American Police Force responded by fax yesterday to the Montana Attorney General’s questions. The response? Basically, go jump in a lake.

TPMDC has obtained the anti-reform talking points the insurance industry group AHIP is distributing to agents at one major insurer. Read them here.

One of the leading GOP prospects to run against Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL), the outspoken congressman who claimed the Republican health care plan was for Americans to “die quickly,” has decided not to get in the race — even though the national GOP has already been trying to raise money against Grayson in an attempt to duplicate Democratic fund-raising success against Rep. Joe “You lie!” Wilson (R-SC).

The NJ governor’s race won’t go down as the cleanest in history. But as the guy who made ethics his calling card, Chris Christie should have remembered he had a history of excessively charging the government for his business trips as US Attorney.

Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) is leaving Congress to take over a DC think tank, the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation.

I was traveling most of the day. I hear the new RNC website got off to a great start?

The highly respected Quinnipiac poll has a new result out on the NJ governor’s race. And in line with other recent polls it has one-time frontrunner Chris Christie up by a single point. As the upshot of other recent polls suggests, this is basically a tie race with only three weeks left to go.

Last night Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) ratcheted up the pressure on Majority Leader Harry Reid to include a public option provision when he melds the Baucus bill with the Kennedy bill:

If he puts it in the final bill, in the combined bill, then you would need 60 votes to remove it. And there clearly are not 60 votes against the public option. And so we’re urging him to do that, and he’s seriously considering it.

More here on the push to shift the onus to reform opponents to strip public option from the bill.

The NYT explores Joe Biden’s own evolving thinking on the conundrum of Afghanistan and his growing influence on administration policy on the issue. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.

Birther attorney Orly Taitz responds to the $20,000 fine levied on her by a federal court for bad-mouthing the judge by … bad-mouthing the judge: “It’s a delusional and corrupt judge.”