Wisconsin election officials continue to examine the vote count issues in Waukesha County.

Gov. John Kasich (R) is starting to lose business support in his war with Ohio labor.

Science, education, environment and health care top cut list from Friday’s shutdown-averting budget deal.

Michele Bachmann is opening the door for a possible run for a second term as president.

Pretty rare for Colbert to completely lose it and fall out of character. Watch.

The GOPers on the House Appropriations Committee released a chart of the cuts in the federal budget for the rest of fiscal year 2011. It’s a pretty handy reference point for the top line numbers across the board.

You’d think after all the humiliation of last year, Charlie Crist could catch a bit of a break or at least a time out from political wrangling. But apparently not. He’s still dealing with the fall out of using the Talking Heads’ “Road to Nowhere” without permission in an ad attacking now Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). He’s now had to tape a personal video apologizing to David Byrne, apparently as part of some undisclosed settlement. Watch.

Well, if you’d harbored any illusions about the coming budget battles not being a complete friggin’ disaster for the Dems, it might be time to push those illusions overboard right now and just kick back and enjoy the fishing.

With Republicans staking out their ground on the back to the 19th Century Ryan Budget plan, Dems and apparently the White House are deciding to make their starting point the … Bowles-Simpson Plan.

I guess we’ll hear more tomorrow. But the signal that Simpson-Bowles is going to be the Democrats’ starting point in budget negotiations doesn’t suggest anything good about where the president wants to take this debate. The broader point though is that as long as the president is talking purely about dollars, he’s losing and will continue to lose. Read More

John Podesta says not raising the debt limit is suicide … for Republicans.