Lanny Davis and Michael Steele tell angry bloggers: You people don’t understand the awesome.

John Boehner, after killing the DREAM Act earlier this year, calls out President Obama for killing the DREAM Act.

New York Rep. and Senate longshot Bob Turner held a protest yesterday in support of kindergarteners right to sing Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA.”

It did not go well.

A nice mix of stories today from our stable of reporters, rounding out to a big picture of where the election is today. We now face an election with at best a tepid US economy — Brian Beutler looks at how the fate of the US economy hinges on the management and outcome of the EuroZone crisis, which is almost entirely outside its control. And that’s forced the president back from the broad ‘Morning in America-lite’ campaign they were hoping for last winter to a tighter and more hard fought blocking and tackling over critical demographic groups in in a handful of states. Read More

Here at TPM we watch more Fox News than is probably healthy — hazards of the business and what not.

Among our favorite parts of the ‘Fair and Balanced’ parade are the relentlessly theatrical promos.

Behold then, in a piece of work that would doubtless break Alex DeLarge, the ultimate Fox News Promo.

Likely voters overwhelmingly support President Obama’s immigration move.

Meanwhile, as Sahil Kapur explains, Obama has provoked an intense backlash to the move among conservative Republicans which is mainly causing problems for Mitt Romney. To understand what the White House’s move was really about be sure to check out Sahil’s piece.

George Zimmerman, not at all talented at speaking in code:

“Because he can only take it from PayPal Peter Pan to mine.”

In today’s episode of The Set-Up, I look at the spot in which President Obama’s immigration announcement has put Mitt Romney.

Rubio says White House never called him about immigration move.

Ezra Klein explores the GOP’s unanimous turn against the individual mandate as an example of motivated reasoning: Partisans convincing themselves that their prior views about health care policy were wrong in order to deny political enemies a key victory.

I have a very different read. And I think it can be applied broadly — not just to the mandate, but to cap-and-trade legislation, the payroll tax cut, policy objectives on both sides of the aisle. Read More