Might Harry Reid go the way of Tom Daschle? “It’s the highest stakes ever for a Nevada election, and former boxer Sen. Harry Reid is on the ropes early. Either Republican Danny Tarkanian or Sue Lowden would knock out Reid in a general election, according to a recent poll of Nevada voters. . . . Nevadans favored Tarkanian over Reid 49 percent to 38 percent and Lowden over Reid 45 percent to 40 percent, according to the poll.”

You likely saw this one coming when the government gave out money to buy cars: “The Obama administration has declared the wildly popular ‘Cash for Clunkers’ program a success, saying it has revived the country’s ailing auto industry and taken polluting vehicles off the road. But the data shows that the program, which ends Monday, has apparently benefited foreign automakers more than their U.S. counterparts.” Darn consumers have minds of their own, it seems. But the real test will come in the fall, when we see if we really added to car purchases or just shifted the timing of those purchases from the traditional fall buying season to the summer.

Sens. Joe Lieberman and Richard Lugar say it’s time to start over with an incrementalist approach on health care.

Eleanor Cliff thinks Obama should start fighting for health care. I think he has been—and it’s not working, even with his own party.

Paul Greenberg on the Justice Department’s dismissal of the default judgment against the Black Panthers: “Why hasn’t there been a greater sense outrage, betrayal or just disgust at the administration’s handling of this case? My theory: Because none of this comes as a surprise. What else could be expected when The People in their wisdom elect a president of the United States who’s a product of Chicago’s machine politics?”

Mike Huckabee deserves kudos for giving Israeli officials the time and forum to explain the challenges of governing and living in Jerusalem. The substance of his remarks and tone of obvious affection for the Jewish state could not be more different than what is coming out of the Obama administration.

Bill Kristol on ObamaCare: “It is failing on the merits.” Juan Williams observes that the discussion is now among Democrats because Republicans are “not in the game.” Huh? If a majority of Democrats agreed with ObamaCare, they’d have passed it by now. But Williams does get to the nub of Tom Ridge’s allegation that threat levels were subject to political pressure: “He is trying to sell books.”

Not a headline that will thrill the White House: “Obama Vacations Where the Elites Meet.”

presidential vacation: “The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. These figures mark the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President.”

It is almost like there is no consensus to pass ObamaCare: “A public (or ‘government-run’) option in the healthcare bill before Congress is unlikely to survive conference between the House and Senate, a leader of the centrist Blue Dog coalition said this weekend. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-N.D.) said that while there is a good chance the preliminary House bill will contain the controversial provision, the final bill which will head to the White House probably won’t contain the option.”