Rumor has it Newt Gingrich is on the cusp of announcing an exploratory bid for the presidency. His long time political adviser, Joe Gaylord, told the Des Moines Register on Tuesday that the former Republican Speaker will make the big announcement during a trip to his native Georgia on Thursday. But late Tuesday, Gingrich’s spokesman [...]
The new era of Fox Republicans–politicians who have gigs as Fox News contributors while also maybe, sorta exploring presidential runs–is already causing problems for both the network and the “candidates.” Earlier today, the network’s political anchor Bret Baier came on air to announce that Fox is suspending its contracts for Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. [...]
As Jay Newton-Small and Amy Sullivan reported yesterday, Mike Huckabee made a toxic fool of himself on the subject of Barack Obama’s upbringing and heritage: “If you think about it, his perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather, their view of the Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya is very different [...]
Anti-government soldiers in the eastern city of Benghaz prepare to march on the Libyan capital, Tripoli. (Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR for TIME) –Dispatches from Libya in revolt. Western military intervention remains unlikely. –The Supreme Court rules corporations don’t have a right personal privacy. They still have free speech. –Adam Smith, the dean of Florida political [...]
A Government Accountability Office report released Tuesday outlined scores of fractured and redundant programs split between federal agencies from the Small Business Administration to the Department of Defense, and identified a patchwork of potential savings and revenue opportunities in the deficit-racked government. According to the GAO, 20 separate agencies currently run 56 different financial literacy [...]
In his defense, Huckabee did go out of his way in that radio interview to repeat his belief that Obama was born in the United States. Not so much because he believes Obama, mind you, but because “I know the Clintons…and believe me, they have lots of investigators out on him, and I’m convinced if [...]
The long national nightmare is over. Now firmly in control of one house of Congress, Republicans have scrapped former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “Green the Capitol” initiative, which included composting through the use of biodegradable drinking straws and utensils in House cafeterias. “The melting forks are finally gone,” Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck told Politico via email. [...]
UPDATED with House vote Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters Tuesday that he will accept House Republicans’ two-week extension of government funding that comes with $4 billion in cuts. The House this afternoon passed the bill 335-91 with overwhelming bipartisan support. Reid says he will push that measure through the Senate “in the next [...]
