“We shouldn’t dread the debt limit,” Boehner said at the Peter G. Peterson Fiscal Summit. “We should welcome it. It’s an action-forcing event in a town that has become infamous for inaction.”

Neither man won. Instead, Nebraska’s GOP nominee this fall will be state Rep. Deb Fischer, who surged in the past few weeks with little money or help. She’ll be the one to take on former senator Bob Kerrey (D).

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) and Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D) have managed to work together, at least to produce a parody that is being widely circulated on the Internet.

“When you add up his policies, this president has increased the national debt by five trillion dollars.”

— Mitt Romney, in Des Moines, May 15, 2012

The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act (S. 1910) is scheduled to go before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for a vote.

Yet the little-known state senator emerged victorious over both the establishment-favored candidate and a favorite of the tea party — both of whom, we should note, are statewide elected officials.

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We’ve written before on this blog about how the tea party label has been misappropriated to cover all kinds of Republicans who won in 2010. While many latched onto the label or simply let others define them as such, the label wasn’t a great fit for many of them.

Norquist, who is best known for his anti-tax pledge signed by the overwhelming majority of congressional Republicans, argues that the Louisiana governor is the best choice for Romney because he “has already implemented the sort of bold reforms at the state level that are now desperately needed at the federal level,” on issues including education and energy.

Today’s Trail Mix takes a look at why the tiny buy was worth it:

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) is leading a group taking off Friday for a week in Taiwan and South Korea, looking at three days in Seoul and three in Taipei.

It is the story of William Henderson Foote, a federal law enforcement officer who was the victim of an 1883 lynch mob. His murder was ignored in his agency then, but the government now is honoring his memory.

But before they do, one key player, French President Francois Hollande, will stop by the White House to introduce himself to President Obama.