President Obama urged members of Congress Monday to pass a farm bill intended to relieve farmers struggling in the midst of a debilitating drought. He also signed off on $170 million in drought aid.

That might all be a product of Obama’s guilty conscience, suggested an aide to House Speaker John Boehner, who wrote on the official speaker’s website Monday that not only should Obama do more — he should take personal responsibility for the natural disaster: “The president continues to blame anyone and everyone for the drought but himself.”

Following a round of Internet mockery: The post now includes changed language, and an update.

New campaign, same old tricks.

Jeff Flake: Vote for me, though I would prefer you not be able to.

The Romney campaign’s attempt to zoom past the fact that Paul Ryan called for the same $700 billion worth of Medicare cuts that President Obama made a part of the Affordable Care Act is clearly a work in progress. Witness John Sununu this morning.

A new poll puts President Obama up 3 in Ohio — up 10 with independents.

Paul Ryan enters the race and our PollTracker Editor Kyle Leighton looks at his impact.

Things get bitter.

A judge won’t stop Pennsylvania’s controversial voter ID law.

Mitt Romney’s act of high dudgeon may have hit a new gear yesterday, but the tactic itself is old hat for his campaign. Evan McMorris-Santoro explains.

Ayn Rand devotees aren’t wholeheartedly celebrating Paul Ryan, though he has said the novelist “triggered my interest in economics.”

Why the tepid embrace? Ryan presents a double-edged sword: He’ll help draw attention to Rand’s views, but his disavowal of her social libertarian streak means that if elected, Ryan won’t “embody all parts of Ayn Rand’s vision.”