John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Senate Democrats Achieve a New Standard of Irresponsibility  —  The Senate voted on five budgets today, at the insistence of Republican senators.  The result was revealing: no Senate Democrat voted in favor of any budget.  This is consistent, of course, with the fact that the Democrat-led Senate …

Charles Mahtesian / Associated Press:
Mary Kennedy, RFK Jr.'s estranged wife, found dead  —  NEW YORK - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s estranged wife, Mary Kennedy, who had fought drug and alcohol problems, was found dead in her home Wednesday.  —  Attorney Kerry Lawrence, who had represented her in a drunken-driving case, said he didn't know the cause of her death at age 52.

Brian Beutler / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC  —  National Coalition For Men Endorses GOP Version Of VAWA Bill  —  House GOP legislation to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act got an unexpected endorsement Tuesday — one that Democrats couldn't be happier with.  —  In a letter to all members, provided to TPM by Democratic aides …

Jim Romenesko:
[UPDATED] The joke that Jimmy Kimmel didn't tell at the WHCA dinner … UPDATE: Tapper confirms to Dylan Stableford that he helped Kimmel:  —  “I tried to help Jimmy with the temperature of the room.  And yes, I thought that joke would cause the room to turn against him …

Ryan J. Reilly / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMMuckraker  —  Batty ‘Birther’ Movie Divides Conspiracy Diehards  —  “Birthers” are flipping their tinfoil hats over a new film that claims President Barack Obama's father was not a Kenyan goat herder but rather a communist journalist nearly four decades older than his mother.  The problem?

Michal Shmulovich / The Times of Israel:
‘Arafat, Sharon must do more for peace’  —  Republican Representative Joe Pitts responds to a constituent with a rather outdated statement  —  I  —  t seems that Congressman Joe Pitts (R-PA) is a tad out of the loop on matters of Middle East peace.  If it were up to him …

New York Times:
Greece Teeters Ahead of New Vote  —  ATHENS — A day after Greece's president warned about the possibility of bank runs, Greek political leaders on Wednesday began forming a caretaker government before new elections next month that could lead the rudderless country to exit the euro …

Meghan Neal / NY Daily News:
Two Earths would be needed to sustain human activity by 2030, report finds  —  Report shows animal species fell 30%, wealthy countries do the most damage  —  A fishing boat lies on the dried-up bank of the Chaohu lake, the fifth largest freshwater lake in China, as water levels remain low in Chaohu …

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Huckabee demands fundraising letter pulled  —  Mike Huckabee is firmly denying that he approved a fundraising letter which refers to President Obama's advisers as “morally repugnant political whores.”  —  “This was a complete surprise to me,” Gov. Huckabee said in a statement to POLITICO, sent via a spokesperson.