Welcome back from the holiday! We hope your fireworks celebration lasted longer than San Diego's. We hope you ate some good BBQ, but hopefully less hotdogs than Joey Chestnut (68). His stomach must be as twisted as Mitt Romney's clarifications about the individual mandate. Boom. Here are some stories informing the rundown for the Last Word tonight:
- Romney's response to Obamacare mandate reveals larger campaign problems
- Obama's bus tour to kick off today in Ohio
- Bobby Jindal and Tim Pawlenty shadowing Obama at tour stops
- San Diego firework malfunction causes 30 seconds of fireworks to go off all at once
- Alabama pastor holds "Whites Only" Christian conference
- Bloomberg asks pun-loving speechwriters, 'Who wrote this s#!t'
- Former Scientology inspector general explains what Katie Holmes is up against
- 'Kenneth the Page' responds to Bobby Jindal comparison