Curious to see in this morning’s press conference (11:30 a.m. ET) how much more evolving Obama has done on gay marriage.

How Republicans finally found a tax cut they didn’t like — one that might provide a short-term boost to the economy and President Obama.

There’s a new New Hampshire poll out tonight from Suffolk. And the big story is Michele Bachmann. Romney remains in the lead with 36%. Bachmann takes 11%. But that’s up 8 percentage points from May. And everyone else is in single digits.

Actually, that understates the drop off. Ron Paul has 8%. From there you drop down to non-candidate Rudy Giuliani at 5%. Huntsman and Palin at 4%. Pawlenty, Gingrich and Cain each at a micronious 2%.

At this point in the cycle, I’m a bit unclear whether it’s to Romney’s advantage or not to have really no nominate-able opponent even in contention. And yes, that means I don’t consider Bachmann or Paul realistic nominees.

How Maggie Thatcher became the icon of the Republican presidential primary season.

Watchdog group asks FBI to investigate whether Rep. Laura Richardson (D-CA) misused congressional staff.

In tough economic times, in-parties routinely accuse out-parties of hoping for bad economic times. But this time there’s a little noticed tell that puts the question in much sharper relief. Having run last year on a platform of jobs, jobs, jobs, congressional Republicans are now more or less openly saying that they’re not interested in doing anything to boost jobs or economic growth in the short or even medium term.

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TPM caught up with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Capitol Hill today and asked him straight up if his $10 million deferred compensation arrangement was agreed to in advance. He ducked the question.

How big a deal would default be? Moody’s chief economist and former McCain advisor Mark Zandi says it would knock the economy back into recession.

The controversy surrounding one Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice allegedly putting another one in a chokehold may eventually need to be decided by … the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Campaign finance experts tell TPM Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) better have a written deferred compensation agreement signed and dated before he collected $10 million from a company he owns right after spending $9 million of his own cash on getting elected to the Senate in November. For now, Johnson seems content to ignore press inquires about the transaction.