- Obama will bring his political balancing act to the Facebook campus today. The Journal reports talks between Robert Gibbs and the company have fallen apart.
- Stan Collender thinks the Congress needs to get an initial failed debt ceiling vote out of the way to give cover for inevitable passage.
- Democratic independent expenditure group House Majority PAC will air radio ads on Paul Ryan’s Medicare cuts in 10 Republican districts as part of a six-figure buy.
- President Obama may try to use an executive order to force donor disclosure from companies that hold contracts with the government.
- The list of party representatives scheduled to attend Biden’s May 5 Blair House deficit summit should cure you of any optimism that the event will lead to consensus: Democrats are sending Sens. Inouye and Baucus, as well as Reps. Van Hollen and Clyburn; Republicans will dispatch Sen. Kyl and House Majority Leader Cantor. Neither Budget Committee chairmen and no Gang of Sixers are expected to be there.
- A convincing theory: Obama’s slump and gas prices.
- Bradley Manning is being moved to the Army prison at Fort Leavenworth.
- The coalition wades deeper into Libya.
- The parable of Sen. Inhofe’s runway debacle.
- And Fred Thompson tries to debunk widespread accounts of lethargy, aloofness and luxury footwear from his 2008 presidential run:
Ladies and gentlemen, I am prepared to take the oath: I am not now, and never have a been, a wearer of Gucci shoes. I have never tried a pair on. I have never been alone in the same room with a Gucci shoe. And I most certainly was not wearing a pair while I was visiting the pigs in Iowa. I must correct this slur upon my reputation!