I’m not sure I realized how dramatic an effect that Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid is projected to have in reducing the ranks of the uninsured, especially in Southern states … where refusenik conservative state governments are poised to block the expansion. The numbers are startling.

Clarence Page: My job is safe — for now.

After WSJ OpEd, Kristol, Ingraham and Murdoch trash Romney for having an inept press operation, Romney signals he’ll hire more experienced media handlers.

See the conservatives who once loved Jonathan Krohn — Newt, Mitt, Karl Rove, vote fraud fraudster James O’Keefe and so so many more.

Ed.Note: The Nobel Committee has judged this the slideshow of the year.

How many times does Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) say “Ashleigh” in today’s trainwreck interview with CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield?

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Words fail me. Just look.

Trainwreck Congressman Joe Walsh goes on CNN. CNN welcomes him with trainwreck interview.

Watch.

Romney camp responds to Democratic broadside on his Bermuda holdings.

I’m on record saying Washington Republicans erred by glomming on to the Supreme Court’s ACA ruling to attack President Obama for secretly raising taxes. Not that the RNC and congressional Republicans didn’t have their own good reasons. Obviously they did. But that on the whole it would’ve made sense to defer to the Romney camp’s original view that the mandate is a penalty — not a tax — that the Court should have struck down.

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In which NRO’s Jim Geraghty, responding to Benjy Sarlin‘s piece, defends not including giant anonymous contributions from 501(c)(4) entities in his analysis of which side is benefitting most from outside money in the post-Citizens United world. Shorter rationale: It’s hard to find those numbers.