Midday Open Thread

• NH Senator John Sununu thinks net neutrality is dangerous.
• New Mexico GOP Senator-wannabees Heather Wilson and Steve Pearce continue to roll out the "I'm more conservative than you" ads.  Heather Wilson has released her first ad a couple of days ago:

  "Why is Steve Pearce running a negative campaign?" the ad's narrator asks. "Because on important issues, he's wrong. Steve Pearce voted against adding 3,000 border guards to secure our border. And when Democrats tried to cut funding for the troops and require early withdrawal, Steve Pearce didn't vote."

  The ad goes on to tout Wilson as the "commonsense conservative who can win in November."

• More NM Senate race news, from our side of the political fence:

  Senate candidate and U.S. Rep Tom Udall, D-N.M., has joined with U.S. Senate candidate Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., in New Hampshire to create a joint fundraising committee called New Hampshire/New Mexico Victory 2008 according to CQ Politics.

  Udall and Shaheen are also both part of the three Senate seats a coalition of environmental groups are targeting to help put pro-environment candidates in office.  The third is the Colorado Senate race with Udall's cousing, Mark Udall, D-C.O.

• For all you Donna Edwards fans, here's some news from Maryland:

  Democratic Party leaders in Montgomery and Prince George's counties have chosen lawyer Donna Edwards as their candidate for a special election to fill the remaining six months of Rep. Albert R. Wynn's term.

  Edwards had defeated Wynn in the February primary. She is scheduled to face Republican Peter James in the November election for the 4th District seat.

• Bush is definitely Commander-in-Chief of stupid jokes, but at least Craig Ferguson was mildly entertaining at Bush's last White House Correspondents' Dinner:

  Scottish-born Mr Ferguson asked Mr Bush what he was planning to do after leaving office, suggesting: "You could look for a job with more vacation time."

  The president has been criticised for the amount of time he has spent away from the White House during his presidency.

  Vice-President Dick Cheney, Mr Ferguson said, "is already moving out of his residence. It takes longer than you think to pack up an entire dungeon".

• And finally, some history: on this day in 1945, Russian and American troops literally joined hands at the River Elbe in Germany.