Politics: Afternoon Edition: Mitt Romney channels Ronald Reagan

If you have difficulty viewing this newsletter, click here to view as a Web page. Click here to view in plain text. Thursday, June 2, 2011 HEADLINES The Fix: Mitt Romney channels Ronald Reagan The former Massachusetts governor made a major rhetorical bow to the Gipper in his presidential announcement speech on Thursday. » Read full article White House counsel Bauer to resign White House Counsel Bob Bauer, a longtime adviser to President Obama, is leaving the administration to return to his private legal practice, the White House announced Thursday. » Read full article 2chambers: Boehner: Libya vote could come Friday House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) appeared to indicate that there will be a vote Friday on some kind of resolution related to the U.S. military campaign in Libya. » Read full article U.S. officials' Gmail accounts attacked Google's allegation that hackers based in China accessed hundreds of Gmail accounts, including some belonging to senior U.S. officials, drew angry denials from Chinese government officials on Thursday. » Read full article Right Turn: Have Republicans turned the corner on Mediscare? Republicans were taken aback and frankly, had not anticipated, the Mediscare barrage from the Democrats opposing the Medicare reform plan of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). » Read full article BEHIND THE GOVERNMENT SHOWDOWN Sign up for daily e-mail updates on the federal budget showdown QUOTE OF THE DAY Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in a speech announcing his candidacy for the 2012 presidential race: "The people have not created this disaster in our economy; the federal government has. It has overspent, overestimated, and over-regulated." COMMENT OF THE DAY Rudy7, on Cecilia Kang and Ellen Nakashima's "China rejects Google allegation of massive hacking breach as 'fabrication'" story: Political and corporate espionage is part of everyday life, done by countries, companies and individuals. Hacking is just an updated version of what has been going on for centuries. If America and the West had more people who knew how to speak and write Chinese, especially write, then China would be subject to the same hack attacks. Q&A DISCUSSIONS Democratic crisis-management specialist Chris Lehane was online at 1:30 p.m. ET to discuss how Weiner is trying to manage this situation, and whether or not he is handling it correctly: Q: I am stunned at how badly Rep. Weiner handled this. I would like to believe him, but his exchange with Dana Bash had me cringing. Does he not listen to anyone? This was crisis management 101. I am still not clear if he answered THE question. I must have missed that in the mess. Chris Lehane: Your insights are on the spot -- typically you want to get the answer right out of the box... you certainly don't want to keep digging a deeper hole. » View full Q&A session MULTIMEDIA Video: No more questions A day after multiple television news interviews, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) told reporters outside his Capitol Hill office he would not be taking any more questions regarding the lewd photo recently sent from his Twitter account. Get The Washington Post, your way. Want to stay on top of the latest news, features, commentary and more? Here's how: Mobile: Alerts: Social Media: Applications Web site E-mail SMS RSS Feeds Facebook Twitter SEND TO A FRIEND UNSUBSCRIBE E-NEWSLETTER CENTER GET HELP Washington Post Digital E-mail Customer Care 1150 15th Street NW Washington, D.C. 20071 ©2011 The Washington Post Privacy Policy