Lots to report on…

Déjà vu all over again…nearly a decade ago, then state-senate candidate Katherine Harris (R) faced questions about $20,000 in illegal contributions she took from a Sarasota company. “I'm a victim here," she said. "There's absolutely no way I knew at the time or could have known,” she said at the time, reports the  Orlando Sentinel. Sound familiar?

Take one House majority leader, add more than $870,000 in campaign contributions from the securities and investment industry, and what kind of pension reform legislation do you get?

One that, in the words of The New York Times, “rather than strengthening the pension system, would actually weaken it, according to a little-noticed analysis by the government’s pension agency… The agency’s report projects that the House and Senate bills would lower corporate contributions to the already underfinanced pension system by $140 billion to $160 billion in the next three years.”

At least someone has limits on what they'd do for cash.

Movie star and pop singer Jessica Simpson, recently of Dukes of Hazard fame, refused to appear at a Republican fundraising event to meet with Bush. It's not clear why the fundraising event is the only time on Bush's schedule.

"It just feels wrong," one Simpson insider told Reuters on Wednesday, adding that the actress keeps her political views private. "She would love to meet the president and talk about Operation Smile … but she can't do it at a fund-raiser for the Republican Party."