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06.15.12 | 12:57 pm
‘No, You Have To Take Questions’

Read the White House transcript of the exchange between the Daily Caller reporter and President Obama.

06.15.12 | 11:13 am
Proud

The Daily Caller says it’s “proud” of reporter Neil Munro for interrupting the President today.

06.15.12 | 10:23 am
Out Of Line

The guy who saw fit to interrupt twice the President’s address in the Rose Garden on his new immigration policy, which was being carried live by the cable nets, was actually a reporter for The Daily Caller named Neil Munro.





06.15.12 | 9:39 am
The Unspeakable Word

Michigan State Rep. Lisa Brown (D), the woman who was silenced by House Republicans for saying ‘vagina’, tells TPM how it all went down.

06.15.12 | 9:16 am
Shop Talk

Ryan Lizza talks to TPM about his magnum opus on a prospective Obama second term, the crisis in political journalism, and what makes Obama think the Republican fever will break.

06.15.12 | 9:12 am
Dept. Of Bad Timing

RNC takes down Latino outreach site that mistakenly featured photos of Asians.

06.15.12 | 6:36 am
Quick Prediction, DREAM Edition

This was a doubly clever move by the Obama administration. Over and above the obvious appeal to a key constituency, the policy here mimics, I assume intentionally, what Republicans claim they want to adopt in a scaled-down version of the DREAM Act. But for Republicans, embracing Obama’s move carries the same risk with their base as rejecting it does with immigrants — the voting bloc they’re most concerned about alienating. A hunch: prepare yourself for a deluge of condemnations of executive-branch overreach, paired with real reluctance to say anything meaningful about what the directive actually accomplishes.

06.15.12 | 6:03 am
Huge News

This is big, big news — both in policy and political terms: President Obama is pushing through what amounts to a mini-Dream Act by executive order *.

Late Update: It turns out it’s not technically an ‘executive order’ but rather a ‘DHS directive’; but same difference in as much as it’s a move the administration can make unilaterally.

06.15.12 | 4:56 am
Ralph Reed on God and the Young’uns

Ralph Reed isn’t worried that the under-30 set is abandoning God. They’ll be back, he tells TPM. And they’ll become conservatives too.