Putting the "ick" in Ickes

AP: "Harold Ickes, a top adviser to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign who voted for Democratic Party rules that stripped Michigan and Florida of their delegates, now is arguing against the very penalty he helped pass. In a conference call Saturday, the longtime Democratic Party member contended the DNC should reconsider its tough sanctions on the two states, which held early contests in violation of party rules. He said millions of voters in Michigan and Florida would be otherwise disenfranchised — before acknowledging moments later that he had favored the sanctions."

Meanwhile, adding a new chapter in the long history of candidates pandering to voters on gun rights, did you know that Hillary Clinton is a hunter herself? Clinton told an audience in Wisconsin she supported gun rights, two days after a student opened fire on the campus of Northern Illinois University, killing five before turning the gun on himself. "I've gone hunting," she said, according to AP. "I know you may not believe it, but it's true. My father taught us to shoot." Clinton told reporters later she had once shot a duck in Arkansas, along with "a lot of tin cans, targets and some skeet."