<b>Morning Chatter</b>

Quotes of the Day From the Road "Hurriedly shove things in bags, go to next location, discover what fell out of the bags. Repeat. #travel" -- Slate's Dave Weigel. "The crowd at this Romney-McCain event feels as sleepy as us folks in the press corps." -- NBC's Chuck Todd. "Hey, Cindy McCain in the house. #happieronthesidelines." -- PBS's Gwen Ifill. Eeks. 'Smells like burning' "Gingrich press bus is running power to a small city of laptops through one single cigarette lighter. Look out NH! #FITN" -- Yahoo! News's Chris Moody, who later added this minor detail: "Cig lighter being used to power entire bus of laptops on Newt Express smells like burning. Unplugging bc we don't want to die. #FITN" "The traveling press is rigging an elaborate series of converters, extension cords and power strips to get power on the bus #rovingfirehazard." --Politico national reporter Ginger Gibson. Whoa! Really? "Fact: I now have Internet in my home." -- Roll Call's HOH writer Neda Semnani. Breitbart's impassioned plea to Rupert "Hi, @rupertmurdoch! I'm over here! Notice me, please! I like you. You are smart! You have made great decisions! Hi, it's me Andrew! I clean pools, too, @rupertmurdoch. I can drive. Well, even! Love to fly in helis! [That's what people who have helicopters call them!]" -- BigGov Founder Andrew Brietbart to media mogul Rupert Murdoch. And this is the Murdoch. Writer has cold weather fashion advice "If you're walking around DC, and not wearing long underwear, you are losing badly." -- Marcus J. Moore, music journo for BBC and Washington City Paper. Dear Twitter, it's me, Eli "Hi @twitter. It's me, Eli. Let's try to make Thursday a day where we start to dial back some of the put down humor." -- Newsweek's Eli Lake. Dear Google, it's me, Derek "Dear @google, if I was interested in Gmail's 'new look' I would have chosen it. Give us a permanent choice or stop screwing up your shit." -- Townhall.com and BigGov columnist Derek Hunter. With an eye for fashion "Fashion disaster on CNN - Rick Santorum in a bright red shirt and black sweater vest." -- TWT Senior Opinion writer Emily Miller. And Daily Kos and Congress Matters Contributing Editor David Waldman writes, "Can't wait to have a President who'll sit around the White House wearing a sweater vest, and fretting about the sex people might be having." The Media Critic "Ed Schultz's insults are strange. '...an endorsement from 'Mr. Excitement' John McCain,' he says, rolling his eyes. Huh?" -- Gawker Political Editor Jim Newell. The inevitable Rob Corddry joke "I got no problem w/recess appts. But for a guy from The Daily Show? I just don't see that." -- TPM's Editor Josh Marshall in reference to President Obama appointing Richard Cordray as Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director. Punishing shoveler "Every time it snows, I shovel sidewalk for every house on my block except the one at the corner owned by people my age, who never shovel." -- WCP Managing Editor Mike Madden. Journo has outburst of sorts "My laughter outburst just violated by own Quiet Car orthodoxy. Devil made me do it. By which I mean @louisck" -- The Takeaway's Congressional Radio Correspondent Todd Zwillich.

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