White House adviser: Can Romney make tough calls? (AP)

WASHINGTON – A White House adviser say Mitt Romney has "moved all over the place" on issues from abortion to gay marriage over his career and might not have firm enough convictions to make the tough decisions as president.

David Plouffe (pluhf) jokes that if Romney thought "it was good to say the sky was green and the grass was blue to win an election, he'd say it."

Plouffe, who was Barack Obama's 2008 campaign manager, notes a new Iowa poll showing Herman Cain leading with 23 percent support, and Romney next at 22 percent.

Plouffe tells NBC's "Meet the Press" that Cain "seems to have tapped into something." Plouffe says lots of voters still are "looking somewhere else" beyond Romney and he wonders whether the early front-runner can turn that around.

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Republican senators step up calls on Obama to produce Medicare plan (Daily Caller)

Republicans on Capitol Hill are planning to stick it to President Obama for not following a law that requires the president to produce a proposal that addresses Medicare’s financial instability.

Senator John Cornyn of Texas will be sending a letter to President Obama Wednesday afternoon, signed by at least a majority of Senate Republicans, that will call on the president to immediately submit a proposal to Congress that addresses Medicare funding.

The letter will note that by not presenting a proposal, the Obama administration will be in violation of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernizations Act of 2003.

At the time of this publication, the letter had 35 Republican signatures, though more were expected to follow.

According to the letter, a proposal “would help prevent the bankruptcy of this vital program for Americas seniors and keep the federal government from going further into debt.”

The letter also notes that in 2008 the Bush administration complied with the law and submitted a legislative proposal to Congress though it was never acted on.

“Your Administration, however, has failed to submit such a proposal for the last three years,” the letter will say. “This not only defies federal law but also abdicates your Administration’s responsibility to lead.”

The law in question says that once a certain threshold is reached in the percentage of Medicare funding that comes from the general revenue fund (45 percent), the president is required to submit a plan to Congress that addresses the program’s instability within 15 days of submitting a budget proposal. The provision is known as the “Medicare Trigger”.

That trigger has been reached the last six years.

Cornyn’s letter stresses the legal requirement on the president, but also points out that the largest claim on the federal budget over the next 75 years is Medicare, which is predicted to cost a total of $35 trillion.

On Tuesday, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin submitted a similar letter to the president.

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Wis. GOP Sen. Johnson calls on Weiner to resign (AP)

MILWAUKEE – Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin has become the first Republican senator to call on U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (WEE'-ner) to resign.

Johnson told ABC's "Topline" on Thursday that he wished Weiner would resign "to get that story off the front page." He says the controversy distracts from pressing economic issues.

Weiner has repeatedly said he won't step down. The New York Democrat faces pressure from both parties after he admitted tweeting sexually charged messages and photos to at least six women and lying about it.

In a recent poll of registered voters in Weiner's district, 56 percent said he should stay in office while 33 percent said he should go.

A spokeswoman for Wisconsin's other senator, Democrat Herb Kohl, said he was traveling Friday and not immediately available for comment.

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