From this morning's Earlybird:

• "Four independent groups are launching more than $1 million in attack ads" today "targeting five House Republicans who voted against energy legislation in June, spokespeople for the groups said," Politico reports. "The ads from the League of Conservation Voters, the Sierra Club, MoveOn and Americans United for Change, will target Reps. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.), Denny Rehberg (R- Mont.), Roy Blunt (R- Mo.) and two Virginia Republicans, Frank Wolf and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor."

• "Faced with a souring public mood on health care reform, Democrats and their supporters are launching a national grassroots push Wednesday to show lawmakers that the majority of Americans still support overhauling the system," Politico reports. The Democratic National Committee, Organizing for America and Health Care for America Now "are planning to hold more than 500 events between Wednesday and when lawmakers return to Washington Sept. 8, ranging from neighborhood organized phone banks to professionally staffed rallies with hundreds of people."