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07.13.11 | 4:09 am
Serious About Voting

DOJ sues Louisiana for failing to provide voter registration forms at public assistance and disability services agencies, as required by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

07.13.11 | 3:11 am
Clean Sweep

The real Democratic candidates prevailed over the fake “Dems” in all of Wisconsin’s Senate recall primaries last night. Now it’s on to the actual recall elections.

07.13.11 | 3:09 am
CA-36 Stays Democratic

Republican Craig Huey conceded to Democrat Janice Hahn in the CA-36 special election in Los Angeles.

07.12.11 | 7:02 pm
Unmanned

From the Post’s bird’s eye inside the debt meetings …

Since pulling the plug on the deal, Boehner has been largely silent in the meetings, leaving House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) to present details of the House’s position. On Tuesday, people in both parties said, Obama tried to reestablish Boehner’s primacy.

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07.12.11 | 4:53 pm
Upping the Ante on Murdoch

Sen. Rockefeller (D-WV), Chairman of the Commerce, Science & Transportation Chairman, calls on regulators to probe Murdoch’s News Corp to see whether US laws were broken in phone hacking scandal.

07.12.11 | 4:00 pm
Norquist Backtracks

Norquist: News of my support for McConnell plan are greatly exaggerated. But not that greatly.

07.12.11 | 3:05 pm
Boehner’s On Board

Boehner on McConnell debt limit parachute plan: Works for me.

07.12.11 | 3:01 pm
NetFlix Pulls the Trigger

Want Netflix mail to your home DVDs and the cool streaming video stuff? That’s gonna cost extra.

07.12.11 | 2:25 pm
‘Starve The Beast’

TPM Reader HJ says I wasn’t emphatic enough below about what Grover Norquist’s endorsement of the McConnell plan means, pointing to Norquist’s oft-repeated line that he wants to shrink government until it’s small enough to drown in the bathtub: Read More

07.12.11 | 2:07 pm
Time To Declare Victory

You never win any Washington debate unless you declare yourself the winner. Period. No third party — let alone the press — will declare you the victor until you bestow the honors upon yourself. It’s just the way the town works.

George W. Bush was very good at that. He declared himself the winner time and again, often when by any objective standard he was the clear loser. But it worked. Read More