"It would be a big mistake for everyone to jump to a conclusion now based on the release of this document, which raises as many questions as it answers." -- Joseph Farah, founder/editor of World Net Daily and key figure in the birther movement on today's release of President Obama's long-form birth certificate.
#longformbirtherism
--Josh Marshall
Reid confirms that he'll hold a vote in the Senate on the Ryan budget resolution with its Medicare phase out plan.
So far only Susan Collins has said she'll vote against the Medicare Phase Out plan and the rest of the Ryan budget resolution.
I'm very curious to hear what other Senators have said so far about the Medicare Phase Out plan. If you've got press clips, send them my way.
--Josh Marshall
Harry Reid will force GOP senators to vote on Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan that already passed the House.
--David Kurtz
Birther Queen Orly Taitz responds to release of Birth Certificate. She's not buying it, says document should say "Negro" not "African."
#longformbirthers
--Josh Marshall
Trump: I solved the birth certificate mystery. Now, where's your school records?
--Josh Marshall
We caught up with Newt Gingrich this morning, and he became the first GOP presidential hopeful to weigh in on the birth certificate release: "Why did it take so long?"
--David Kurtz
It's surreal and weird and faintly ridiculous that it's come to this. But this morning the White House caught the press corps seriously off guard by handing out copies of the anti-Holy Grail of birtherism, the fabled 'long form' birth certificate. And here's the actual birth certificate.
Late Update: Apparently the president is actually going to make a statement shortly affirming his birth in the US, presumably because the release of the long form document might reduce the level of lunatic frivolity in the public square and they feel the need to bring it back up to make things even more ridiculous.
Later Update: Unconfirmed reports from around the country that sane people may actually jump out windows if president actually addresses this birth certificate issue directly in his morning statement rather than national security team shake up.
Inside the Madness Update: TPM is officially announcing the birth of 'long-form birtherism'. Just as it is widely attested in the sociological literature that messianic and apocalyptic cults frequently become more intense in their belief, the same pattern will now create so-called 'Long-form birthers'. Normative religious scholars are objecting that a more proper analogy might be to the various sects of Shi'a Islam which believe in different Imams as the final legitimate Imam in the succession of Ali.
--Josh Marshall
AP reporting that President will nominate Panetta to replace Bob Gates at the Pentagon; and Petraeus to replace Panetta at CIA.
--Josh Marshall
Feast your eyes on the open vistas of clean, green alternative energy sources.
--Josh Marshall
Attorney General Eric Holder is defending former Solicitor General Paul Clement who resigned yesterday from the law firm of King & Spalding over their decision to pull out of the DOMA defense. Holder compares the move to the smears attorneys suffered for defending Gitmo detainees.
--Josh Marshall
Gov. Jindal is still fixing to sell off Louisiana's highly successfully state employee health insurance system ... and pocket its hefty budget surplus for other purposes. Now the program administrator Jindal canned is speaking out.
--Josh Marshall
Republicans own go-to economist says we need to raise the debt ceiling soon.
--Josh Marshall
I've noted several times that when it comes to issues like Medicare and Social Security, establishment journalism is most focused on whether political rhetoric is inflammatory than on whether it might be true. Or put a different way, the details of how key government programs work is of comparatively trivial importance compared to whether the ads a controversy generates are mean. As yet another instance of this, we have the unfortunate example of ABC's Rick Klein's report on the new politics of Medicare.
--Josh Marshall
Speaker Boehner says the Ryan plan "transforms Medicare into a plan that's very similar to the President's own healthcare bill."
Only older people are sicker and more expensive to cover and Ryan doesn't provide the funds for seniors to buy care. Beside that they're identical.
--Josh Marshall
Obama tells Boehner: Great to hear you want to drop oil subsidies, let's agree to that right now!
--Josh Marshall
Sen. Franken (D-MN) to hold hearings into iPhone tracking issue.
--Josh Marshall
AZ Republican Gov. Brewer says the dark scourge of birtherism is "leading our country down a path of destruction." Watch it.
--Josh Marshall
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