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1.) Gary Johnson 2012: Seriously — Gary Johnson is running for president. Of the United States. No, I’m not kidding. But as any presidential candidate should do, he sat down with The Daily Caller for about an hour and a half earlier this week. And oh does he say some interesting things. TheDC’s Jamie Weinstein (ME!) and Alex Pappas report:
“Asked if he has a libertarian view on consenting adults having more than one spouse, Johnson made clear he didn’t want to discuss the topic, replying that ‘if you talk about those kinds of issues’ you will be ‘labeled as kooky.’ ‘And I would hate to have come out of this meeting that Johnson supports polygamy,’ he said. ‘I would hate to have that happen.'”
You think that’s awesome, wait until next week when we write about Johnson’s foreign policy.
2.) The Cheneys and the Obamas will not be spending Easter together — Liz Cheney ripped President Obama in an interview with The Daily Caller. TheDC’s Nicholas Ballasy reports:
“Liz Cheney, an attorney who studied at the University of Chicago when President Barack Obama taught there, told The Daily Caller that Obama is trying to ‘bully’ the Supreme Court with ‘crazy’ and ‘shameful’ rhetoric. ‘I thought his comments in the Rose Garden about the Supreme Court were stunning,’ Cheney told The Daily Caller. ‘President Obama was actually teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago when I was a law student there and thankfully for him and me, I wasn’t in his class, but the notion that the Supreme Court does not have the right to review laws passed by the legislature is crazy, and he knows that’s not true.'”
If you don’t sense particularly good blood between the Obamas and the Cheneys, it is because you’re perceptive.
3.) The IRS code sucks, says IRS commissioner — Even the head of the most hated institution in America, the Internal Revenue Service, thinks the tax code has much to be desired. TheDC’s Michelle Fields reports:
“The commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Douglas Shulman, said Thursday in Washington, D.C. that the tax code should ‘absolutely’ be simplified. ‘But in the meantime, we have a tax code that’s very complex. We’re hitting a critical mass of, just, sentiment around the country that something needs to be done about the tax code. Should the tax code be simplified? The answer is absolutely yes.'”
4.) Ken Cuccinelli provides a ringing endorsement of Romney. Psych. — The Virginia attorney general recognizes that Romney is likely to be the GOP nominee, but he doesn’t sound all that enthused about it. TheDC’s Will Rahn reports:
“Asked by The Daily Caller how, in a nation of a roughly 310 million people, the Republican Party is set to nominate the only person other than President Barack Obama to sign an individual health insurance mandate into law, Cuccinelli said he was ‘not quite sure how to answer.’ ‘He just outlasted everybody else up to this point,’ Cuccinelli, one of the GOP’s most outspoken critics of the individual mandate, said. ‘[Rick] Santorum’s not out yet, but the math is looking pretty ugly for him.'”
That’s what you call the complete, total and utter opposite of a ringing endorsement.
5.) Poll of the Day: Romney with big NY lead — Quinnipiac University poll of New York GOP presidential primary: Mitt Romney 54%, Rick Santorum 21%, Newt Gingrich 9%, Ron Paul 8%. The primary takes place April 24.
6.) Tweet of Yesterday — Roger Stone: Has Karl Rove every done a sit up?