Here is Tim Pawlenty’s “response” to President Obama’s campaign announcement. It’s a crafty play on President Obama’s slogan, “Win the Future.” Asks Pawlenty, with super macho voice manipulation, “I’ve got a question for you. How can America win the future when we are losing the present?” As he says these words, we get a strobe [...]
President Obama arrives to deliver remarks at a UPS shipping facility in Landover, Maryland on April 1. (REUTERS/Jim Young) –Obama formally announces his reelection bid with a video and new website. A classic end-of-first-term line from the video: “I don’t agree with Obama on everything, but I respect him him and I trust him.” That [...]
Updated The stopgap measure currently funding the federal government runs out at midnight on Friday and new rules in Congress stipulate that legislation needs to be posted publicly at least 72 hours before a vote, meaning the deadline for a 2011 budget deal falls on Wednesday. Democrats claim both sides have agreed to a number– [...]
Cairo Jeez, I certainly hope not. But David Sanger’s reporting today tells us that at least some in the White House saw it that way: The mullahs in Tehran, noted Thomas E. Donilon, the national security adviser, were watching Mr. Obama’s every move in the Arab world. They would interpret a failure to back up [...]
Cairo I’ve now heard from several sources that Israeli and Egyptian diplomats met for the first time since the revolution in Cairo last week–and the Israelis got an earful. “We’re not interested in a peace process,” the Egyptians told them. “We’re interested in a peace settlement.” This is understandable: the new Egyptian government isn’t going [...]
The first thing that you need to know about the massacre of 12 people that took place in Afghanistan today is that Mazar-e-Sharif is not a particularly radical town. It is not Pashtun, it is not Taliban. It is so quiet that NATO dispatched the near-pacifist Germans to keep the peace there. And so today’s [...]
Swampland’s Friday caption contest, this week featuring House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
“If you shut the government down, it’ll end up costing more than you’ll save because you interrupt contracts – there are a lot of problems with the idea of shutting the government down – it is not the goal,” Boehner said Friday outside his office suite in the Capitol. He says there’s no deal yet, [...]
Mitt Romney has one of the best Rolodex’s of rich people in Republican politics. Michele Bachmann says stuff that makes people love her or hate her. In our modern age, which one of the two prospective presidential contenders do you think raised more money in the first quarter of 2011? Bachmann, of course. She pulled [...]
