Bill Clin­ton is a great ora­tor, and unques­tion­ably one of the great minds of our age. A full report will be up tomorrow.

Well-placed sources had not even heard the rumors about Steve Boy­da run­ning for Sen­ate, and sources that had heard the rumors were gen­er­al­ly dis­mis­sive of them. Peo­ple are either keep­ing their cards close to their chest, or Steve Kraske got burned. For what it’s worth, I think there are a num­ber of peo­ple who would be great com­pe­ti­tion for Pat Roberts, and it’s nice to see the threat of a chal­lenge remind­ing Pat Roberts to come back to Kansas now and then.

I inter­viewed Con­gress­man Moore. I would have tried to sit down with Con­gress­woman Boy­da, but she is with a Con­gres­sion­al del­e­ga­tion to Iraq. She arrived Fri­day morn­ing, and will undoubt­ed­ly have some inter­est­ing sto­ries to tell upon her return.

Con­gress­man Moore seems to be enjoy­ing him­self in the new Con­gress. There was a spring in his step as we talked, and he seemed espe­cial­ly excit­ed about being in the lead­er­ship of the Blue Dogs. On Iraq, he argued that the mil­i­tary mis­sion has been accom­plished for some time, and it’s time for a polit­i­cal solu­tion. He seems pret­ty con­fi­dent in Gen­er­al Petraeus, while express­ing hope that the Gen­er­al will push the Pres­i­dent for a shift from the mil­i­tary effort to a polit­i­cal one. 

TfK friend Don Weiss was hav­ing a great time, and looks for­ward to the April 3 JCCC elec­tions. Alas, it sounds like John Doll, who ran against Jer­ry Moran last time, will prob­a­bly not run again.