Liz Cheney (R) posted a $220 bond on a charge of making a false statement to procure a fishing license in Wyoming, the Jackson Hole News and Guide reports.

Cheney claimed she had been a resident of the state for 10 years, an error she later blamed on a clerk.

Nathan Gonazales compiles six buzz phrases “that almost always guarantee that the candidates uttering them are headed toward defeat.”

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) “game plan for the next three years is quietly taking shape: Win reelection next year in this purple state without moderating a record that has won many hearts in the conservative base; let the other GOP hopefuls get sullied by the mud pit of Congress and each other; then pounce in 2015,” Politico reports.

“That, in essence, is the outline of the likely presidential contender’s game plan that emerged from interviews with multiple people in his orbit.”

Former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), who resigned earlier this year to lead a conservative Washington-based think tank, occasionally voted against Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) “while in the Senate. But they rarely criticized each other in public,” the Columbia State reports.

But the political action committee that DeMint founded in 2008 released a radio ad in South Carolina criticizing Graham for recently saying that voting to defund the Affordable Care Act was “a bridge too far.”

NPR notes DeMint is on record saying that Republican unwilling to vote to defund Obamacare “need to be replaced.”

Donald Trump warned Gov. Chris Christie (R) against working with Stuart Stevens, the top strategist for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “I think he did a terrible job for Mitt Romney, absolutely terrible. That was a campaign that should have been won. I don’t know Stuart Stevens from a hole in the wall. I don’t know what he looks like. But I will say this, whoever ran that campaign, that is not the person I would want running my campaign if I were running.”

Howard Dean is visiting Iowa and New Hampshire this week, CNN reports.

Rick Klein: “There is no perceptible groundswell for Dean to
get the band back together, a decade after his campaign implosion. But
when Dean says — and yes, he’s said this — that he’d think about giving
it another go if other Democratic candidates aren’t speaking to the
progressive base, take him seriously. Whether Dean becomes the vehicle
or not, there’s room to President Obama’s — and Hillary Clinton’s — left
at the moment, on topics both foreign and domestic. Dean may not be the
vehicle to channel that energy, but his reception could in part dictate
what kind of vehicle will be in order.”