There have been innumerable references in the wake of the death of Osama Bin Laden to Barack Obama’s 2007 assertion that he would go into Pakistan to kill the al-Qaeda leader with or without Islamabad’s permission. What most have forgotten is that the saber-rattling threat was crafted specifically to counter a dovish gaffe.
A spokeswoman for the cable giant Comcast says the company only approached Federal Communications Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker, who’s just announced she’ll join the company as senior vice president of government affairs for NBC-Universal, about a potential job as a lobbyist in mid-April. Baker then alerted FCC General Counsel Austin Schlick, and recused herself from further [...]
As I suspect dozens of outraged e-mailers have already reminded him, Mark Halperin did not include the libertarian sensation Ron Paul in his new rundown of the 2012 Republican presidential candidates’ odds of winning the nomination. But we’ll be seeing plenty of the Texas Congressman, who officially announced his candidacy this morning in Austin, in [...]
He has Mitt Romney at 3-1 to win the Republican presidential nomination, Mike Huckabee at 9-1, Mitch Daniels at 10-1, Tim Pawlenty at 18-1, Jon Huntsman at 20-1, Newt Gingrich at 40-1 and Sarah Palin at 60-1:
The main problem Newt Gingrich faces in his campaign for President is not going to be the number of liberals who don’t like him. It’s going to be the number of conservatives who don’t like him. This goes way back.
Mitt Romney takes more conservative elite fire after his health care speech, and responds to the Journal‘s bruising op-ed. His thinking seems to be that this might bleed the poison from the system early. Chris Cillizza suggests it might be about proving authenticity, rather than policy. Tim Pawlenty, a solid “Not Romney” candidate on paper, [...]
This is what the guessing game has come to: I spent part of Thursday night watching a choppy feed of a banquet in Indianapolis, trying to interpret a speech given by a woman desperate to escape the klieg lights of politics. Cheri Daniels, the wife of Indiana Governor and possible presidential contender Mitch Daniels, did [...]
Attorney General Eric Holder stunned Bob Mueller when he told the FBI director late last month that President Obama wanted him to stay on for two more years. Mueller, 66, was already the longest serving director since J. Edgar Hoover, and he is poised to become the first to outlast the 10-year term that Congress [...]
The Senate Ethics Committee released a report Thursday afternoon alleging that former Sen. John Ensign broke federal laws in a cover-up of the extramarital affair that torpedoed his once-promising career.
Anyone who thought Barack Obama’s post-Bin Laden national security swat would diminish opposition to closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay received bad news today.
