Heeeeere’s Antonin, in a faked photograph that makes it appear he wears nothing beneath his judicial robe but black socks and garters.

This is an election year when pretty much everything should be going the GOP’s way.

A Democratic president is facing the worst reelection environment in a generation. The conservative base is fired up to defeat him and should be riding high after securing the largest GOP House majority since the 1940s. Looser campaign finance restrictions have unleashed the ability of the party’s wealthiest donors to spend unlimited amounts.

Conventional wisdom often has it that Romney’s position shifts are a known quantity from his 2008 run — they are “baked into the cake,” so opposition research and negative ads are unlikely to change voters’ perceptions much. This survey suggests otherwise.

The GOP presidential candidate has long had an uneasy relationship with the mainstream conservative press in general and National Review in particular, and he will likely dismiss the editorial as “establishment” meddling.

Reports the Seattle Times:

Mitt Romney is holding an evening rally in Mesa, Ariz., ahead of the Feb. 28 primary there. Four years ago, Romney lost the state to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who took 47 percent to Romney’s 35 percent. But this time around, the Romney camp is confident about the state, which awards 29 delegates.

While the first month-plus of the GOP contest has been handled mostly one state at a time and has been dominated by some of the smaller states in the union, the next phase brings the race into bigger states holding their contests on the same day as one another.

The company, Credit Mobilier, hoped to enrich lawmakers and protect the company from damaging legislation, documents show.

Officials announced plans last month to close the USDA Child Development Center at 14th St. NW in May. The General Services Administration later pushed back the closing date to September after hearing from panicked parents.

Mandatory and discretionary federal transportation funding would climb about 2 percent, or by $1.4 billion from the previous year, with major investments in highways and public transportation.

In 2011, 33 members of Congress sent more than $300 million toward such projects, according to a recent Washington Post investigation.

In a desperate attempt to outgrow his lifelong association as the Boy Wonder of Hogwarts Academy, Daniel Radcliffe has been trying desperately to revamp his  image lately. But he’s rapidly becoming too cool for school.

Six months later, the congressman requested millions of dollars to clean up Puget Sound — a vital but polluted system of waterways in his home state of Washington, according to White House records.