- The scope of Obama’s upcoming stimulus proposal remains unclear.
- Alan Krueger, the new White House Council of Economic Advisers chair, may be better equipped to offer small bore creativity than a grand design to increase demand.
- A quick survey of Krueger’s academic work.
- The White House distributes talking points for 9/11’s 10th anniversary.
- Peter Kaplan’s New York essay is not a bad place to start the decennial retrospective.
- Rick Perry is out front in another national poll.
- He’s returned to calling Social Security a “Ponzi scheme” and recommending his book on the trail.
- Not a conversation Mitt Romney should be having:
It’s not accurate, Romney said, simply. The application he made, two years ago, was to double the living space by turning one story into two. The “quadrupling’’ was a measurement of added nonliving space, including a basement and garage.
- Matt Ygelsias imagines Gore’s presidency.
- With some time out of the public eye, health reform becomes less polarizing, but not any more popular.
- Kentucky’s Democratic governor brags, “we reduced the number of state workers to the smallest level in almost 40 years.”
- And Bachmann’s name fools Jewish donors. (C’mon, double n?)