- Don’t Ask Don’t Tell dies today: a eulogy, and what one gay officer looks forward to.
- Obama loses David Brooks.
- Joe Nocera argues we should ignore the fiscal circus, focus on the Fed.
- Roy Blunt will lead Romney’s Capitol Hill outreach, as he did for Bush in 2000.
- Michael Gerson finds Romney “reassuring.”
- Bachmann has disappeared in USA Today/Gallup’s latest: She’s at 5% to Perry’s 31% and Romney’s 24%.
- Andrew Cuomo is still insanely popular.
- A look at Obama’s proposed Medicare and Medicaid cuts.
- And Newt Gingrich will unveil a “very visionary” Contract With America, likely breaking the self-parody barrier in the process.