- Santorum’s future: another run won’t be easy.
- Neither will returning to Fox News.
- Gawker has a mole in the House of Ailes, whose first transmission is a video of Romney talking about his horses, which isn’t exactly a state secret.
Must Reads
Morning Must Reads: Reality
- Obama out to a big approval rating lead vs. Romney, but hasn’t reached escape velocity from the slow recovery yet.
- He’s in Florida to sell the Buffett Rule and walk among the groves of money trees.
- Marco Rubio nurtures a risky friendship.
Morning Must Reads: Friends
- Crossroads, the most super PAC of all, readies its anti-Obama munitions.
- Where the President’s approval rating stands.
- How Bibi and Mitt became friends.
Morning Must Reads: Paltry
- The economy adds a paltry 120,000 jobs in March, missing expectations. A shrinking labor force drops unemployment to 8.2%., while the broader U-6 rate tumbles to 14.5%.
- As the Obama super PAC continues to struggle, blame flies around.
- The case that Rob Portman will be Romney’s vice presidential pick.
Morning Must Reads: Coin
- A volatile presidential primary gives way to a reliably coin-flip general election.
- The White House says people are misinterpreting Obama’s remark that the Supreme Court overturning the ACA would be “unprecedented.”
- One of those people: Obama’s mentor at Harvard Law, Laurence Tribe, who says the President misspoke.
Morning Must Reads: Over
- The political press corps calls an end to the GOP primary.
- The Wisconsin exit polls back them up.
- A good delegate projection tells us it’s over, even if Romney could fall 22 short of a majority.
Morning Must Reads: Preemptive
- Romney looks poised for a sweep in Wisconsin, Maryland and D.C., is likely to secure a majority of the day’s delegates.
- He’ll soon raise funds jointly with the RNC, a reflection of party officials eagerness to get to the general.
- Obama launches a preemptive strike on the Supreme Court.
- He’ll define the Ryan budget as “social
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Morning Must Reads: Solution
- Romney is winning men by 1 point, losing women to Obama by 18 in a dozen general election swing states.
- His vice presidential search has begun.
- John Heilemann handicaps potential candidates.
- John E. Sununu says go boring.
Morning Must Reads: Power
- Adam Liptak channels Anthony Kennedy.
- The number of words directed at each side points to a narrow ruling on Obamacare.
- Krugman feels the foreboding.
- Obama’s relationship with executive power.
Morning Must Reads: Contingency
- Slightly better signs for the mandate in day three of Supreme Court arguments.
- The White House insists there’s no contingency plan, nor one required.
- But Jon Chait, E.J. Dionne, et al. have already moved to judicial activism run amok columns.
Morning Must Reads: Zoo
- Before the court today: severability and the Medicaid expansion.
- Libertarian legal eminence Randy Barnett on Tuesday’s mandate arguments.
- A close-reading of Chief Justice John Roberts’ questioning.
- Why Anthony Kennedy’s search for a limiting principle may prove key.
Morning Must Reads: Mandate
- Clues from day 1 of Supreme Court health care arguments on the individual mandate, which is today’s topic.
- How Obama changed his mind on the mandate (and why he called the CBO “banana”).
- In case you needed a reminder, here are three new polls showing that the nation is split and a bit confused about the ACA.
Morning Must Reads: Primer
- A primer on what the Supreme Court will hear in health reform oral arguments and when.
- Is there a weak link in the government’s argument?
- Why Americans are skeptical about the Affordable Care Act.
- The Obama camp reclaims “Obamacare.”