News You May Need:

WP: Is Israel Preparing To Attack Iran? This from David Ignatius is by far the most important story of the week. 

WSJ: Komen drops plan to cancel its grant to Planned Parenthood. 

NYT: SEC isn't exactly punishing the largest U.S. banks. 

The Day's Reads:

Ronald Brownstein: Obama's electoral map just got harder to draw.  

Nate Silver: On the relationship of job-growth and presidential electoral politics

Jonah Goldberg: Romney will owe conservatives

Martin Wolf: End this masochistic economic policymaking

 

This Day In Politics

On February 3rd 1988, The U.S. House of Representatives rejected President Ronald Reagan's request for at least $36.25 million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contras.


Tweet Of The Day:

From Business Insider's own Joe Weisenthal on the impressive jobs report. 

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What's Next

The Nevada caucuses are tomorrow. Watch for how well Ron Paul does. And then watch a discussion as to whether Romney, the turnaround artist, can run a successful campaign against a president leading an economy that is turning around already. 

 

Take care, 

Michael 

Michael Brendan Dougherty 
Politics Editor