Ever since GOP House budget committee chairman Paul Ryan unveiled a plan to, among other things, voucherize Medicare, Democrats have been practically gloating about the opening Ryan created. One by one the 2012 GOP presidential candidates are being asked whether they endorse Ryan’s plan, praised as courageous by many conservatives, in part, because it’s such [...]
I’ve already registered my skepticism that not much will come of Obama’s assertion yesterday that “the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps.” The statement is not, as many are claiming today, a demand for a return to pre-1967 borders: 1967 lines refer at most to [...]
SACRAMENTO—Forget the former California governor who’s once again a tabloid sensation. Let’s talk about the former California governor who’s once again a California governor. Jerry Brown, the Golden State’s 34th and 39th chief executive, is now trying to clean up Arnold Schwarzenegger’s mess–not the love-child mess, but the budget-deficit mess. The quirky Governor Moonbeam who [...]
Former Obama aides’ independent expenditure group Priorities USA Action is up with its first ad of the 2012 cycle, hitting Mitt Romney on local stations in South Carolina this weekend. Romney et al. accuse Obama of “throwing Israel under the bus” in Thursday’s speech, even though there’s nothing particularly new about calling for the 1967 borders [...]
Sure, Newt Gingrich has been a center of media attention before, but a lot has changed since he was in office in the 1990s. And part of Gingrich’s problem is that he’s unused to modern media. His troubles started in a traditional venue when he told Meet the Press host David Gregory that Paul Ryan’s [...]
“The key to running a campaign of ideas is cheerful persistence,” Newt Gingrich told TIME’s Alex Altman by e-mail early Thursday. And that’s the strategy Gingrich has pursued, pressing on against strong headwinds with multiple campaign events in Iowa, from where Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler has been tweeting a stream of updates and photos describing [...]
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, floated this week as Republican elites’ “savior” in a weak field, will reportedly decide on a presidential run by the end of the month. Mitt Romney probably loses the most if Daniels jumps in, but there’s one consolation.
That’s part of the takeaway from Crowley’s magazine profile, hitting newsstands Friday:
Listening to the commentary, you might think President Obama’s speech on Thursday was an important moment in Middle East history. It is a “hugely important speech,” said Wolf Blitzer on CNN in the run-up; Obama to “Reset” Middle East policy, declared U.S. News. But in the coming months, the speech is more likely to look [...]
