- As debt ceiling talks move to the White House, revenue remains the sticking point.
- A heavy lift may require Nancy Pelosi.
- Crossroads GPS plans $20 million early ad campaign hitting Obama on the economy:
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- Geithner on substantial deficit redution:
We don’t see a realistic path to solving all this at once in the next few weeks. It’s just not possible. What we’re trying to do is a framework where there’s a substantial down payment of spending reforms that lock in deficit reduction over a 10-year period. Then a framework of constraints—we call it a debt fail-safe, or a set of targets and triggers—that will force the remaining deficit reduction to happen soon enough so we don’t fall behind the curve in this.
- Pawlenty’s not dead in Iowa, but Bachmann’s surge is surely giving him fits.
- The L.A. Times scopes out her government-subsidized farm income.
- Esquire profiles Huntsman as general election threat.
- Wisconsin labor law led to fisticuffs in the state’s supreme court.
- Gay marriage as Cuomo’s triumph.
- Megabanks will get hit with capital surcharge.
- And I’ve been on vacation for a week, but as far as I can tell, the most important thing I missed was 500 still frames of Joe Biden eating a sandwich, right?