Fox News Kremlin-watchers and tea-leaf readers take note. On Friday night, Fox’s second most popular host said something critical of the top elected official in the network’s own party. That’s right, Bill O’Reilly lambasted House Speaker John Boehner — for crying:

Oh, why do you bring this up again? Smoking. Listen, it’s bad habit, but I have it. It’s a legal product. I choose to smoke. Leave me alone.

— House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), in a Fox News Sunday interview, showing annoyance when host Chris Wallace asked, “Why don’t you stop smoking?”

Full GinsburgTo appear on all five of the major Sunday political talk shows in a single day. Named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who completed the rounds following her appointment to the Supreme Court. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton did a full Ginsburg yesterday, Jan. 30, 2011.

Heck, all they needed to do was to ask him, ‘Hey, Todd, have you been hanging out with hookers in Anchorage?’

— Polebrity Sarah Palin, quoted by the New York Daily News, about the “recent B.S. about Todd being all caught up in this prostitution ring in Anchorage.”

88%

Share of Republicans who say it’s important that Republican leaders in Congress take the Tea Party movement’s positions and objectives into account as they address the nation’s problems.

The video rejected in The Ruth Institute’s “Reel Love Challenge.” The contest asked for college students or young adults age 18 to 30 to answer the question, “What makes lifelong love possible?” Apparently it has to be man-lady lifelong love only.

It’s a tricky job, I’m sure I wouldn’t be any good at it.

— Incoming White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, talking about the job of press secretary on C-SPAN in 2006.

The Republicans want Romney to run.
They think his campaign would be fun.
Besides, the prediction
Is he’d win the election —
It says so in the Book of Mormon!

I can report that granny is safe.

— President Obama, quoted by The Hill, vigorously hitting back at GOP claims that the new health care law is “a job-crushing, granny-threatening, budget-busting monstrosity.”