Greg Corombos and National Review’s Jim Geraghty give the House GOP credit for rolling up their sleeves and getting to work on spending and scrutinizing the Fed. We also wonder why Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar seems to be doing everything he can to antagonize the Tea Party ahead of his 2012 re-election effort. And we chronicle the latest insanity from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, after he tells a black conservative from National Review that he looks more like President Obama than GOP front-runner Mitt Romney.