Political suicide is painless ...

TPM's Josh Marshall: Mike Huckabee won the Iowa Caucuses last time. His Iowa political director just signed on with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN). Though Bachmann is "the dearest aspirations of comedians around the country," she isn't going to win the Republican presidential nominee. "But could she win Iowa? I don't have any question she could. And if she did, wouldn't that basically end the campaign of her fellow Minnesotan Tim Pawlenty?" Mercy. So, how did that theme song for TV's M.A.S.H go again? ... "Through early morning fog I see, visions of the things to be, the pains that are withheld for me, I realize and I can see ... [REFRAIN]: that suicide is painless, it brings on many changes ..." Hah!