Day by day, how the Dems championed, fumbled and then choked on the tax cut fight.

Cong. Steve King (R-IA) claims Colbert right-wing persona actually just a put-on.

Biden recently brought under Sharia Law with terrorist fistbump …

That and more in our weekend slideshow.

In this edition, O’Donnell decries the ‘myth’ of evolution. Quote for the ages: If evolution’s so true, “Well then why aren’t monkeys still evolving into humans?”

In the furor surrounding the passage of Arizona’s notorious immigration crackdown bill, one incident that heavily inflamed the debate was the shooting of Pinal County Deputy Louie Puroll, who was allegedly shot by gang of drug smugglers he was tracking in the desert. Puroll reported being ambushed by the drug smugglers and then engaged in a running gun battle in which was grazed by a bullet in the back.

Now though two renowned forensic pathologists are saying that Puroll’s wound was clearly suffered at point-blank range and thus, quite possibly, self-inflicted as part of an effort to create a cause celebre to rally anti-immigrant forces in the state.

TPM readers will be familiar with Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, as the sheriff from John McCain’s ‘danged fence‘ TV ad.

Van Hollen: We may do tax cut vote before the election after all.

GOProud had Ann Coulter as their headline speaker last night at their inaugural Homocon party. And our Megan Carpentier was there.

The latest forecast on which states win and which states lose House seats thanks to the 2010 census.

Are Dems really planting fake tea party candidates on the ballot to split the conservative vote? In a handful of races around the country, that’s starting to look like the case.