Feds ring up Blago on 17 of 20 counts in his retrial for trying to sell off the empty Senate seat of Barack Obama.
Bachmann hails fellow Iowa native … John Wayne Gacy?
Dane County Sheriff’s office opens investigation of Supreme Court ‘chokehold’ incident.
Mitch McConnell’s bright lines for a debt limit deal — zero revenue tax hikes and deep Medicare cuts — seem to make an agreement impossible.
Dems are apparently pushing for revenue hikes in the neighborhood of 20% of the spending cuts Republicans get in the negotiations. But that’s a non-starter. McConnell says debt reduction has to come 100% from spending cuts.
New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch (D) vetoes polling place ID bill. Lynch’s decision comes on the heels of Gov. Perdue’s (D) veto last week in North Carolina.
Republicans in the state legislature still have a shot at an override.
Campaign finance experts tell TPM Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) better have a written deferred compensation agreement signed and dated before he collected $10 million from a company he owns right after spending $9 million of his own cash on getting elected to the Senate in November. For now, Johnson seems content to ignore press inquires about the transaction.