Interesting Monday morning for a change. Here’s some breakfast leftovers:

* Just saw Suze Orman emphatically endorse Obama on The View. Could be one of the more influential endorsements we’ll see for a while.

* So does Newsweek‘s “gaylo” adorning the image of “the first gay president” trumps Time‘s cover image of woman breastfeeding her very large three-year-old? Hard to say, but pretty sure Washington Monthly won’t be entering this particular sweepstakes.

* Kruman suggests JP Morgan fiasco illustrates basic need for bank regulation. Shame he has to make the case.

* Steve King complains “left wing of the Republican Party” pushing for bipartisanship in Congress. Didn’t know conservatives took hallucinogenic drugs.

* Dan Gilgoff examines DC’s “Mormon Mafia” of highly-placed LDS members.

And in non-political news:

* Legendary session musician Donald “Duck” Dunn dies at 70.

Back very shortly.

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Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York Magazine; a longtime contributor to the Washington Monthly; and a former policy adviser to three governors and a U.S. senator from his home state of Georgia.