Gingrich Concedes Romney Wasn't Honest About His Tax Plan During Debate  —  This morning on Meet The Press, Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs confronted Newt Gingrich on a fundamental inconsistency in Romney's description of his tax plan.  During the primary debates, Romney insisted …

Mary Matalin Calls Paul Krugman A ‘Liar’ For Telling The Truth  —  During a roundtable discussion on George Stephanoupolos' This Week Sunday morning, GOP political consultant Mary Matalin got into a heated exchange with Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, calling him a “liar” …

Axelrod: Obama ‘taken aback by the brazenness’ of Romney's debate performance  —  Obama senior campaign adviser David Axelrod on Sunday said Republican Mitt Romney delivered a “very good performance” at the first presidential debate that was “completely un-rooted in fact” and the president was …

Biden Takes 6 Days Off Campaign Trail  —  With just about a month until Election Day, Vice President Joe Biden is in the middle of taking nearly a week off the campaign trail.  He will return to doing campaign events on Thursday, when he will debate Rep. Paul Ryan in the vice presidential debate.

Liberals fret: Is Obama bored?  Does he want a second term?  Maybe not.  —  There's no doubt President Obama's liberal supporters are worried by his lackluster performance in the Denver debate.  “Everyone is in shock,” one show-business liberal told the Hollywood reporter.  “No one can understand what happened.”

Big Bird Responds To Mitt Romney On SNL  —  With Mitt Romney's PBS-Big Bird slam a ripe source for comedy this week, who better to add to the mockery than the Sesame Street character himself?  Big Bird showed up on Weekend Update opposite Seth Meyers to react to his newfound celebrity.

Capitol Assets: Congress's wealthiest mostly shielded from effects of deep recession  —  If you could peer deeply into how the 535 members of Congress handle their money, what would you find?  —  You would see a diversity of investment strategies and results, from those who put their money into riskier …

Real Live Voter Fraud  —  Jaded by relentless GOP vote suppression efforts directed towards phantom voter impersonators, it's easy to forget that real fraud actually happens.  Today Adam Liptak of the New York Times surveys some recent problems with absentee ballots, which now make up twenty percent of all votes.

Two Presidents, Smoking and Scheming  —  AFTER the debate, I was talking to Aaron Sorkin, who was a little down.  Or, as he put it, “nonverbal, shouting incoherently at a squirrel, angrier than when the Jets lost to the 49ers last Sunday without ever really being on the field.”

Gas Prices Rise Again Overnight in California  —  Gasoline prices in California rose again on Sunday after a series of refinery disruptions caused fuel shortages that experts say could continue to burden motorists into next week.  —  The average price of regular gasoline in California jumped …

Ohio Senate: Brown (D) 46%, Mandel (R) 46%  —  The U.S. Senate race in Ohio is now a tie.  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Ohio Voters finds incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown and his Republican challenger Josh Mandel each earning 46% support.