Governor Mitch Daniels, the man who proposed a “truce” on social issues, will sign a bill restricting abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and making Indiana the first state to choke off government funding to Planned Parenthood clinics. The AP reports:
Jon Huntsman, it seems, knows how to make an entrance. He has timed his resignation as U.S. ambassador to China to coincide with the biggest social event on Washington D.C.’s political-media-entertainment calender, Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. For the first time since August of 2009, he will be freed from Hatch Act rules that [...]
Gandel checks Boehner’s claim: Indeed, the recent rise of gas prices seems to be slowing the economy. So raising taxes on oil companies does seem to be a bad move if it will result in higher gas prices. But is that what would really happen? Probably not.
–Former Democratic Senator Russ Feingold, reacting to the news that former White House staffers have formed an independent expenditure group that can take unlimited, undisclosed corporate donations.
The Obamas ended up attending Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington’s Shaw neighborhood (and three blocks from my house–thanks for the wake-up via low-flying security helicopters, Mr. President) for Easter services on Sunday. Obama himself has said that the First Family doesn’t plan on joining a Washington-area church, so this was just a one-off visit for [...]
This is a tale of two Barack Obamas. The first Barack Obama appears in December of 2007. It’s just a few days until the Iowa caucuses, and a shadowy third-party group with ties to John Edwards is about to start running ads, which outrages Obama. He knows that law prevents Edwards from directly coordinating with [...]
One poll on health care policy can’t tell you much, but the Kaiser Family Foundation’s April tracking survey, conducted in wake of Paul Ryan’s proposal to remake federal entitlement programs and amid a stir of town halls unease, is pretty instructive. In this case, the usual caveats that accompany such data — question wording matters, [...]
The most important marriage of the week was in Palestine, not London. True, the odds of a lasting relationship between the internationally recognized leaders of the Palestinians, Fatah, and the internationally designated terrorist group, Hamas, aren’t great—it’s not clear whether the union will actually be consummated. But even a short fling has the potential to [...]
–Mary Anne Carter, a top aide to Florida Gov. Rick Scott, explaining how she keeps political communication out of official government records.
