Our colleague Tim Padgett reports on the red ink battle raging in sunny Florida: …last week Scott — speaking not from the state capital, Tallahassee, but from the Tea Party hotbed of Eustis, Fla., to show his disdain for all things public sector — delivered a budget proposal that slashes $4.6 billion (7% of current [...]
Some people are having a debate about whether social media are playing an important role in political unrest in the Middle East. Two of the people involved in the debate share the goal of being important public thinkers, so the issue is getting more attention than it should. But if you’re still reading, here’s the [...]
Five-term congressman from Arizona’s 6th district Jeff Flake has announced his bid for the Senate seat that will be vacated by retiring fellow Republican Jon Kyl next year. As the former head of the Goldwater Institute, Flake has iron-clad fiscal conservative credentials and is already being cheered on by the Club For Growth. But his [...]
On the heels of a high-profile speech at CPAC, an appearance on Fox News Sunday and with the press beginning to dig into his lobbying days, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is taking the natural next step: In another sign that he’s moving toward a presidential bid, Haley Barbour will visit Iowa next month, POLITICO has [...]
An interesting weekend in Washington. Two conventions claiming 11,000 attendees each. One, the CPAC convention was heavily reported in the press–including by me, below; the other was the annual Teach For America alumni conference, where I moderated a panel after I’d spent three days listening to the Republican presidential candidates at CPAC. Both crowds were [...]
For the second year in a row, Texas congressman Ron Paul won the Conservsative Political Action Conference’s presidential straw poll with about 30% of the vote while Mitt Romney again took second. No one else cracked double digits. The results are as much a measure of who’s made an organized effort to win it as [...]
Daniels’ national political presence has come to be defined by something he said to the Weekly Standard last June: Debt and deficits pose such a national danger, he argued, that everything else should take a backseat. ”[The next president] would have to call a truce on the so-called social issues,” he told Andrew Ferguson. “We’re [...]
