- If you missed it: Full text and video of Obama’s stimulus speech.
- Paul Krugman was pleased by parts of the plan and the rhetorical shift from austerity.
- Conservatives aren’t going to go for it.
- Ben Bernanke is mum on further action from the Fed, but it could come this month.
- Mitt Romney’s line on Perry: “If we nominate someone who the Democrats can correctly characterize as being opposed to Social Security, we will be obliterated as a party.”
- Congresses passes major patent reform for the first time since 1952.
- “Credible” but unconfirmed intelligence from Pakistan warns of car or truck bomb plots in D.C. or New York.
- And 92% of 15- to 30-year-old men in two southern provinces where Americans are fighting have never heard of 9/11.