For years President Obama has maintained that he had no legal authority to slow deportations of illegal immigrants. But politico.com points out he has done a colossal flip-flop. Now he says he will use his executive power "to fix as much of our immigration system as I can on my own, without Congress."



No news is too incidental for Washington's Roll Call newspaper to report. Here are a couple of examples:

It was "DC Constituent Service Day" on Capitol Hill and a group of activists from the District of Columbia filled the hallway outside the office of Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., to voice their concerns. One man thought the congressman ought to do something about a nuisance in his neighborhood. Showing a photograph, he said, "This is a porta-potty outside my house. You can smell it."

"I'll come up with a better word if I can think of one." - Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., after being reprimanded by a committee chairman for calling Republicans "cuckoo clocks."