It must not look good for Justice Prosser up in Wisconsin. They’re already carting out John Fund to bang the “vote fraud” gong.

Meeting shaping up at the White House this evening at 8:45 PM between Obama, Reid and Boehner.

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The late evening negotiating session at the White House among President Obama, Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Reid just broke up with no deal yet.

If you’re a Republican member of the Ohio legislature and don’t toe the party line, they strip you of your committee assignments.

Looks like all those poison pill policy riders House Republicans attached to the budget — on abortion, the environment, etc — are the big sticking points preventing a deal to fund the government. Which is pretty telling indication of how serious the GOP really is about deficit reduction. Not very.

Harry Reid just said on the Senate floor that he’s less optimistic now than when he left the White House meeting last with the President and Speaker Boehner. The White House just announced Reid and Boehner will return for another session at 1 p.m. ET.

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Yesterday we received a package from former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-CA), partly in response to a letter from TPM reporter Ryan Reilly. It included a letter answering various of Ryan’s questions along with a new testimonial entitled “The Untold Story of Duke Cunningham”, which he also sent to other press organizations. Here’s our report. You’ll want to read it.

Harry Reid tells reporters on Capitol Hill: I’m beginning to doubt that Boehner wants to avoid a government shutdown.

Was just listening to commentary on one of the cable channels about who gets furloughed in a government shutdown, who has to show up for work and doesn’t get paid, etc. And then at the end of the segment the news reader said, “And in case you think this helps the economy …” Then she described a study by some accounting firm explaining how it takes X amount of GDP out of the economy. Read More