As people marvel at how quickly Newt Gingrich’s fellow Republican piled on him this week, it’s worth remembering how glad they were to see him leave Congress more than a decade ago. (Salon‘s Steve Kornacki is good on this.) Best remembered is the way Gingrich was pushed from his speakership after House Republicans lost seats [...]
Since returning from China, Jon Huntsman hasn’t done much beyond giving a commencement address, one interview and announcing that his campaign headquarters, should he run, would be based in Orlando, Florida. But he starts his foray into retail politics Thursday, kicking off a five-day tour of New Hampshire, which will include the typical visits to [...]
Obama’s Mideast address will not be a sequel to the 2009 Cairo speech. Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigns as head of the IMF. From the magazine: David Plouffe tries to harness social media, the Iowa caucuses are a scam and Tim Pawlenty’s nice-guy candidacy.
In his much-hyped speech on the Middle East scheduled for Thursday, President Barack Obama will argue that the region’s anti-autocratic uprisings and the death of Osama bin Laden have laid a foundation for democratic and economic change. But the most urgent issue of the day will be unaddressed: how Obama, or anyone else for that [...]
The right’s reception of Mitt Romney’s health care speech in Ann Arbor last week was pretty icy.
A day before Obama’s address on the Middle East, the White House made two important gestures Wednesday in the ongoing Arab Spring saga. As with much of U.S. policy in the region of late, its not clear how much effect either will have.
“I made a mistake,” Newt Gingrich said Tuesday night, the latest in a series of mea culpas designed to resuscitate a campaign that conservative commentators believe to be on life support. After calling Paul Ryan to apologize for characterizing the House Republican budget as a “radical” plan that amounts to “right-wing social engineering,” Gingrich said [...]
The Obama campaign is sending around e-mails hocking birth certificate merch and Esquire is running bad satire on Jerome Corsi.
Obama will announce new aid in Mideast speech Thursday. Another poll bears out the simple dynamic of the GOP’s proto-presidential primary: Until some other candidates become better-known, Romney is alone atop the pile. The barren field has drawn Texas Governor Rick Perry’s eye. Newt Gingrich backpedals furiously and calls Paul Ryan to apologize.
It’s some 250 miles from 2613 Dumbarton Street in a quiet corner of Georgetown to the cell blocks at Riker’s Island in New York City, but the psychic distance is much greater. One of the stately Georgian mansions that provide unusual space and privacy in the wealthy Washington neighborhood, Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s brick house, valued at [...]
