- Obama won a tactical victory on the payroll tax cut, if not a particularly substantive one.
- Charles Krauthammer thinks Republicans got played.
- The House is poised to pass the two-month deal today.
- Vice President Biden counters Romney in a Des Moines op-ed, implicitly ties him to Bush 43.
- Romney’s on track for his biggest fundraising quarter yet.
- With Ron Paul’s success come questions about race wars, 9/11 and all manner of things.
- PolitiFact editor says critics are rubes who’ve been duped by the echo-chamber.
- The Fed may signal low rates through 2014.
- Santorum pitches himself with kids and an homage to a VH1 nostalgia show.
- And any resemblance Newt Gingrich’s campaign bears to a circus is purely incidental.