Just six more months until Michele Bachmann is out of Congress, but she’s trying to make every day count.

You can see why hospitals were so onboard with Obamacare.

Here is a chart that not only shows the staggering wealth gap across the divides of race, gender and marriage status. It also maps many of the key dynamics and fault lines driving contemporary American politics.

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Truly must read look at the history of the state exchange/federal exchange part of Obamacare which now threatens to leave millions of recipients without their subsidies.

Right wing blogger suggests he may be targeted for assassination over Cochran campaign coverage.

AP: “Axon declined to answer questions about specifics in the suit, including whether the man had a penis when he left the hospital.”

The James O’Keefian, reporter/freedom fighter Charles Johnson made a stir during the Mississippi Senate runoff with his story purporting to prove that the Cochran campaign paid operatives to buy the votes of African-Americans for $15 a pop. Now the state’s Attorney General, Jim Hood, says the accuser was “paid $2000 [by Johnson] to lie” and he’s investigating what happened.

Hood notes that it is not a crime in Mississippi to pay someone to fabricate a claim about a purported crime. But his office does appear to be investigating where the money came from. So it seems we will likely not be seeing a guerrilla report inside the Mississippi correctional system any time soon.

If I didn’t know better I would almost think the President is goading GOP backbenchers into a race-drenched tyranny-derp freakout perfectly designed to crush the GOP for yet another generation among non-white voters and alienate a lot of white people who aren’t part of the GOP base.

With the latest outbreak of GOP impeachment denialism, it’s worth noting what happens when the president or his proxies started aggressive surfacing the crazy that usually just bubbles along in the right wing echo chamber.

Is good news on the 2014 front leading the GOP to forget its outsized reliance on a literally and figuratively dying part of the electorate? Ed Kilgore explains.