Fox Anchor Calls Out Paul Ryan's Budget Plan: Repealing Obamacare Is ‘Not Going To Happen’  —  On Sunday morning, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) stopped by Fox News Sunday to preview his new budget, which will be released in full on Tuesday.  As it had the past two years, this year's version will call …

TIMELINE: How Jeb Bush Pulled A 360 On Immigration Reform  —  Jeb Bush completed a whirlwind one-week journey on immigration on Sunday, praising a Senate proposal to grant eventual citizenship for undocumented immigrants after attacking the idea in a newly released book he co-authored that was itself a reversal of his past position.

House GOP leaders blindsided by defections on spending vote  —  House Republican leaders have a new problem.  They can't count on their members to support them on procedural votes.  —  Sixteen Republicans defected Wednesday in a vote on the rule governing consideration of a government-funding bill meant …

Monstrous  —  This is a kind of blood-curdling story I just learned about this afternoon.  Zerlina Maxwell is an acquaintance who I've watched from a distance as she builds a media career as a progressive pundit and activist — succeeding to an amazing degree while also getting a law degree.

Susan Rice as national security adviser?  U.N. ambassador said to be front-runner.  —  UNITED NATIONS — Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who lost out in a bruising bid for the job of secretary of state, may have the last laugh.  —  Rice has emerged as far and away …

‘Toaster Pastry Gun Freedom Act’ proposed in Maryland  —  A Maryland state senator has crafted a bill to curb the zeal of public school officials who are tempted to suspend students as young as kindergarten for having things — or talking about things, or eating things — that represent guns, but aren't actually anything like real guns.

Two Senators  —  This is from not-for-attribution interviews with two Republican senators who attended the dinner with the president on Wednesday night at the Jefferson Hotel in Washington.  —  One was heartened and impressed by the meeting while retaining his skepticism as to whether …

Former Newark Airport TSA screener says the job does little to keep fliers safe  —  It is perhaps America's most unsafe airport.  Despite being the launching point for one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 — Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania — Newark Airport has had numerous security violations since.

GABBY GIFFORDS' HUSBAND BUYS AR-15  —  Mark E. Kelly, gun-control proponent and husband to former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, recently purchased an AR-15 (an “assault weapon,” he called it)—which he now says he intended as an illustration of the need for more stringent gun laws.

Professor Krugman and Crude Keynesianism  —  I recently published a Washington Post op-ed called “Deficits do Matter” that was co-authored with talk-show host, commentator and former Congressman Joe Scarborough.  The piece argues that high and rising levels of public debt are a real concern.