- Syria escalates full-scale crackdown.
- What John Boehner will tell Wall Street about the debt ceiling.
- Gas prices may have peaked.
- The housing market has yet to hit bottom: the homebuyers’ tax credit’s benefits were fleeting and prices have been dropping for 57 consecutive months.
- The Affordable Care Act arrives at the appellate level this week. If it’s anything like the district level, the party of the President who appointed the TBD judges that will rule on these cases is the best predictor for the outcome. Ultimately, this is still a contest among plaintiffs to see who will land before the Supreme Court.
- Obama eyes a return to immigration reform.
- Americans are fine with not seeing the bin Laden photo.
- His death has won Obama a bounce in Virginia. Tim Kaine and George Allen begin the Commonwealth’s Senate race tied.
- Jon Huntsman “will be deciding over the next two to three weeks whether there is critical mass.”
- Herman Cain has a TARP problem.
- The Times examines Nuclear Regulatory Commission fecklessness.
- And SNL holds the “undeclared candidates debate”:
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