Midday open thread

• Clinton is bragging about her support from Karl Rove. Does she honestly think that Karl Rove is being honest here? And if so, we're supposed to continue trusting her judgment?
• The three campaigns have until midnight tonight to release their April fundraising numbers. And they're all apparently holding out until the last second.
• Gallup should stop wasting its money tracking the Clinton/Obama race. Rasmussen did, and no one cared.
• Who would give to the Clinton campaign these days?

  Some big donors have told her campaign that it's getting tough to raise more money. "It's very difficult to get any new major donors at this point," said one important backer. "There will be no more million-dollar events."

• OR-Sen: Primaries are good!, Oregon edition.
• McCain doesn't have his right-flank all sewn up.

  That sound you hear is rumbling among unhappy social conservatives on the Republican Party’s right wing; it spells trouble not just for President Bush, but for the party’s presumptive presidential candidate, John McCain.

  At a time when Sen. McCain badly needs to consolidate the support of the Republican base before the general-election campaign begins in earnest, leaders of the party’s social conservatives are letting it be known—quietly, for now—that they aren’t happy with the way their desires are being met.

  The immediate target of their grumbling is Mr. Bush, but the message to Sen. McCain is clear: "You need us in the fall, not just those independent voters everybody wants you to spend your time courting."

  What are these groups upset about? Less funding for abstinence-only programs:

  Many social conservatives believe that abstinence training has led to a drop in teen pregnancies and contributed to a decline in abortion rates.

  Of course, they also believe that dinosaurs roamed the earth 6,000 years ago and that global warming doesn't exist and that lower taxes would eliminate the federal deficits and debt and all manners of other crazy shit wholly at odds with reality.

  But this one? It's particularly blind to reality.

  Experts from the American Public Health Association and U.S. Institute of Medicine testified that scientific studies have not found that abstinence-only teaching works to cut pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases or the age when sexual activity begins.

  The American Psychological Association and American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists also issued statements to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform criticizing the abstinence-only programs.

• Mocking NRO. It's almost always too easy.
• John Cole:

  5.) Bill Kristol, still dumb as a sack of hammers. I am noticing a trend here. Kristol claims government is inefficient, ineffective, and bad, gets a bunch of his buddies elected, and proves it. He also rails against the MSM, claims they can’t get their facts straight, gets a job at the NY Times, and proves it.