Rep. Steve King (R-IA), the guy who said DREAMers are mainly are drug smugglers, went on the House floor today to defend his comments, actually repeat his comments. We watched it live. And a few times I walked by the folks watching it and “So, what’s he saying exactly?” And these pretty smart folks who produce each day basically said, “We’re really not sure” and understandably so since King went on to talk about Moses and the Greeks and the Founding Fathers and various other people to explain why DREAMers are drug mules. Read More

Attorney General Eric Holder, effectively swinging for the fences, has asked a federal court to put Texas back under Voting Rights Act ‘pre-clearance’ using another part of the law. Big deal.

GOP Sen Burr.: Govt Shutdown threats over Obamacare “the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard.”

If you’re running web ads calling you Tea Party primary opponent an “east coast con man” a year and a half before the election, I think you might be a tad worried.

Anthony Weiner says he sexted with up to three women post-resignation. He reports between 6 and 10 digamours while he served in Congress.

It does make me wonder though that since this is all digital whether there might not be an app that would allow him to keep a more accurate record of the number of women? Just wondering.

Anthony Weiner takes big hit in latest post-2nd-round-sexting scandal poll.

GOP's "white" gamble for '16: O lost white/wmn by 14; new @maristpoll shows #HRC trails Christie w/them by 6, Jeb by 7, and leading Rubio.

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) July 24, 2013

There’s a little Twitterese. So in case there’s any unclarity, according to these very early polls, Hillary Clinton is polling substantially better among white women than President Obama did in 2012. And remember, Obama won. Also notably, the relative percentage of white women in the electorate will probably be a bit smaller in 2016 than it was in 2012. Read More

In my experience, Obamacare opponents are equally adamant about two things: that the law should and will fail; and that nobody should ever say anything mean about them.

They bristle visibly when you note — as Norm Ornstein just did — that the implementation hurdles they’ve erected amount to “sabotage.” Read More

Even I’ve been surprised at how rapidly Southern states have moved on crackdowns on voting after the reins of the Voting Rights Act were removed. Now Florida’s back to voter purges.

Here’s brief, shocking footage of the moment of that deadly high speed train crash in Spain caught on camera. Seems like it was a surveillance camera which must have itself been destroyed by the impact. After the jump … Read More