- The economy appears to be in full stall: Just 54,000 jobs were added in May, the unemployment rate rose to 9.1% and data from April and March were revised down.
- The unemployment rate matters for incumbent presidential reelection efforts, but it’s not as simple as the topline number.
- Krugman sees two years of inadequacies coming to a head.
- Obama tells House Democrats he’ll never agree to extending top-tier Bush tax cuts again, though it sometimes seems to be the one chit the GOP leadership will take.
- Crunch time is approaching to get administration nominees confirmed.
- Acting is an important part of policy as well as politics.
- The China-based hackers who went after Gmail were targeting White House officials.
- Politifact gives Romney’s rollout a “pants on fire.”
- Huntsman not only declines to take shots, but calls him “a great man.”
- And Romney goes after the eagle-eyed speedreader demographic:
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