Every day we ask influential politicos to send us their top three bullet points that are driving the day's conversation inside and outside Washington.

RedState.Com Editor Erick-Woods Erickson:

– Well, the President's press conference went over like a lead balloon with the media. Mark Halperin of Time called the President a . . . well a not nice word . . . on live TV. The Washington Post fact checker column says the President got a lot wrong. Then there are those class warfare calls to get rid of tax deductions for corporate jets. The President is the one who put them in his stimulus plan.

– Mitt Romney is trying to get Utah to move up its Republican Primary. Is that a sign of worry? Probably. With Michele Bachmann now competitive against him in Iowa and South Carolina, he needs some other early wins.

– Interesting how the Huffington Post and others in the media are treating Mark Halperin's remark on Barack Obama. The typical spin is that he made a "gaffe." Except, Halperin suggested before hand that they go on delay and smirked when he said it. Halperin knew what he was doing and saying.

Senior Editor of MarioWire.com Mario Solis-Marich:

– Bad Call: Obama finally takes off his gloves much to the dismay of beltway pundits who believe that only Republicans can act like male body appendages – note to punditry: do your homework.

– Wake up call: Rick Perry finds himself tied with a Democratic president among all voters in his own GOP state of Texas while his advisers scamper to deal with the new demographics of the Lone Star State, buenos dias senior Governor!

– Crank Call: GOP insiders are realizing that the worst case scenario can occur and Michele Bachmann can win their presidential nomination, what would founding father John Quincy Adams do?

Editor’s Note: The blog is a place for a freewheeling exchange of ideas and opinions. CNN does not endorse anything said by its contributors.

Every day we ask influential politicos to send us their top three bullet points that are driving the day's conversation inside and outside Washington.

RedState.Com Editor Erick-Woods Erickson:

– The President says he doesn't want to engage in scare tactics on the debt ceiling, but he says food inspections may suffer if we don't raise taxes and wants to know if we really want to pay the Chinese, not seniors if we don't raise the debt ceiling. No demagoguery there.

– Funny how the President would comment unequivocally about the constitutionality of DOMA, but not on Libya.

– The President was perfectly willing to lecture the Supreme Court, a separate branch of government, during a State of the Union speech, but he punted on taking a position on the NLRB's attack on Boeing, despite it being an agency within the executive branch.

Firedoglake.com Blogger/Founder Jane Hamsher:

– Mitch McConnell Speaks Up for the Rich

– Obama Capitulates to GOP and Withdraws Labor Protection from Colombia Trade Deal

– The Next Housing Shoe To Drop – Private Mortgage Insurance Going Belly Up

Editor’s Note: The blog is a place for a freewheeling exchange of ideas and opinions. CNN does not endorse anything said by its contributors.

Every day we ask influential politicos to send us their top three bullet points that are driving the day's conversation inside and outside Washington.

RedState.Com Editor Erick-Woods Erickson:

– The media is fixated on Michele Bachmann's launch and her alleged gaffes. In a review of the Politifact hit job, a number of her gaffes were her citing media reports.

– While focusing on Bachmann's statements, the media has largely ignored President Obama's gaffe, claiming to have given a medal of honor to a soldier in person, but the soldier had actually been killed.

– Tim Pawlenty has come out aggressively for an interventionist Republican foreign policy. Look for Romney and Huntsman to try to steal the spotlight since foreign policy is something Romney needs to work on and it is considered Huntsman's forte.

Senior Political Columnist for TheDailyBeast.com John Avlon:

– Bachmann's Launch: John Wayne Gacy and John Quincy Adams gaffes notwithstanding, Bachmann's Iowa announcement was another scripted success. But with her rise in the polls will come greater scrutiny of her past statements, policy beliefs and her legislative record – which are far-right, fringe and thin, respectively. She's raised a lot of activist cash by making incendiary statements, but that sort of serial incitement does not get rewarded with the White House. As for the idea that she can be a unifying political leader, touted in her announcement, is absurd because of the way that she has chosen to make her name to date. If she wins the Iowa caucus, which is entirely possible, the GOP might belatedly recognize that they have made a mistake by empowering the extremes in their party.

– Palin in Iowa: It's a movie premiere, not a presidential announcement. Sarah Palin continues to do everything she needs to build her brand but nothing to actually build a presidential campaign. And with Bachmann's rise – and their over-lapping political constituencies – it's unclear who she would take support from in this already crowded field.

– Pawlenty's Fade: The biggest news out of the Iowa poll wasn't that Romney and Bachmann were statistically tied – it was that Tim Pawlenty was at the bottom of the pack. With conservatives hoping for another candidate like Rick Perry to get in the race, Tim Pawlenty's long-shot campaign has decidedly failed to convert to date, compounded by his failure to stand strong in the first NH debate – and the second quarter fundraising totals are likely to reflect that fact.

Editor’s Note: The blog is a place for a freewheeling exchange of ideas and opinions. CNN does not endorse anything said by its contributors.