The Weird Week Ahead

++The Nationals lost their first Spring training game as Stephen Strasburg gave up a homer. This should set the stage for another wacky week in the Beltway.

++John "Sunday" McCain said today that Chuck Hagel wasn't qualified to be Secretary of Defense. Friday saw 15 Republican Senators request Obama withdraw the nomination. The White House said Stick it in your ear. His vote should come up Tuesday and as of today he has enough votes.

++John McCain will be meeting with President Obama tomorrow on immigration reform. I expect that privately they will agree on the basic measures but will do a dance in public before the details get into legislation. 

++The bipartisan group of Senators have all but agreed to increased background checks for gun owners. The Gun Supporters of America (GSA) announced on radio that President Obama has a secret plan to exterminate all whites by gun control measures.

++Bishop Willard and his lovely wife Ann are back in town for the CPAC convention. Young Wallace will be interviewing the couple this afternoon on FOX.

++House Democrats are going to introduce a bill this week end to arm the Syrian opposition ,especially now that "moderates" have gained the upper hand in attacks on Aleppo and Damascus.

++North Korea has promised big destruction if the US carries out its annual military maneuver in South Korea. Can we have a reality show where you vote off a nation from Planet Earth? They are getting tedious.

++Sequestration really, truly, looks like it is going through. The question will be whether it really does have the the devastating effects everyone projects. Oh and by the way it probably will not affect the debt at all.

++Bob Woodward is blaming President Obama and Richard Lew for the sequestration, even though in his prior book he made it clear that Obama only agreed to it when the GOP wanted to pull another stunt with the debt ceiling. 

++Have we had enough of self-created apocalypses? When is the next one? The Budget crisis?

++Wayne La Pierre has revved up the NRA's ads again accusing Obama of being an elitist and caring more about his children than ours. 

++Right now the polls have Paul Ryan as the "most moderate" Republican who has ambitions in 2016. Marco Rubio, fresh from his trip to Israel, and Rand Paul manage to outpoll Ryan on the Right.

++The Pope did or did not resign because of a.) a letter from a European Government charging him with crimes against humanity because of the sexual abuse of children the Church has covered up for decades; or b.) gay priests in the Vatican were being blackmailed by male prostitutes in Rome? Or Both?

++In an unrelated matter, President Obama filed a brief with the Supreme Court urging that DOMA be ruled unconstitutional. The brief was pithy and destroyed the Act but reason doesn't always triumph. Ted Olson's brief on Prop 8 was his usual excellent dismantling of that Act. It would be historic if the Supreme Court actually ruled to uphold gay and lesbian rights.

++Because there is no more racism in this country, the Supreme Court looks like it will over-rule Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. President Obama has been meeting with minority groups this past week,trying to convince them their votes will not be taken away. Want to bet.

++The Supreme Court looks like it will double down on Citizens United by eliminating all campaign restrictions on individuals. Axelrod says this might not be a bad thing in the long run.

++A Republican in Montana has introduced a bill allowing corporations to actually vote in local elections if they have a presence in that jurisdiction. Does that mean companies can vote in more than one local election if they have different branches across the state?

++Since the Supreme Court rulings will go against most Americans, I predict DOMA will be overturned--since two Reagan-appointed judges already have--and Ted Olson will win on Prop 8 but in a narrow decision based on California only and not for the nation as a whole.