“Keep an eye on Ole’ Huck,” Joe writes. “He’s got skills. He’s funny, decent and will, on occasion, violate the lockstep rigors of his party.” All true. But here’s the hitch: There’s little evidence to date that Mike Huckabee has any plans to run for president. A few data points to consider: Huckabee is in [...]
As Adam notes below, the next newsstand issue of TIME, which can be delivered to your house at minimal cost, has a piece I did on Mitt Romney’s preparations for another campaign. Romney sees his next campaign, as one aide puts it, as smaller, more efficient and reactive. “Last time, Mitt’s campaign was like IBM. [...]
I remember it vividly. I was 14 years old and watched it on television (black and white, naturally). It was a freezing day, blindingly white snow–Robert Frost couldn’t read his poem because of the glare. There were puffs of vapor with every exhale, as John F. Kennedy gave me, and my generation, our marching orders. [...]
Quick recommendation for those interested in a (carefully vetted) behind-the-scenes peek at life in the White House: check out a Time.com gallery of photographer Pete Souza’s favorite snapshots from Obama’s first two years. The gentle portraiture may rankle our resident right-wingers, but there are some good shots.
Politico: Trying to project strength, House Republicans risk sowing only more confusion now with a resolution reaffirming the GOP’s campaign pledge to roll back domestic spending to the 2008 appropriations levels set in the last year of the Bush administration. The leadership candidly admits it wants only to manufacture a floor debate on spending cuts [...]
Gail Collins may have done the impossible this morning in the New York Times, summing up one senator’s illustrious career in a single sentence. If you’re continually admiring yourself as you walk away from your group, eventually people are going to feel an irresistible desire to trip you. Read her entire, and entirely biting, take [...]
As part of my never-ending campaign to expunge Nazi comparisons from our political discourse, allow me to scourge Rep. Steve Cohen for this tawdry piece of demagoguery. The Republicans are wrong on health care reform–they’re also hypocritical, since it’s their own health care plan that they’re attacking. But Goebbels? Chill, Cohen.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka gave a speech at D.C.’s National Press Club this morning — his own take on the state of the union, serving in part as a precursor to Obama’s upcoming speech. He was flanked by a cast of individuals to put a human face to his political points. A 9/11 first responder [...]
