I’ll post more thoughts on the House GOP’s new-budget-same-as-the-old budget shortly. But first I want to make a quick observation about one of Paul Ryan’s perceived inconsistencies, because I think it’s a big distraction from more important things.

At a press conference this morning, Ryan said there’s nothing hypocritical about Republicans preserving revenues from a recent income tax increase they claim to hate because “law is law.” “We’re not going to refight the past,” he reiterated.

This he said as he introduced a budget that proposes to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Read More

This is bizarrely awesome. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is under fire from clerics at home for embracing the mother of Hugo Chavez at Chavez’s funeral.

Explaining his election night meltdown, Rove says media should stop calling elections prematurely, could learn something from conclave model. Watch.

Pelosi says the federal government shouldn’t interfere with Colorado’s (and other state’s) legalization of pot.

Palin celebrates ‘victory in NYC for Liberty-loving soda drinkers’. Diabetes Smash!

With the papal conclave now underway, check out our special Pope election cheat sheet.

One of the central confusions and obfuscations of immigration reform is the so-called ‘pathway to citizenship’. So today we look at just what a ‘real’ pathway to citizenship looks like.

The NYC tabs have a field day with the overturning of the Big Gulp ban.

Can’t stress enough how the refusal to confirm a nominee for an agency — because the Senate minority thinks the agency should not exist — sets a new standard for abuse of the filibuster.

Maine town rejects mandatory gun ownership.