The former Senator and aspiring presidential candidate shared his thoughts recently in New Hampshire: The former Pennsylvania senator and potential presidential candidate was asked about Social Security during an interview on WESZ-AM radio in Laconia on Tuesday morning. He said the system’s design is flawed, but the reason it is in big trouble is that [...]
It is always an education to watch our American writhings from overseas. It is particularly excrutiating watching the Republican Party presidential candidates who, on a daily basis, pronounce some ignorant racist or irreligious twaddle…which–amazingly enough–manages to be heard around the world. As Crowley notes below, today’s example primo is Newt, who really needs to get [...]
Speaking before the flock of evangelical pastor John Hagee, the master of political hyperbole has outdone himself this time: Newt Gingrich stood before thousands of evangelical churchgoers Sunday night to deliver a dire warning that nation’s Christian roots are under attack. “I have two grandchildren — Maggie is 11, Robert is 9,” Gingrich said at [...]
Jerusalem Michael Crowley is appropriately skeptical about Barack Obama’s speech last night. I understand, and respect, the principles that the President laid out, but in a world of troubles–and with really limited resources (a concept apparently foreign to most Americans, for whom “exceptionalism” includes boundless amounts of money…and boundless amounts of readiness from an overstretched [...]
President Obama speaks about the conflict in Libya at the National Defense University in Washington on March 28. (REUTERS/Larry Downing) –Obama addressed a skeptical public last night. –If U.S. forces are implicitly aligned with Libyan rebels, President Obama didn’t say as much. –Bill Kristol loved the speech. John McCain didn’t like that Obama ruled out [...]
Barack Obama’s speech on Libya on Monday night was a curious beast — both ambitious and cautious at once. The President surprised Washington by articulating a big idea about U.S. power. But he may have disappointed Americans by dancing around the challenge that remains in Libya. Obama was clear enough, to be sure, about why [...]
I’ll have a longer analysis of Barack Obama’s speech about Libya later tonight. But my thumbnail take is that Obama delivered a thoughtful speech, one in the tradition of the Washington foreign policy establishment, which managed to offer both an unexpectedly ambitious vision for America’s global role–but also a frustrating lack of clarity on the [...]
TPM’s Brian Beutler reports that House Republicans are prepared to reject a White House offer to cut more than $30 billion from the federal budget over the remainder of the 2011 fiscal year. The sticking point, Beutler writes, is a dispute over whether some of the money should come from mandatory spending programs: Democrats are [...]
Jerusalem I’ve just spent an intense two days of reporting on both sides of the green line, on the West Bank and in Israel, and I’ll be writing for the print magazine, and posting here, about all I’ve learned, starting tomorrow. But I just can’t resist the following: Acting in silent, but unspoken, mainstream-media conspiracy [...]
