It having been proven (again, and again, and again) that President Obama is indeed a citizen of these United States of America, what’s left of the ‘birther’ brigade has been getting busy inventing other alternate histories. But not everyone on the lunatic fringe is happy about it.

Senate Republicans back Speaker Boehner’s call for another debt limit showdown.

The new Washington Post/ABC poll shows independents are pretty negative on Gov. Romney’s proposal to repeal ‘Obamacare’ root and branch — yet at the same time, fairly big majorities of voters say they want the law repealed.

Bloomberg says Facebook Co-founder could save a cool $67 million by dumping his US citizenship.

The House votes today on the Violence Against Women Act, with Republicans introducing amendments to tone down their version and escape some of the heat they’re getting and Democrats saying, not good enough.

Besides non-stop coverage of politics, one of my biggest interests with TPM over the years has been books — reviewing them, discussing them with readers and so forth. And we’re planning a new section of the site to do that in a more compelling and on-going way. But for today, I have a more specific question. Read More

JP Morgan can do all the proprietary trading it wants, Paul Volcker tells Bill Moyers — it just has to surrender its banking license.

Speaker Boehner’s insistence that no increase in the debt limit is possible without corresponding dollar-for-dollar budget reductions does not apply to the House GOP’s own Ryan budget.

The National Coalition for Men has endorsed the House GOP’s version of the Violence Against Women Act.

Three polls out in the last few days show a very consistent picture. Gov. Scott Walker has a small but solid lead over Democrat Tom Barrett in the Wisconsin recall election. The TPM Poll Average has it at Walker 50.5% to Barrett 44.2%.