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The Governor of Texas is heading for the headlines. “I’m going to think about it,” Rick Perry told the Austin American Statesman on Friday, about a possible 2012 presidential run. This would be a big deal, perhaps even more disruptive to the GOP field than Sarah Palin deciding to make a run for it. Perry, [...]
There are continuing ruffles and trifles about whether President Obama said anything at all different about the borders of a Palestinian state. Much of it is either meta-talmudic picky (Glenn Kessler in the Washington Post) or poisonously disingenuous (the ever-bilious Charles Krauthammer). Kessler’s gripe is that Obama is the first President to use the “1967 [...]
While the President has been playing the mug’s game proposed by the Republicans–cutting government spending in a time of economic uncertainty–the actual economy has been burping and stuttering, as David Leonhardt points out today. Here’s an inconvenient thought: Job growth in the private sector has been steady, if not spectacular…Is it possible that the recovery [...]
–Republican Rep. Jack Kingston of Georgia, explaining how negotiating Medicare reform is like swimming naked.
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin signed a bill on Thursday authorizing the state to adopt single payer health care – a move some liberals are cheering, saying the state could be a model for single payer on a much larger scale. But not so fast. Here’s why liberals shouldn’t celebrate just yet and why Vermont’s single [...]
Elizabeth Warren (or anyone else for that matter) won’t be recess appointed over the Memorial Day break. David Leonhardt is worried about the recovery. What happens if the U.S. defaults on its debt? It did, on April 26, 1979. This may not come as a great shock, but Mitt Romney is running for President. He’ll announce June 2 in [...]
Talk to just about any Democratic strategist these days, and the first or third thing mentioned is the wonderfulness of having an opponent again. Back in 2010, of course, Democrats tried for months to pretend they were running against something — John Boehner, George Bush’s legacy, Slurpees — but the public never bought it. That [...]
–Former Vice President Dick Cheney, explaining his admiration for the House Republican budget chairman. In related news, Tim Pawlenty accedes to the inevitable and says he’d sign Ryan’s budget into law as President if no alternatives were available.
At the annual Rolling Thunder event in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, Sarah Palin will kick off a week-long tour of U.S. historical sites. She will be accompanied by her husband Todd and daughter Piper. “The tour will originate in Washington, D.C., and will proceed north up the east coast,” reads a statement from her PAC. [...]
Vowing to help assemble “the most robust, aggressive presidential campaign in history,” Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the new chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, lashed Barack Obama’s Republican opponents in terms the GOP often uses to attack the President. “Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Jon Huntsman — I’m concerned about their commitment to American exceptionalism,” she said [...]
