President Obama’s 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina sent a YouTube message to supporters Monday laying out the strategy for winning in 2012. Notice anything? Here are four things that stood out to me:
Republicans still better at chicken: Speaker Boehner says he’s prepared not to hold a debt limit vote if he’s not getting his way. A USA Today/Gallup poll holds some pretty good numbers for Republicans on the budget: 48% support reducing deficits with mostly spending cuts; 37% support a mix of cuts and tax hikes; 11% [...]
The financial picture is still grim in state capitals across the country. In California, for example, the once-again Gov. Jerry Brown has bailed $11 billion of red ink out of the budget, leaving him with $15 billion to go. A new poll of Golden State voters suggests that the drumbeat of fiscal calamity is starting [...]
It’s been a tough stretch for Republican Congressman Sean Duffy. A month ago, the prized recruit was embroiled in controversy after telling a town hall crowd back in Wisconsin’s Seventh District that he was “struggling” to pay his bills on his $174,000 representative’s salary. (Median household income in WI-7: $39,000.) Upon returning home for Congress’s [...]
Last week, President Obama dashed out West to court donors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Surely, he couldn’t help but notice the throng of protesters outside the $2,500-a-plate dinner at Sony Pictures’ Culver City, Calif., studios carrying signs that read, “Stop Deporting Dreams.”
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour didn’t have an epiphany or see a burning bush as he anguished over the past week before deciding not to run for President. “He’d love to run,” one close adviser says. “But he decided that alone is not enough of a reason.
It’s official. Haley Barbour, after months of serious exploration, including the hiring of staff and winning endorsements, has announced he won’t compete in the 2012 presidential race. That sound you hear is an exhale of disappointment from the dozens of investigative reporters across the Northeast corridor who had been itching to do stories on the [...]
In the annals of political reportage, I thought perhaps we’d hit bottom last week with this: a fake journalist interviewing a fake presidential candidate about a campaign that will never exist. Meghan McCain and Trump banter about important topics like what Meghan’s mom thinks of the Donald, whether the real-estate tycoon would hire the writer [...]
Fact: Almost every Republican in Congress is against voting to raise the debt ceiling unless coupled with massive cuts. Fact: Almost every Republican in Congress thinks the debt ceiling will be raised, even if it doesn’t come with the massive cuts they’re seeking.
An Iranian military official is claiming that Iran has been hit with another computer virus. Information is limited and outsiders are skeptical. Reports the AP:
