In an op-ed in Politico today, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has taken a firm stand against Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. And that's great. It's about time that someone took on Bobby Jindal for doing all the stuff Bobby Jindal's been doing lately that Bobby Jindal is just sick...

Every interview with Politico's two-headed hydra, John Harris and Jim VandeHei, is a tiny little puzzle-box treasure. And credit must be dispensed: They are at least honest. Or perhaps a better way of putting it is that they are quasi-honest. 'Tis a high-fructose corn honesty, basically, redolent of cloying cheapness,...

Well, good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome back to your usual weekly helping of your Sunday Morning political chat show liveblog. My name is Jason, and this week, the New York Times weighed in on these Sunday shows and deemed them to be terrible. Of course, they...

Lord knows I should expect no end of perplexing behavior from Florida's fraud-tastic supervillain governor Rick Scott, but I am truly perplexed by one of his recent decisions. No, I'm not talking about his decision to sign a bill that blocks municipalities from enacting their own...

For those of you keeping up with the myriad reasons that the current push for comprehensive immigration reform might come to nothing -- which include "the vagaries amendment process might lead Marco Rubio to abandon his bill" and "the perpetual existence of Lindsay Graham, slayer of...

Via Kevin Drum comes a story of something that was pretty much bound to happen in the wake of disclosures that the National Security Agency has been trolling and collecting the "telephony metadata" of American citizens for years. The lawyer for a man named Terrance Brown, the alleged...

This morning the Supreme Court rendered its decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., a fairly interesting case in which patents held by Myriad Genetics were thrown out on the grounds that DNA that the company had isolated in developing tests for breast and ovarian...

The Washington area's National Football League team has a racist name, "the Redskins," and renewed pressure is mounting on the team to do something about it -- namely, change the damn name of the team to something that isn't plainly risible. Washington's owner, Dan Snyder, is resistant to it,

It isn't every day that something actually interesting happens at a Beltway soiree, but last week, there was something of a near-miss "La Cage aux Folles" moment at the June 5 fete held by the Victory Fund -- a political action committee dedicated to electing and supporting LGBT politicians --...

Last week, the Stein Eriksen Lodge in Park City, Utah, hosted Mitt Romney's Experts and Enthusiasts conference. Billed as Romney's first big splash back into public/political life since the 2012 election, the conference brought together a multi-partisan array of political bigwigs, along with a multitude of private equity enthusiasts, to...

David Brooks has really only got one thing to say about the world, and that is that we live in an "atomized" society. He writes about this over and over again; it's pretty much the only insight he brings to the table. His fellow...

I know it seems like there are a lot of very important things going on the world for both the people who are connected to the policymaking apparatus and the people who cover people connected to the policymaking apparatus to be doing right now, what with the wars, the economy,...

California played host to what I believe is the nation's first ever "Birther" gaper's block yesterday, as a gaggle of Tea Party activists staged an "Impeach Obama" rally on an overpass on Interstate 5 near Carlsbad, Calif. According to the Carlsbad Patch, traffic was lightly snarled as looky-loos...

Well good morning everyone and welcome to your latest Sunday Morning Liveblog. My name is Jason. I have to say, knowing as I know now that the NSA "can watch your ideas form as you type," I am a little upset that after all those times I've written stuff...

Then there is the disaster happening on the field. Heading into Friday night, the Nationals were 29-30 and in third place in the National League East behind the Atlanta Braves (tomahawk chop = worst cheer ever) and some team called the Philadelphia Phillies. This for a Nats squad that both...

With the death of longtime New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D), Republican Gov. Chris Christie has named someone to temporarily fill the seat until New Jersey holds a $24 million special election in October. The guy who Christie named to fill in is his attorney general, Jeff Chiesa,...

Once upon a time, Mitt Romney probably really was the future of the Republican Party. But the further he moved into the future, the more the Republican Party didn't want him talking about the things that made him so darned futuristic, like his landmark health care reform law (which earned...

America, here's hoping you've had enough time to come to terms with the National Security Agency scooping up all of your metadata pertaining to all of the phone calls you've been making with Verizon, because here comes the next fun news about the government's far-reaching panopticon of total...

On Thursday, John Bresnahan and Jake Sherman reported that Republican leaders in the House were mounting a campaign to get House Oversight Committee chairman and catch-all "-ghazi" inquisitor Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) to maybe take a deep breath, already. "GOP leaders," the Politico duo reported, were fretting that "the...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) joins Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) today in being forced into a state of agita over the revelation that the NSA has been "collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon." In a statement, Durbin says that the disclosure is...