From Roll Call …

House Republicans presented a four-page outline of their health care reform plan Wednesday but said they didn’t know yet how much it would cost, how they would pay for it and how many of the nearly 50 million Americans without insurance would be covered by it.

Latest Tweet from Rep. Pete Hoekstra …

Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House.

That one’s so insane it may qualify to be added to the list of GOP social media embarrassments.

And there’s more. Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) expresses solidarity with Iranians on behalf of the group suffering repression that he belongs to … the House GOP caucus.

When House Republicans succeed in their own ‘color revolution’, what color will they be?

It’s starting to look like Sen. Ensign’s affair may have been forced into the public because the guy trying to extort a pay off from him got swamped in the mortgage crisis in the short-circuited Las Vegal real estate market.

The White House has now given Congress its reasons for firing Corporation for National and Community Service Inspector General Gerald Walpin. Here’s our latest report.

With all the news this week, be sure to check out the TPMCafe Book Club we’re hosting on Eric Boehlert’s Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press. Here’s Eric’s latest post in the discussion, “The Liberal Blogosphere’s Uncertain Future.”

If you’re up for some late evening TV viewing tonight, I’m going to be on the Colbert Report.

As noted earlier, it seems like one of the reasons Sen. Ensign’s former mistress’s husband (Doug Hampton) tried to shake him down for cash (at least that’s what Ensign claims he did) was that the couple got in over their heads because of the mortgage crisis and the collapse of the Las Vegas real estate market.

That’s not too surprising when you see the swank manse that seemed to have them up to their gills in debt.

Here’s a special TPM Slideshow of Chez Hampton, the house that may have brough Sen. Ensign’s career to a screeching halt.

Jim Sleeper checks in with an on the ground report from a former student reporting from the streets in Tehran.