KVETCHING ABOUT BIBI: Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama were caught on a live mic grousing about Benjamin Netanyahu, with the French president calling the Israeli prime minister "a liar” and the American president reportedly commiserating: “I have to deal with him every day!”
RANCOROUS RELATIONS: The Republican Jewish Coalition’s Matthew Brooks writes that the Sarkozy-Obama microphone incident is indicative of the “continuous rancor” between the Obama administration and Netanyahu’s government.
GETTING TOUGH WITH IRAN: The Republican presidential field is talking tough on Iran, and Bloomberg Vie columnist Jeffrey Goldberg suggests that President Obama may take military action to prevent Iran from going nuclear.
CHAI FOR POLLARD: Eighteen former senators have sent an appeal to President Obama to release convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
WHAT WOULD BLOOMBERG DO?: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has some ideas on how the federal budget deficit should be addressed.
SCHUMER BEARISH ON SUPERCOMMITTEE: Sen. Charles Schumer thinks that budget-cutting congressional super-committee is going to fail.
SORRY FOR THE SLUR: The head of the Texas state House of Representatives GOP caucus says he’s sorry for using the phrase “Jew them down.”
DEFENDING LARRY SUMMERS: The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein suggests that former White House chief economic adviser Larry Summers may have gotten a bad rap.
GLORIA ALLRED’S FIGHTS: The ABC News website has a mini-profile of celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, a media-savvy fighter for women, who yesterday stood beside Herman Cain’s latest accuser in a televised press conference.
