You can all rest assured since the team of Michele Bachmann and Steve King led the charge in getting the GOP’s own immigration bill torpedoed and are now cheering the new phony bill as one of history’s great pieces of legislation. So all good.
It’s amazing that anyone has actually convinced themselves that Obamacare was intended to deny subsidies in states that didn’t set up their own exchanges. But if you did, here’s the proof that you’re wrong.
It’s almost sad that Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) has to note this. House Republicans can’t sue President Obama for overusing his executive powers and then ask him the next day to act unilaterally to solve the border problem with executive orders.
After pulling their own bill yesterday in the face of conservative opposition, House leaders elected to pass a symbolic bill and leave town.
On Tuesday I explained that after eight years using Skype as TPM’s digital nervous system, we signed off the service for good. I’ve been surprised about the number of people, publicly and privately, who’ve asked me and other staffers what system we switched to. I didn’t expect it. But it seems like there’s a lot of interest. So here goes.
Democrats of course are happy to watch House GOP flail:
“Just record this smile on my face,” said an impish Sen. Reid, asked about the House GOP failure to vote on a border bill.
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) July 31, 2014
Stephen Colbert out of character and on camera for quite a long time, dispensing advice to teen girls. Really.
Just six more months until Michele Bachmann is out of Congress, but she’s trying to make every day count.
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.