Summary after the Break

Today:

President Barack Obama presented his budget proposal for the 2013 fiscal year. It seems to be much more a declaration of political intents rather than a document on the country’s management: The White House knows that it has zero chance of seeing its proposal approved by the House of Representatives, which is controlled by the Republican Party. Still, the direction that Obama intends to give his campaign is clear (and also, presumably, to his second term, if he’s re-elected).

President Barack Obama’s campaign launched a new initiative that has the objective of demystifying the lies and false allegations of his political adversaries. Obama’s candidacy wants to enlist at least two million supporters to act as a “Truth Team.”

Over the weekend:

The ex-governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, won the caucus in Maine (one that doesn’t distribute delegates) and the CPAC “straw poll” — a kind of popularity contest among the participants of the annual conservative conference in Washington. But his candidacy did not break the chains forged by his demons from the previous week.

More interesting issues arose at the conservative meeting: Newt Gingrich continues his crusade against the Republican establishment, and Sarah Palin only sees advantages in prolonging the Republican race to find the best candidate.

Rick Santorum, ex-senator of Pennsylvania, does not believe that conservatives prefer Romney. The weekend polls did not discredit his campaign, which is livened up by the surveys that show his lead in Michigan.