UPDATED The House repeal of the Affordable Care Act, which passed Wednesday evening 245-189, isn’t the first time the landmark legislation has had the appearance of vulnerability. In fact, exactly one year before the repeal vote, Republican Scott Brown was elected to the U.S. Senate, filling the late Ted Kennedy’s seat and obliterating the Democratic [...]
The higher powers here at TIME have assigned me, a political reporter who covers the White House, the task of reviewing O, the new novel by an anonymous someone who claims to have once been in a room with Barack Obama. This fact alone may already tell you all you need to know about the [...]
Pretty impressive crowd at tonight’s state dinner, per the White House. It’s not every day you get Yo Yo Ma, Lloyd Blankfein, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Anna Wintour, Maya Lin and Henry Kissinger in the same room with (arguably) the world’s two most important leaders. Also, Barbra Streisand! THE PRESIDENT and MRS. OBAMA HIS EXCELLENCY [...]
It is no longer a “job-killing” health-care law, at least to the House Republican leaders spearheading tonight’s effort to pass HR 2, the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. In deference to the shootings in Tucson, the GOP nomenclature of preference appears now to be “job-destroying.” Other than that, it’s been Groundhog Day on the [...]
Jumping off of my colleagues’ Palin posts yesterday, I think there’s one major reason why Palin would have a tough go of it if she ran in the 2012 GOP primaries. (And that’s a BIG if. I don’t think she’ll do it. Palin’s playing coy for now because media interest in her would drop dramatically [...]
At a moment when several Senators facing grim re-election prospects are throwing in the towel, I was starting to wonder whether Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana might join their ranks. Lugar, whose seat is up next fall, is a personal favorite of Democrats, especially on the foreign policy and national security issues around which [...]
A new poll has Mike Huckabee leading the Republican field in Texas. Such polls are ridiculous to point of irrelevance at this stage of a presidential campaign…but keep an eye on Ole’ Huck. He’s got skills. He’s funny, decent and will, on occasion, violate the lockstep rigors of his party. He probably has the best [...]
“The reason I have decided not to run for re-election in 2012 is best expressed in the wise words from Ecclesiastes,” Joe Lieberman told the gathered crowd Wednesday afternoon in a hotel ballroom in Stamford, Connecticut. “‘To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under Heaven.’” For many Democrats, Lieberman’s retirement [...]
A friend forwards over this unlikely (or maybe not?) invite:
