• Current TV’s David Shuster calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about the madness surrounding the Iowa Caucuses and the Payroll Tax Cut Extension
• Ari Berman of The Nation calls in at 11am ET / 8am PT to talk about the Iowa Caucuses and the payroll tax cut extension fight
• The GOP-controlled House voted yesterday to reject a Senate compromise that would have extended a federal payroll tax holiday for two months, continued unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and averted a cut in the reimbursement rate for doctors who treat Medicare patients. The House then went on vacation.
• Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona said Tuesday the battle on Capitol Hill between Democrats and Republicans over extending the payroll tax cut was causing damage to the GOP.
• A growing number of voters, 50% compared to 44% in March, trust Obama to solve the nation’s problems while the percentage of those with faith in congressional Republicans is slipping, according to a CNN/ORC International Poll.
• Newt Gingrich accused Mitt Romney Tuesday of running “negative smear campaigns,” and challenged the former Massachusetts governor to speak out publicly against Super PACs running negative ads.
