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The GOP "intelligentsia' wants to skip Cantor and go with Ryan. Filling in for Bill O'Reilly last night Laura Ingraham says her source on the Hill told her there is…

It is a little ironic that the same people who are so jazzed by indulging in empty flag waving jingoism, are the very same ones who claim to be cold…

As TPM's Josh Marshall points out, this doesn’t square with what we think we know about President Obama’s negotiating style.   But, if true,  it warms the heart: From the Journal…

UPDATE: The fact that the NRA is a lunatic organization appears to be entering the national zietgiest.

Boehner is now a SPINO, "Speaker in name only." He didn't have the votes to pass "Plan B" and he doesn't have enough votes to close a deal with the President prior to going down the fiscal slope. He doesn't even have standing to negotiate.

10. The decorations are pretty cool. 9. It's the White House, which is cool even without decorations. 8. Standing in line in Washington on a December evening is lovely. 7. The President and the first family are upstairs, probably wrapping presents. 6. Portraits of good Presidents given prominent locations. 5 Portraits of Republican Presidents shunted into dark corners. 4. Awesome National Archives exhibit on the Cuban Missile Crisis just blocks away. 3. Possible C.J. Cregg and Sam Seaborn sightings. 2. People still dress up to tour the White House. 1. President Obama won. Suck it Boehner.

John Sigler's tenure as the Crown Prince of Crazytown has been an unmitigated disaster for the DE GOP. Therefor, it behooves all clear thinking Dems to help him retain his…

With Obama wavering, negotiations over the so-called fiscal cliff are heading in a disastrous direction. John Boehner bought some leverage with his "Plan B" -- if they pass it in…

"Tradition trumped suspense Monday as members of the Electoral College cast the official, final votes in an exhausting 2012 presidential election, a constitutional formality on President Barack Obama's march to a second term," the AP reports. The casting of votes occurred in each of the 50 state capitol buildings and in D.C. In Arizona, the crazy racist birthers there took the opportunity to once again complain that a white man is not president. "[T]hree of [Arizona's 11 Electors] said questions remain about whether Barack Obama was born in this country," Arizona Public Radio reports. Said state GOP Chairman Tom Morrissey: "I'm not satisfied with what I've seen. I think for somebody in the president's position to not have produced a document that looks more legitimate, I have a problem with that." Birther Arizona elector tells TPM: "Yeah, some people are going to say, 'Oh, those stupid Arizonans, there they go again.' But, you know, I'd rather be right than popular." In this case, you are neither. I hereby demand that all three produce their original long form birth certificates. I can tell them preemptively that I will find all three illegitimate and demand their immediate deportation to Europe.