Political Points: Cantor power, Romney rolls, Jon Stewart’s Super-PAC

CANTOR THE POWERFUL: House Majority Leader tops GQ’s “50 most powerful people in Washington list.”

SCHUMER SIBLING’S MCCONNELL GIVE: Senators Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell have a history of acrimony, yet the former’s brother donated $1,000 to the latter’s reelection committee.

JINSA DEFECTIONS: After canning a longtime staffer, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs lost several of its most prominent advisory board members, including former CIA chief James Woolsey and former Pentagon official Richard Perle.

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WAXMAN’S TOUGH TALK: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) says that Republicans are going to have to give a lot of ground if the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits are going to be extended.

SOUTH CAROLINA’S TOLERANCE: Southern politics expert Jack Bass reviews South Carolina’s history of religious tolerance and Jewish political involvement.

ROMNEY’S ROLL: Elizabeth Rubin writes that Mitt Romney is “moving toward the nomination both because his opponents have been ineffective (and self-defeating) and because, for all the eye-rolling in the media and the distaste for him among right-wing pundits, he has developed a solid conservative agenda.”

REAL TURKEY TROUBLES: Michael Rubin says that while Rick Perry’s criticism of Turkey may have lacked precision, progressives “are fiddling while Turkish women literally burn.”

JON STEWART’S SUPER-PAC: Jon Stewart inherited fellow comedian and faux presidential aspirant Stephen Colbert’s Super-PAC, and now the two are exploring the boundaries of “coordination,” which is, in at least its strictest definition, strictly prohibited.