Wisconsin Dems kick off their effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker (R) today.
A new poll says that a majority of Americans now support the individual mandate, the central component of the President’s health care reform law.
A poll will come out later today that shows Newt Gingrich now in the lead nationwide in the GOP primary race.
SNL revisits Rick Perry’s now-legendary moment of debate awesome.
Is Newt more than just another non-Mitt prepping for a sub-orbital flight against the frontrunner? TPM Reader EA says yes.
It strikes me that Newt’s rise in the polls is, to borrow a Newtism, fundamentally, unlike those experienced at other times during this Presidential nomination process. Newt Gingrich is decidedly not like Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain. Sure, he’s got these enormous flaws in his personal life that may very well render him just as or nearly as unelectable as some of these other GOP trend candidates, but I would argue that Newt is the only candidate positioned to mount any kind of challenge to Mitt Romney.
For the first time since the Fukushima nuclear accident, journalists were allowed back into plant to take photographs of the crippled plant and the on-going clean up effort. Take a look.
Can Mitt match up? Or can Gingrich outdo him at every turn on the cartoonish over the top rhetoric that Republican primary voters eat up like Doritos or super salty nachos?
Just watch this video. Not much more to say than that. It’s time lapse images of Earth from space. Watch.
Brian Beutler points out that SuperCommittee Republicans have suddenly started “no commenting” questions about whether they’ll support tax hikes as part of a debt deal.