Colorado’s devastating wildfire is still raging, and conservatives know just who to blame for it.

An incredible bird’s-eye view of one of the Colorado wildfires.

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A snap Gallup poll says voters are split down the middle on yesterday’s historic Supreme Court decision: 46-46. Independents narrowly support it, 45% to 42%.

At the risk of stating the obvious: if you construe the mandate as a ‘tax’, it only applies to people who do not have health care insurance and refuse to get it after receiving subsidies that allow them to buy it.

How many people is that?

It’s very clear now that the immediate consequence of the Supreme Court’s health care ruling will be another Pavlovian “tax!” chant from the GOP.

We’ve run through how this is only true in a narrow technical sense. A perfectly executed mandate — like an ideal carbon or cigarette tax — would raise $0. The goal is to change behavior not to generate revenue. This is not, in spirit, the sort of “tax increase” Republicans want you to believe it is, and to the extent they’re right, well then Mitt Romney raised the exact same tax in Massachusetts. Read More

CNN is launching an internal probe of botched court ruling report.

A good perspective-inducing look at the presidential horse race polls over the course of 2012 to date. Read More

“[W]e established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance. Using tax penalties, as we did … encourages ‘free riders’ to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others.”

Answer.

Best right-wing responses to Roberts decision so far? Here’s our list. What did we miss?