- The consensus on last night’s GOP presidential primary debate —Bachmann emerged, Romney skated to victory — is so ubiquitous it’s almost unsettling.
- It largely reflects public polling, but the scant sections of the debate on foreign policy were the least hawkish of any GOP forum in recent memory.
- The debate may have widened the opening for Rick Perry to jump into the race.
- Perry heads to New York to address Republicans today; he’s seeking an audience with the Wall Street Journal‘s ed board.
- Drudge still hearts Romney.
- As Biden’s debt ceiling talks enter the stretch run, Democrats and Republicans are still $1.1 trillion apart on spending cuts.
- Obama’s Puerto Rico trip is the first by a U.S. President in half a century; social problems and political opportunity abound.
- New York edges ever closer to gay marriage.
- The Washington Post profiles Clinton’s image-keeper.
- Tammy Duckworth resigns from the VA with a House run possibly in the works.
- And don’t tell the Dalai Lama that one joke:
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