- Thursday is John Roberts’ big moment.
- Justice Scalia’s best dissents.
- Arizona law enforcers sweat as “papers please” goes into effect.
Must Reads
Morning Must Reads: Obamacare
Welcome to Health Care Decision Week 2012. Knowledgeable sources say the Supreme Court’s ruling will be coming out today or Thursday or Tuesday or Wednesday, so put on your best black robe and read the following pieces of perishable wisdom.
- Various stakeholders are poised and ready to freak out.
- The finger-pointing has already
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Morning Must Reads: Memo
- The Washington Post covers outsourcing under Romney at Bain from, uh, all sides.
- Moody’s cuts the credit rating of 15 big banks (some of whom got mighty preachy during that whole S&P debt ceiling thing.)
- Speaker Boehner says no excessive celebration if the court overturns Obamcare.
Morning Must Reads: Dial
- The Fed meets to weigh further stimulus.
- Jamie Dimon’s House testimony in 11 tweets.
- The Obama Administration’s drone death figures are wrong.
Morning Must Reads: Vetted
- Bloomberg polls Obama’s deportation waivers, finds likely voters favor it 2-1.
- Obama’s nominee for ambassador to Iraq withdraws after affair reports.
- Report: Rubio’s not being vetted for veep.
Morning Must Reads: Weight
- Greek elections favor the pro-bailout party, meaning no exit for now.
- Romney can’t say he’d roll back Obama’s DREAM by fiat.
- The President explains himself in these pages.
- A visit with the uninsured and unaware.
Morning Must Reads: Clerks
- Obama tries to make Romney’s policies the incumbent.
- Do gaffes matter? I suspect you know what I think.
- Now is the time when we analyze the far-reaching implications of Obama using “Mr. Romney” instead of “governor.”
Morning Must Reads: Fall
- Obama will take another crack a making economic contrast work.
- Romney puts “the private sector is doing fine” on TV.
- Jim Messina’s crash course with corporate titans.
Morning Must Reads: Risk
- Jamie Dimon was complacent about risk.
- Here’s what he’ll tell Congresss today.
- Here’s what Occupy the SEC thinks Congress should ask him.
- Noam Scheiber re-argues the point that Mitt Romney has taken up: health reform displaced more stimulus.
Morning Must Reads: Change
- Median family net worth has dropped to early ’90s levels (from $126,400 in 2007 to $77,300 in 2010).
- No matter what the court decides, three major health insurers will keep parts of Obamacare. (Covering preventive care and young adults saves them money.)
- People try too hard to define Obama.
Morning Must Reads: Wrong
- A Senate Gang of TBD begins work to disarm Congress’s time bomb.
- In North Dakota, an entirely different kind of fiscal conundrum.
- Presidential elections are mostly a spectator sport in the United States of Battleground America.
- After seeing about 50 of these stories, I figure it’s worth warning you: They’re very, very misleading.
Morning Must Reads: Forecast
- Nate Silver’s first election forecast pegs Obama as roughly a 60% favorite.
- Romney and the RNC out-raise Obama and the DNC for the first time: $77 million in May.
- Ben Bernanke offers no hint of new monetary stimulus. And why would he? Congress applies more political pressure on price stability than on employment.
Morning Must Reads: La Jolla
- Surrounded by gay couples and choom gangs, the Romneys settle into La Jolla.
- The Mitt Romney e-mail hacker is very, very sorry.
- Labor’s decline has been slow, but long-running.