But still not any White House Tours until the Republicans cave on the Sequester entirely.

How far into Monday will we get before he does the Cory Booker two-step backwards?

Filibuster is a grand idea. It will force vulnerable Dems to vote for something that has a real potential to destroy their re-election bid in November, 2014. (If Obamacare hasn't already blasted away any chance they had to keep control of the Senate). Progressives need to face voters instead of hiding behind Harry Reid's procedural petticoats. They have to run for re-election on a budget that never balances, Obamacare that doesn't work and now gun control that most voters don't want.

I hope Mayor Bloomberg and President Obama are very successful in their campaign to get the Democrats to vote for gun control. Combined with the now inevitable backlash from implementation of Obamacare during 2014, passage of comprehensive gun control would pretty much assure super-majorities for Republicans in the House and Senate in the mid-term elections.

Why is it Democrats are reported as evolving on same sex marriage but Republicans as pandering? So many mysteries. So little time to unravel them.

Mr. Perez gave a truthful, yet lawyer's answer. He was asked a specific question. Was any "Political Leadership" involved in the decision? The answer was true because Loretta King and with Steve Rosenbaum were (ostensibly) career Justice Department employees not appointed by the Obama administration (though. let's be clear both are Progressives). Thus, decisions made (even if they consulted with the President and Eric Holder) weren't made by Political Leadership. They were made by Loretta King, a career Justice Department lawyer.

We need to stop pretending the 10 years of cuts is taking place now. The graph is showing cuts spread over 10 years. The actual annual cuts are merely slowing down the annual growth. Somehow our fearless leaders in Washington consider even slowing down from an 8-10% annual increase in spending as a "cut". The fact is the cuts are minuscule each fiscal year. Only $42.7 billion out of a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal year 2013, which began Oct 1, 2012 and ends Sept 30, 2013. Then $85 billion for fiscal 2014 and so on. There isn't any guarantee future congresses will even allow the "cuts" to continue. Even if our dear leaders increased taxes to 90% for everyone, they'd find a way to spend more than they take in.

The president is proposing $83 billion in new spending without increasing the budget deficit. He will do this by increasing taxes on rich people and closing their tax loopholes. So where is this balanced approach to cutting spending? We'll, he's counting theoretical funds not spent on the Iraq War and imaginary funds soon to be not spent on the Afghanistan War. Next we can pretend that we would have purchased China and then pretend that we saved money by not purchasing China.

God isn't too popular, either, but She polls well with true-believers. Same thing for Barack Obama. He's a religion. Doesn't matter what the polls show, his followers will be forever aglow.

The article is incorrect. Starting in 2014 every family will pay the $95 fine and not buy the $20,000 policy.

Good explanation of how supply side works and tax and spend doesn't. We can only hope this president will be followed by a Republican. If the economy never comes back during Obama's second term, we will have a Republican president in 2016.