Bipartisan consensus may seem particularly evanescent these days, but here’s something the 112th Congress, split or not, can address: Government Sponsored Entity reform. The news today from the Federal Housing Finance Agency that mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could end up needing as much as $363 billion in government help by 2013 is [...]
Per Ben Smith, here’s a new ad from a Tennessee Republican running for the House. Her dismay with cutting $500 out of Medicare “all to help pay for government control of medicine” encapsulates a contradictory message I haven’t heard so overtly since a man attending a town hall last year told a South Carolina congressman [...]
Considering what may be the toughest foreign policy quandary of Barack Obama’s presidency, Andrew Exum of the Center for a New American Security reminds us of a famous credo: “We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.” Exum continues: George Bush said that on 11 September [...]
Kevin Lamarque of Reuters snapped this photo of President Obama at a Seattle doughnut shop today. What went down (courtesy of the pool):
From Slate‘s Tom Scocca: I just wanted to reach out and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider the possibility that you might not really know, given the contradictions between your husband’s testimony and Anita Hill’s, which of the two of them was lying under oath back in 1991. Give it [...]
I missed this yesterday, but according to new campaign finance reports the Houston-based housing mogul Bob Perry, best known in politics for his support of the 2004 anti-John Kerry Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, has donated at least $11 million this year to independent Republican campaign groups operating under section 527 of the tax code. [...]
