This week, on The Program Formerly Known as TWiB: Why Matt is dreading going to the Conservative Political Action Conference. How will the CPAC crowd respond to the presidential candidates? Will Romney run right or run center in the general? And Bill and Matt try to figure out why Ann Coulter, Matt Drudge, and Jennifer Rubin all seem to be in the tank for Romney.
On Foreign Entanglements, Rob and Heather talk about the tightening of sanctions on Iran, including the domestic repercussions in both countries. They also discuss the situation in Syria: Rob has doubts about airpower, and Heather and Rob work through some of the problems with the Responsibility to Protect. Plus, a mini-review of “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.”
On this week’s episode of Pros and Conn, Talk Left’s Big Tent Democrat (aka Armando Llorens) talks about Romney’s win in Florida, how Cubans think about immigration, why Romney doesn’t care about poor people, and the power of Erick Erickson and Markos Moulitsas.
Adam and Dan assess whether the Florida effectively ended the GOP race, and whether immigration reform is effectively DOA. Should we, unlike Mitt Romney, worry about the very poor? Dan calls b.s. on both Occupy Wall Street and Romney. Plus: hip-hop as the purest expression of American capitalism.