Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) on the White House’s stonewalling: let’s take what we can get, and then take another run at the wall if we don’t like it.

In case you missed it, the esteemed Dean Baker of The American Prospect’s Beat the Press joined the Coffee House today.

His first contribution: Deflating the Housing Bubble.

Bush sinks to record low in Fox News poll.

Late Update: The Fox poll also asked what may be the most insanely jingoistic question ever in a Fox survey — and the answer was even more startling.

Feds continue investigation of Rep. Tom Feeney’s (R-FL) link to Jack Abramoff.

DCCC to blitz select House GOPers with ads over July 4th break.

Nathan Newman and M.J. Rosenberg respond to the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down race-based assignment policies used to desegregate schools.

Did Karl Rove sic the Justice Department on former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman (D)?

We look at the evidence in today’s episode of TPMtv …

Here’s video of Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) on the House floor today, offering an amendment to defund our branchless vice president.

Taking heavy incoming fire from Elizabeth Edwards, Ann Coulter finally cracks up under pressure.

Have you ever seen such a sad-sack president?

It’s President Bush reacting to the second and presumably final death of his rotten immigration bill. And lecturing Congress on what it needs to prove to the American people. He almost looks and sounds like someone has literally knocked the wind out of him (take a look and tell me if you don’t agree) …

All of his own making.