The Associated Press launches a cheap, factually questionable hit on Barack Obama.

Update: It gets better. Now the Republican National Committee is aggressively pushing the AP piece to reporters.

OK, here you go. Everything you wanted to know about Carol Lam’s prosecution of immigration cases, but were afraid to ask.

Yesterday, we gave an overview of the dispute over Lam’s handing of border cases — that’s the administration’s story, remember, for why she was canned.

And today, we look at evidence that Justice Department officials really didn’t want Lam around no matter what.

Nobody can say we didn’t give it a hard look.

This is quite an accomplishment. Dean Campaign/DNC organizing guru Marshall Ganz offers a brief history of organizing in America, and a hopeful call for democratic renewal.

On the run (from the Chicago Sun-Times )…

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales dashed out of a Chicago news conference this afternoon in just two and a half minutes, ducking questions about how his office gave U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald a subpar rating.

Gonzales, who increasingly faces calls for his resignation, was here to promote a new ad campaign and had planned a 15-minute press availability. He left after taking just three questions over a firing scandal consuming his administration.

Before leaving, Gonzales said he wanted to “reassure the American people that nothing improper happened here.”

Senate measure to strike withdrawal timetable from Iraq war spending legislation is set for a vote today at 5 P.M.

And now the case for suspicion over Carol Lam’s firing. So the next time you hear that there’s “no evidence” that she was fired because of an ongoing investigation into Republicans, you know where to look.

Senate Dems win a round.

The GOP measure to nix withdrawal timetables in the Senate’s Iraq spending bill has just gone down to defeat.

Andrew Sullivan on the fired U.S. attorneys: “this strikes me as classic Rove.”

Remember that $140,000 contract Cunningham briber Mitchell Wade got with the White House back in 2002 for “office furniture.” We just found out what it was really for. Check back soon.

Whoops! Joe Lieberman inadvertently reveals his own dissembling over Iraq on Senate floor today.