A new poll says 39% of voters are less likely to support a NRA-backed candidate, 26% more likely.

As advertised, President Obama is calling on Congress to pay down the sequester for a few months with a mix of less abrupt spending cuts and new tax revenues. Specifically, he argues that Congress should buy itself time to hash out a unified budget — to create a glide path for further deficit reduction — instead of attempting to cobble together legislative priorities while the sequester takes its toll on government services and the economy.

“If congress can’t act immediately on a bigger package, if they can’t get a bigger package done by the time the sequester scheduled to go into effect, then I believe that they should at least pass a smaller package of spending cuts and tax reforms that would delay the economically damaging effects of the sequester for a few more months until congress finds a way to replace these cuts with a smarter solution,” Obama said. “Congress is already working towards a budget that would permently replace the sequester at the very least we should give them the chance to come up with this budget instead of making indiscriminate cuts now that will cost us jobs and significantly slow down our recovery.” Read More

Everybody’s sure immigration reform is coming. Except it has to get through the House GOP caucus and the House Judiciary Committee where pretty much everyone is hostile to reform.

If Rove and Crew want to shut down Steve King and other Tea Partiers who want to run for Senate this year, a new polls shows they may have quite a fight in store for them. Steve King starts out in a strong position for the Iowa Republican Senate nod.

Among the interesting CBO economic projections in its new report out today: full economic recovery from the Great Recession will not be achieved until 2017.

Virginia state Senate passes new, more restrictive voter ID law.

Check this out. Virginia Dems may force Gov. McDonnell to give way on the ‘Obamacare’ Medicaid expansion.

Piers Morgan tries out assault rifles at the local range. Watch.

How sweeping was that D.C. Circuit court decision limiting the power of the recess appointment?

There have been more than 600 recess appointments since Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, and nearly all of them would have been barred had this ruling been in effect at the time, according to a memo from the Congressional Research Service.

A big big brouhaha in the Virginia state assembly over whether the state will accept the hundreds of millions of new Medicaid dollars being offered by Obamacare.