The forgotten front in the war on voting: the disenfranchisement of some 5.3 million felons.

Are parts of the enduring narrative of Woodward and Bernstein’s Watergate investigation not true?

As you know, on the eve of the anniversary of the targeted killing of arch-terrorist Osama bin Laden, the Obama reelection campaign launched a frontal attack on Mitt Romney. They not only celebrated Obama’s decision but freely suggested that Romney wouldn’t have had the focus or the guts to make the call.

As it happens, of course, Romney has provided plenty of evidence to back up this attack. In line with the late Bush administration policy and messaging on OBL, Romney repeatedly said that the US shouldn’t focus on hunting him down. The point wasn’t that OBL was off the hook but that we shouldn’t be focusing on this one guy. Romney followed by attacking Obama in 2008 for suggesting that he would unilaterally send American troops into Pakistan to kill bin Laden. In both cases, Romney was doing little more than repeating the strategic or political orthodoxy of the GOP leader of the moment, in the first case George W. Bush in 2007 and then John McCain in 2008. Read More

The five stages of GOP reaction to the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

White House dismisses Sen. Marco Rubio’s claims that it is actively working to torpedo his version of the DREAM Act: “If this proposal fails, the reason will be the Republicans,” a White House official tells TPM.

Virginia is pushing ahead with passenger rail expansion in the state despite the uncertainty of federal funding, Carl Franzen reports.

Photos from this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner.

Romney top advisor Eric Fehrnstrom says that not only did Mitt Romney not oppose auto bailout but that President Obama actually got the idea from Mitt.

Mexico sends “diplomatic note of protest” to U.S. government over its decision announced late Friday not to prosecute a Border Patrol agent for the 2010 shooting death of a Mexican teenager.

A mashup of the two speeches that Obama and Romney gave this week to college campus audiences. Watch.