State Central Committee held an hour-long conference call last night and came back with these names as finalists. The list may grow before Friday’s deadline, with a handful of people who were nominated but could not be confirmed as interested. In all, 30 people were nominated and the nominations included other women — but numerous nominees said they were not interested.”

“I’m a damn good Republican and a good conservative Republican who
believes in things that I believe in. But that does not mean that I
would ever put party before my state or party before my country.”

— New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), in a forthcoming interview on NBC News.

Marc Ambinder notes that conservatives are outraged that no one is outraged over the Obama administration’s response to the Benghazi consulate attack last year.

“If everything is an outrage, then nothing is an outrage. When the rapper Common visited the White House, it was an ‘outrage’ to Sean Hannity. When union workers were called in for Sandy repair in New York, that was also ‘outrageous.’ Heck, Hannity found it awful and outrageous that Obama’s daughters would dare take a spring break during the sequester. I’m literally going down the Google search results for ‘Hannity’ and ‘outrage.’ Replace Hannity with the talk radio host of your choosing.”

“It’s the flip side to Bennett’s argument: If you judge motivations always, you will not really be able to truly apply the force of judgment to genuine moral deviations. Your shame supply will dwindle. ”