This online video bashing Jon Huntsman from the right is a good introduction to the challenge the former U.S. ambassador to China faces in winning over conservative voters.
This week’s magazine features my story from inside President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign, including plans to train more than 1,500 full-time volunteers early next month for a summer of on-the-ground organizing. The plan is big: to call or meet with hundreds of thousands of former volunteers for an open-ended conversation about the 2012 election. The [...]
From the magazine: Scherer on Obama 2012′s fledgling ground operation and Joe on Bibi’s political provocations, The Times connects the dots on a few circulating Sarah Palin stories and confirms the Arizona house is hers. Mitt Romney may have been playing politics, but the substance of what he proposed on the auto bailouts was not far from [...]
Last night on Lawrence O’Donnell’s MSNBC program, I called the Democratic win in New York’s 26th district “a victory for socialism.” My tongue was planted firmly in cheek–I was mocking the radical Republican tendency to pin the S-word on anything that involves government participation…and Medicare does happen to be a single-payer government health care program, a “public option,” [...]
According to reports out Wednesday, the Justice Department may be close to bringing criminal charges against John Edwards regarding campaign funds they allege he used to cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter, and to hide both Hunter and their baby daughter. In response, Edwards’ counsel Greg Craig — whom you may remember as the [...]
I tend to be ethically opposed to writing about political votes — votes that either chamber undertakes simply to get members on the record. These votes have little to do with actually making laws and everything to do with millions of dollars in broadcast commercials. I can just hear the baritone narrator’s voice now: “Dean [...]
After receiving an “A” from the Cato institute in 2010 for his record as governor of Minnesota, you might think that members of the libertarian think tank would be excited by the prospect that Tim Pawlenty, who outperformed Mitch Daniels and Haley Barbour in that basic policy test last year, remains in the running for [...]
Jared Loughner, the suspect in a January massacre that left six dead and 14 wounded in a Tucson shopping center, has been declared mentally unfit to stand trial by a federal judge. The ruling, issued Wednesday afternoon during a hearing in a Tucson courtroom, will send Loughner to a federal mental-health facility for treatment and [...]
–Former President Bill Clinton on reforming federal health care entitlements
Tony Karon listened and it was pretty much what you’d expect: Obama’s key point: The ”special relationship” is fine, unchanged, based not just on shared history, heritage, language and culture, but on “values and beliefs that have united our people through the ages”. Great things had been achieved over the past decade in saving the global [...]
