Opening Act: Srinivasan  Reporting on Politics and Policy. April
12 2013 8:53 AM  Opening Act: Srinivasan  The interior of the
U.S. Supreme Court in 2003.  Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images
The text of the Manchin-Toomey gun compromise, the stuff that'll
form the basis of the final bill (via amendment), is released:
Here.  David Weigel David Weigel  David Weigel is a reporter for
Bloomberg Politics  Jeffrey Toobin introduces the next Supreme
Court justice ... if he can ever get confirmed.  CREW tries
manfully to find a scandal in the McConnell/Progress Kentucky
eavesdropping tape.   It's really not unheard of for staffers to
do campaign work on their own time—during the long recesses, for
example—in the time before a campaign has really staffed up.
Dylan Matthews explains why it's so hard to compare the various
political budgets released every year:  [S]eemingly simple
questions about the budget, like “Does Obama or Ryan cut the
Medicare budget more over 10 years?” are rather hard to answer
honestly. And that