This week’s agenda: Obama’s bus tour, super committee, Perry’s bid
President Obama is departing today for his three-day bus tour through the Midwest, where he will stop in Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. With his poll numbers slipping, Obama will be talking with Americans about ways to improve the economy and job growth. While Obama is on the road, Texas Governor Rick Perry, who announced this weekend that he will seek the 2012 Republican nomination, will begin fundraising for his campaign. As the race to for the presidency kicks up a notch, a Congressional twelve-member ‘super committee’ will begin work on a debt-reduction strategy, aiming to come up with a plan to reduce the deficit by $1.5 trillion by Thanksgiving of this year. We’ll talk about these items and other upcoming news for the week with Kai Wright, editorial director of ColorLines, and Kelly Evans, who contributes to the “Ahead of the Tape” column for The Wall Street Journal.
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