Snow, and lots of it.
NY Times:
A powerful snowstorm, the second to sweep across the Northeast in less than a week, took aim at the New York area on Wednesday morning, closing city schools and the United Nations, threatening to play havoc with commuter schedules.
Ezra Klein on John Boehner's 'ransom note':
Just screams "we would like to cooperate with you to reform the American health-care system," doesn't it? But don't take my word for it: You'll really want to read the whole thing. These are not folks who concern themselves with the appearance of good faith. The only thing missing is an obscure riddle that Obama must answer before he can speak to Mitch McConnell.
Maureen Dowd:
Captain 3-D, a 42-year-old Northern Ireland native, is also known as the resident "hurl-o-meter" at DreamWorks, the guy who goes through every frame to adjust the amount of depth, dial the intensity up or down, and fix the right-eye/left-eye camera settings so that moviegoers can enjoy dragons skydiving past them without having to turn their popcorn bags into motion-sickness bags.
"I am certain that it is not good to be in a business in which the result of what you do is to make people hurl," says Jeffrey Katzenberg, the C.E.O. of DreamWorks Animation.
I dunno. Those were always the best roller coasters.
WaPo poll: Obama holds steady at 51, people think Congress sucks. That's because it does.
Asked how they would vote in the November House elections, Americans split evenly -- 46 percent siding with the Democrats, 46 percent with the Republicans. As recently as four months ago, Democrats held a 51 to 39 percent advantage on this question.
Pass health reform or start writing your memoirs.
Matthew Rothschild:
I’m not writing her off. No matter how many gaffes she makes, no matter what she writes on her palm, she is not going away.
In fact, she may very well be the Republican nominee in 2012, and if the economy hasn’t recovered by then, there’s an outside chance she could win the White House.
It's true she isn't going away, but there's no chance for the White House. in fact, thinking there is is why she doesn't go away. That, and the money.
Politics AP from Miami Herald:
Ronald Reagan singled out what he called a "welfare queen" for abusing government aid. Newt Gingrich pushed welfare reform as part of his Contract With America.
Now, Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner, the top Republican candidates for California governor, are bringing back welfare as a key issue in their quest for primary votes. Welfare's high-profile role in the race became clear last month when Whitman, the billionaire former CEO of eBay, unveiled her first issue-specific radio ad.
Oy.