Mitt Romney still hasn’t come up with a position on whether or not he’d reverse President Obama’s new immigration order.

I guess depending on your age, hearing that Paul McCartney turns 70 today either makes you feel old or say “Who’s Paul McCartney?”

Did you know that the Bush and Obama administrations helped run guns into Mexico as part of a secret conspiracy to build support for gun control to take away your guns and your lawn furniture?

No. Well, these members of Congress have a conspiracy theory that will set you straight.

Ezra Klein explores the GOP’s unanimous turn against the individual mandate as an example of motivated reasoning: Partisans convincing themselves that their prior views about health care policy were wrong in order to deny political enemies a key victory.

I have a very different read. And I think it can be applied broadly — not just to the mandate, but to cap-and-trade legislation, the payroll tax cut, policy objectives on both sides of the aisle. Read More

Rubio says White House never called him about immigration move.

In today’s episode of The Set-Up, I look at the spot in which President Obama’s immigration announcement has put Mitt Romney.

George Zimmerman, not at all talented at speaking in code:

“Because he can only take it from PayPal Peter Pan to mine.”

Likely voters overwhelmingly support President Obama’s immigration move.

Meanwhile, as Sahil Kapur explains, Obama has provoked an intense backlash to the move among conservative Republicans which is mainly causing problems for Mitt Romney. To understand what the White House’s move was really about be sure to check out Sahil’s piece.

Here at TPM we watch more Fox News than is probably healthy — hazards of the business and what not.

Among our favorite parts of the ‘Fair and Balanced’ parade are the relentlessly theatrical promos.

Behold then, in a piece of work that would doubtless break Alex DeLarge, the ultimate Fox News Promo.

A nice mix of stories today from our stable of reporters, rounding out to a big picture of where the election is today. We now face an election with at best a tepid US economy — Brian Beutler looks at how the fate of the US economy hinges on the management and outcome of the EuroZone crisis, which is almost entirely outside its control. And that’s forced the president back from the broad ‘Morning in America-lite’ campaign they were hoping for last winter to a tighter and more hard fought blocking and tackling over critical demographic groups in in a handful of states. Read More