Blanche Lincoln can threaten to filibuster her own party’s bill, and she never even gets a call. But Dennis Kucinich, on the other hand, stands up for a key principle of health care reform that Obama campaigned on — and gets a personal visit from Air Force One.

It is reassuring to learn that the President is both listening to serious policy advisers while taking advantage of experienced, successful political advisers to get those policies enacted. So they must be succeeding, right?

As soon as the new unemployment numbers are out, the first question everyone should ask is “where’s the Administration’s jobs program?”