Editors’ Blog - 2013
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03.12.13 | 4:44 am
How It Played

The NYC tabs have a field day with the overturning of the Big Gulp ban.

03.12.13 | 4:51 am
What is a Pathway to Citizenship?

One of the central confusions and obfuscations of immigration reform is the so-called ‘pathway to citizenship’. So today we look at just what a ‘real’ pathway to citizenship looks like.

03.12.13 | 5:19 am
Pope-Pouri!

With the papal conclave now underway, check out our special Pope election cheat sheet.

03.12.13 | 5:22 am
So This Happened

Palin celebrates ‘victory in NYC for Liberty-loving soda drinkers’. Diabetes Smash!

03.12.13 | 7:46 am
So Sad

Explaining his election night meltdown, Rove says media should stop calling elections prematurely, could learn something from conclave model. Watch.

03.12.13 | 8:30 am
Ahmadinejad Too Freaky At Chavez Funeral

This is bizarrely awesome. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is under fire from clerics at home for embracing the mother of Hugo Chavez at Chavez’s funeral.

03.12.13 | 8:43 am
A Brief Defense Of Paul Ryan

I’ll post more thoughts on the House GOP’s new-budget-same-as-the-old budget shortly. But first I want to make a quick observation about one of Paul Ryan’s perceived inconsistencies, because I think it’s a big distraction from more important things.

At a press conference this morning, Ryan said there’s nothing hypocritical about Republicans preserving revenues from a recent income tax increase they claim to hate because “law is law.” “We’re not going to refight the past,” he reiterated.

This he said as he introduced a budget that proposes to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Read More

03.12.13 | 9:12 am
Is Pelosi Nuts?

TPM Reader SW is no fan of Nancy Pelosi’s call for the feds to not interfere in Colorado’s decision to legalize marijuana within the state …

Maybe I’m missing something here, but did Nancy Pelosi just come out in favor of “nullification”?

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03.12.13 | 9:22 am
Resetting The Debate

We still don’t know all the specifics. But this week Senate Democrats will introduce a budget that resets the fiscal policy debate to the status quo ante, before President Obama and John Boehner settled in for failed fiscal cliff negotiations. Read More