According to First Read, President Clinton gave a speech in Texas yesterday and said that Senator Clinton’s political fate “should be decided in Texas.”  Clinton also predicted that wins here and in Ohio would lead to a “handsome victory” in Pennsylvania in April. “Then I think she will become the favorite again and go on and win this thing.”

Which makes this op-ed by Robert Novak in today’s Washington Post particularly interesting.  Writing under the headline “Who Will Tell Hillary?” Novak observes, “The Democratic dilemma recalls the Republican problem, in a much different context, 34 years ago, when GOP graybeards asked: “Who will bell the cat?” — or, go to Richard Nixon and inform him that he had lost his support in the party and must resign the presidency. Sen. Barry Goldwater successfully performed that mission in 1974, but there is no Goldwater facsimile in today’s Democratic Party (except for Sen. Ted Kennedy, who could not do it because he has endorsed Obama).”

John Judis has a lengthy profile of Barack Obama in the recent issue of The New Republic.

Stuart Rothenberg takes the gloves off and writes about the contradictions between Obama’s message and his record.   “Maybe if Obama wraps up the Democratic nomination in the next few weeks, he’ll give all of us a better idea of what he’d really like to do as president. We can only hope so. Another eight months of soaring but empty rhetoric about bringing people together and bringing about change will leave most of America brain-dead.”