Liz Cheney kicks off campaign by saying her 69 year old opponent Mike Enzi is “confused.” Watch.

Getting a jump on Rick Perry’s nationwide tour to lure businesses to Texas, Lewis Black tells Perry the main reason we live in New York is because “it’s not Texas.” Watch.

Immigration reform is currently dying in the House of Representatives. And it’s written in the constitution that August is when crazy stuff happens in townhalls because people are upset about things happening in Washington. So which side turns out at these events in greater numbers and motivation? Which Reps and Senators just refuse to hold meetings altogether? Does the White House continue to pretend that reform isn’t dead and thus make no effort to move the debate to the political and campaign forum? And is there a future for Marco Rubio?

I’m going to be running a TPMPrime Live Chat with Steven Fish, a political scientist at UC Berkley, on the current situation in Egypt at 5:30 PM this afternoon. Please get your questions in now and join us then.

The Gallup Organization … Not only did they spend most of last year confusing and bamboozling the country with their dodgy poll numbers. They were also padding their extensive vendor contracts with the US government. Now they’ve been compelled to cough up $10.5 million to the US government.

Noted minority vote suppressor tells VRA hearing that “the systematic, widespread discrimination against blacks has long since disappeared.”

As I’ve noted elsewhere, I believe immigration reform is quite likely dead, unless its biggest supporters accept that fact and take the fight into the political and campaign arena rather than letting it die a slow death of opacity on Capitol Hill.

But it’s not too soon to note the main political fatality: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). Read More

Colorado town considers proposal to award bounties for shooting down drones.

Gunman arrested outside the White House said he was only going to “fire a couple of shots.”

Earlier this year, House Republicans voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Yesterday, they voted to delay its individual mandate for a year, which would severely undermine the roll out of the law. Later this year, some Republicans will insist again on defunding implementation under threat of a government shutdown. I wouldn’t be surprised if those same Republicans try to axe Obamacare during the fight over raising the debt limit.

But after that, I think there’s a good chance that the legislative assaults against the ACA will stop. That all depends on how smoothly the roll out goes. But if enrollment goes as planned, and the problems are minor and temporary, the whole question of repealing the law will take on a completely different character than it has right now. Right now, repealing the law entails rescinding some real, but fairly ancillary benefits. After January 1, voting for repeal will mean voting to kick a small country’s worth of people off of their health insurance. Read More