Oh, the post-caucus lull: It’s like eating a The Bobbie sandwich from Capriotti’s and then sitting back to nap, isn’t it? Let’s go light with a few Quick Hits. Here we go!

• Despite doing his very best to excel at all the things Republicans love — hating gay people, embracing religion in the public square, golf — poor U.S. Sen. John Ensign has failed to make this early Washington Post list of potential vice presidential candidates. What’s South Carolina’s Dakota’s John Thune got that our pretty boy doesn’t, we ask?
  
• Speaking of Republicans, in case you hadn’t heard yet, Fred Thompson has dropped out of the race for president. And here Jack McCoy has already redecorated the D.A.’s digs into a "working office." Oh, well.
  
• So that’s why former President Bill Clinton is campaigning so vigorously for his wife! We thought there was something desperate about his style.
  
• You know, we weren’t actually at the Democratic presidential debate (and we had to choose between taping that or TruTV’s Ocean Force: Huntington Beach, OC, which clearly won out) but it seems to us that John Edwards really does represent the grown-up wing of the Democratic Party. That’s probably why he’s not winning.
  
• Before the caucus: Hillary Clinton v. Barack Obama. After the caucus: Pundits who complain about the caucus v. pundits who say you shouldn’t complain about the caucus.
  
• The campaign to justify the Review-Journal’s pre-caucus poll numbers, while at the same time slamming the Reno Gazette-Journal’s poll numbers, continues. (For those who missed it, the R-J’s pollster called the winners correctly but was off by double digits on the percentages for top candidates; the Gazette-Journal called the winner wrong.)
  
• Gov. Jim Gibbons tours the Las Vegas anti-terror "fusion center," which we imagine is not as nice as the completely redundant Official Jack Bauer Anti-Terrorist Commander-in-Chief Play Set he insisted be set up in Carson City to thwart attacks against rural Nevada. Meanwhile … kids with autism? No funding for you! And there’s still not a McCarran International Airport rep on the state’s Homeland Security Commission since the governor canned the wife of a political rival.