The popular “Texts From Hillary” meme now has the stamp of approval from Madame Secretary herself! Adam Smith, who created the Tumblr with Stacy Lambe, tweeted that he met Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and that she “loves the site.” He even has proof: a photo signed by “Hillz.”

Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich appeared on Fox News Sunday today, and he was equally candid and honest about his chances of getting the GOP nomination at this point, as well as the tough financial situation he finds himself in currently with the campaign. Brit Hume asked Gingrich if it looks like they might go broke, but Gingrich denied that, saying whatever money troubles he has are not that bad.

Taking social media by storm late this week is Texts From Hillary, a Tumblr featuring various random people texting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, juxtaposed with witty captions. According to Facebook API code, the blog has been liked more than 100,000 times and shared over 55,000 times.

Former White House special adviser Van Jones stopped by the set of Morning Joe Thursday morning, where he promoted his new book, Rebuild the Dream, in which he talks about debt, foreclosures… and a run-in with media personality Glenn Beck, who has long been critical of Jones, and vice versa.

Over the years, reporter David Shuster has achieved a certain level of notoriety/celebrity by virtue of some high-voltage dustups with the likes of John Ziegler, the late Andrew Breitbart, James O’Keefe, and Hillary Clinton‘s presidential campaign. Now a linchpin at Current TV, Shuster is also lending his high profile to progressive Washington DC radio station We Act Radio (1480AM), a labor of love that is off to a better start than its creators could ever have expected.

On Tuesday, Mitt Romney appeared on Fox & Friends with Gretchen Carlson where he discussed president Obama and his campaign’s ability to reach out to reluctant women voters.

It’s been a little while since the Hillary 2016 chatter started up again, so almost makes sense that President Bill Clinton was asked about his wife’s political prospects in an interview with Luke Russert, which ran on Monday’s The Daily Rundown. Clinton mostly said supportive things about her (I’m happy if she’s happy), and gave a rather noncommittal response, saying he really doesn’t know what 2016 will bring.

On Wednesday, Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski took a look at Maureen Dowd‘s New York Times column. Could the discussion surrounding women and contraception open up a path for Hillary Clinton in ’16?

On Tuesday, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly invited Jehmu Greene — who is a former adviser to HRC — and Brad Blakeman, former deputy assistant to President George W. Bush, onto America Live to discuss recent comments made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during Tina Brown‘s “Women in the World” summit.

For many Republicans, the very real possibility of chaos in Tampa is nothing short of a nightmare. With the clear establishment choice, Mitt Romney, fulfilling the needs of those in power in style and resources but clearly lacking the substance the base of the party demands, many have begun to second-guess the new system that had led to such discord. Not it’s creator, Michael Steele, however, who explained today that the Republican primary, as far as he is concerned, is going all to plan.

If you think the race for the Republican presidential nomination has been ugly, you’re right. However, a recent joke by Republican pollster and Fox News analyst Frank Luntz indicates that the general election promises to be even uglier. Warming up a crowd at a Rick Santorum campaign event Monday night, Luntz cracked, “I have a ‘Run, Barack, Run’ bumper sticker, but I put it on the front of my car.”

On Tuesday, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell stopped by Morning Joe, where she looked back on the “great right-wing conspiracy’s” treatment of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Early on, Bill Clinton, Mitchell explained, defined himself as the “comeback kid,” partially thanks to his ability to not bow down to the anger and the “vicious” nature of the [...]

Michelle Obama has been making the rounds on daytime television to promote “Let’s Move!”, her initiative to end childhood obesity. “Saturday Night Live” featured a sketch this week that began with a televised address to the American people announcing that, in order to get the word out, she would be offering up her family to star in a new show called “The Obama Show.” This led to an 80s sitcom-type credits sequence featuring a lot of awkward Obama dancing and “Joe Jamal-Biden” leaping around in a Cosby sweater.

After a week of heavy emphasis on social issues and a possibly-related surge of Rick Santorum in national polls, Mitt Romney is throwing all of his egss in the Michigan basket, and Bill Maher said on his show tonight that after months of Romney being the inevitable nominee, there is now a very real chance that Romney’s coronation may not happen. And if Romney loses Michigan, the entire Republican contest may descend into absolute chaos.

On NBC’s Today Show Wednesday morning, host Matt Lauer underscored just how nasty this 2012 Republican primary campaign has gotten, and how quickly, when he asked former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to confirm whether he had received a congratulations call from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich following Romney’s victory in the Florida primary. Romney revealed that Gingrich did not call last night…or after Romney victories in Iowa (apparent victory, anyway) and New Hampshire.

Who: Josh Levin, Mike Pesca and Stefan Fatsis, with guest- Nate Silver What: Slate’s Hang Up and Listen, Live! Where: City Winery When: January 17, 2012 Thumbs: Up “I don’t want it to sound like a tautology” isn’t the kind of concern audibly shared at most sports panels, but while explaining how bad defenses play [...]

On Friday, the Morning Joe crew took a look into their crystal ball (sponsored by Starbucks) and glimpsed ahead into what the future may hold for big-name Democrats. Is current Vice President Joe Biden gearing up to run for another presidential run? Would President Barack Obama do well to tap Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to be his 2012 running mate? Would either stand a chance if Boo were to seek the nomination?

Unlikely GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich has tried to explain away the fact that he practically invented the health insurance mandate as a practical response to the evil Hillary Clinton push for universal health care in the early 90s, but The Wall Street Journal has uncovered a 2006 newsletter that vaporizes that claim. The April 2006 edition of “Newt Notes,” which the Gingrich campaign says their candidate didn’t write, contains high praise for mandated health insurance.

On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough agreed with Former President Bill Clinton’s assertion on The O’Reilly Factor that the press favored Barack Obama, saying the “press favored Barack Obama by a long shot over Hillary Clinton.”

One of the major problems facing Republican presidential frontrunners Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney is their longtime support for a national individual health insurance mandate, a major pillar of the dreaded Obamacare that conservative base voters hate so much. Romney passed an individual mandate as Massachusetts Governor, and expressed support for a national mandate. Gingrich, as Romney forced him to admit, all but thought the idea up. But there is one leading presidential candidate with a long record of opposition to mandating the purchase of health insurance.

Addressing international diplomats in Geneva today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton likened gay rights to women’s rights and the struggle for racial equality. While she recognized that the U.S.’s own track record with gay rights is “far from perfect,” Clinton criticized nations that criminalize gay behavior or that tolerate violence or prejudice against the LGBT community, noting that it should “never be a crime” to be gay.

In a recent op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, Fox News contributors Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen urged President Obama to “abandon his candidacy for re-election” in favor of “the one candidate who would become, by acclamation, the nominee of the Democratic Party: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.”

Their premise is that Sec. Clinton not only has a better chance to win, but “is the only leader capable of uniting the country around a bipartisan economic and foreign policy.”

Hillary Clinton spoke with NBC senior political correspondent Chuck Todd about her daughter Chelsea Clinton becoming his new news colleague at the network. “What – what did you think when she said, ‘I want to become a member of the fourth estate,’ this side of the line here?” Todd asked. “Well, I was a little surprised!” Clinton exclaimed. “But, you know, she -– she decided to go for it, and I’m very excited for her.”

strong>Dorothy Rodham, mother of Secretary of State and former First Lady Hillary Clinton, passed away early today in Washington DC surrounded by her family. She was 92 years old.

Clinton had canceled a scheduled trip to Britain and Turkey after her mother became ill. Rodham survived a challenging childhood, eventually forging her own place in life by taking various jobs, eventually becoming a homemaker and mother of three.

“This is war. And that’s how they fight it.”

That’s how Rush Limbaugh summed up his feelings on the blossoming Herman Cain sexual harassment story during his radio show today. The “they” in question are Democrats as Limbaugh conflated the Cain story with the Marco Rubio scandal from last week and said they were both examples of liberals working to destroy conservative minority members.