Here's your awesome idea of the day. A group of Tea Partyish House Republicans is pushing the idea of saving money by abolishing the dollar bill and replacing with a mandated $1 coin. It's called Currency Optimization, Innovation and National Savings (COINS) Act and it would allegedly save money in addition to being a huge pain in the butt (perhaps literally) for every American.

Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) says it's time for Republicans to double down on his Medicare-ending budget.

In what's clearly becoming a major theme going into the 2012 campaign, VP Joe Biden calls the booing of a gay soldier at last week's GOP debate "reprehensible." Watch.

The military's aggressive plan to transition to renewable energy is getting crimped by the House investigation of Solyndra and the Department of Energy's renewables loan program.

You've probably seen the youtube clip of the NYPD officer pepper spraying protestors in the Occupy Wall Street protests. It turns out the same guy was named in civil rights complaints tied to the 2004 anti-Bush/GOP convention protests.

Anti-Islam blogger Pam Geller planning a lawsuit over rejected subway ad calling Israel's enemies "savages."

Heckler calls Obama 'Antichrist' before being whisked away by Secret Service. Watch.

With some luck and holding the line, Dems just managed to get their way on FEMA funding, scoring a victory in the last Capitol Hill hostage drama.

The FBI has a message for the nation's idiots. No, shining lasers into cockpits as pilots are landing planes is not a great idea. In fact, it's a serious felony. 24 year old Justin Stouder just found out the hard way.

Chris Christie vetoes $420,000 production subsidy for Jersey Shore.

Mitt Romney gives reporters the slip at Trump meeting, perhaps denying world iconic Nixon-Elvis-like photo.

Rich Silicon Valley guy asks Obama "Would you please raise my taxes?" Watch.

Meet the big, BIG money behind the Chris Christie Boomlet.

Mitt Romney is meeting GOP kingmaker (who knows?) Donald Trump this afternoon. And Dems are pouncing.

TPM Reader VF makes a good point. The vortex of Romney Gravity can't last much longer. Florida and South Carlina have primary filing deadlines at the end of next month -- actually November 1st for South Carolina. So if Perry can't start chugging the Red Bull and get back into conservatives good graces, I think we've got to expect the hunger for another candidate to reach a complete crazy fever pitch at the end of next month.

A small town in Alabama is offering offenders a choice: jail, fine or start going to church every week.

Obama tears into Perry, GOP debate audiences as outside the mainstream, " not reflective of who we are."

Should we be surprised that there is a deafening, on-going groundswell of at least some sort of demand for a ill-tempered, half-term, extremely rotund 50%-50% popularity Governor of New Jersey to get into the presidential race? I'd say, yes. Very much so. But it focuses attention on something that is right out in the open, visible to all but somehow strangely unidentified: the overwhelming gravitational force of anti-Romneyism.

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Everybody's got to make money. And now the Canadian band Tea Party is considering selling the domain they've had since 93 to the highest bidder. "So much damage has been done to our name by the political movement that we're considering selling," bassist Stuart Chatwood told Businessweek.

At least about a key element in his Special Theory of Relativity? Fermilab, the US accelerator lab, is trying to duplicate the experiment from CERN which appeared to show neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light.