Some of the day’s best reads:
- Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) supports filibuster reform.
- Steve Lombardo on the midterms: “It’s clear that an electoral wave has been building since last fall. The problem for Republicans is that at some point a wave must crest. And so the question that begs to be asked is this: are we seeing the crest of the wave now or is it still gaining strength and getting bigger?”
- Edmund L. Andrews on Paul Krugman and “fiscal scare tactics”: “Perhaps because he’s convinced this is a political battle, he resorts to gimmicky arguments to make a simplistic case that there really isn’t much of a deficit problem at all.”
- Mark Schmitt on progressives and Rahm Emanuel: “[T]here have always been conservative Democrats and vulnerable, cautious Democrats, and the bigger the Democratic majority, the more of them there will be. That’s political life, not Rahm Emanuel’s invention.”
- Econompic Data on the improved labor market.
