Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) giving Mitt Romney a run for his money in the latest national poll of the GOP primary race.
Rupert Murdoch: “This is the most humble day of my life.”
Parliament grills Rupert Murdoch over the phone hacking scandal beginning at 9:30 ET. Watch.
Why Mitt Romney’s fundraising haul from maxed-out big donors could spell trouble down the road.
Brian Beutler cuts through the all incremental developments in the debt ceiling talks to give us the big picture on where things are headed and why.
We’ve got a primer for you in advance of Parliament’s grilling today of the Murdochs, father and son. Fascinating stuff.
George Packer on the respective positions of President Obama and the GOP in the debt talks: “Responsibility without conviction is weak, but it is sane. Conviction without responsibility, in the current incarnation of the Republican Party, is raving mad.”
If the Republican Party were a fraternity, the initiation rite for this year’s pledge class would be to force the federal government into default.
Brian Beutler explains why the GOP’s “budget” plan that will come to a vote today Tuesday has no chance of passing — but will be spawning TV ads through November 2012.