Gov. Perry (R-Mansplainia): I was “praising” Wendy Davis when I said it was unfortunate she didn’t learn any lessons from being a teenage mother.
From Brian Beutler: Dems set wheels in motion on revising Voting Rights Act.
See this post from yesterday on my take on how the politics of this fall out.
To paraphrase so much political wisdom, if you’re a pol, if you’re discussing “the Rolex watch” you’re losing.
GOP Senate leaders send letters to pro sports leagues warning them not to cooperate with administration efforts to inform the public about new benefits available under Obamacare.
Democrats and Republicans managed to hash out an immigration bill that is unacceptable — to Republicans.
Now that the Senate’s passed an immigration bill, everyone wants to know what the House is going to do, and that’s fueling demand for the million or so theories, some more meritorious than others, about what happens next.
The most outside-the-box idea is that the House will ultimately pass the Senate bill because House Democrats will be able to force a vote on it.
Could this happen? Theoretically yes. Is it likely to? Almost definitely not. Read More
From CNN’s Ben Wedeman …
Photo: The anti-Morsi demonstrations are THE biggest I've ever seen in #Egypt. #30June pic.twitter.com/BTA0N18RVq
— benwedeman (@bencnn) June 30, 2013
There’s a lot of fascinating material in this Times article about the gargantuan protests this weekend in Egypt. But I think the most riveting may be the way the reporters capture how caught off guard President Morsi and his advisors were by the scale of the demonstrations. They are neither clearly accommodating or fully defiant. But at least from his spokesman seem almost literally at a loss for words …. Read More