Jeb Bush Wins Landslide for GOP Nomination

++The twitter feeds are unanimous. After Bill Kristol bet everyone on Morning Joe that Bush would not be the GOP nominee,everyone knew that Jeb had won--given Kristol's amazing record of getting everything wrong. The Daily Beast has an article how Jeb is unacceptable to the Tea Party. But remember this,the GOP has not won a national election since the end of WWII or for that matter mid-way into the Korean War without a Nixon or Bush on the ticket.

++Chris Christie really is toast as Politico notes. The Bridgegate scandal has morphed into a full scale corruption investigation by the Federal Attorney for the Southern District and the work of the grand jury has proliferated.

++One of Bill Kristol's favorites, Gov. Scott Walker has said he wants to get his college degree. 

++The GOP claims they will unveil their alternative to Obamacare in their town hall meetings before Easter.Despite Democratic pundits, the GOP is going to run a full-throated campaign against Obamacare,despite its success. Even Ross Douhout of the Times claims this fight will last a generation.

++The Rand Corporation released a report that says Obamacare has aided 9.3 million people who were previously uninsured.

++The Senate really did pass the extended unemployment bill 59-38. Even though such a bill would actually add 250,000 jobs,John Boehner says it doesn't meet his criteria for creating jobs so forget about it coming on the floor of the House.

++John Boehner again said that the House will not vote for immigration reform because the members don't trust President Obama with implementing it properly. This is part of Obama as lawless theme. 

++Job openings have now hit 4.17 million.

++Eric Holder calls for the release of the Senate's Torture Report so that the American public could see what was done in their name and so another administration would not be tempted to resort to torture again. Dianne Feinstein called torture "a stain on our history". But Donald Rumsfeld said that all the torture memos came from the Department of Justice and were approved by the Attorney General so that's OK. 

++President Obama is on the road selling his more populist economic message of raising the minimum wage and providing equal pay for women. He signed an executive order on equal pay standards for federal contractors.