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In three congressional terms, presidential contender Michele Bachmann has made a name for herself as a formidable fundraiser. As of her latest filing with the Federal Election Commission, Bachmann had $2.8 million cash on hand (compared with, say, veteran Ron Paul’s $1.6 million). And she took in $13.5 million in the 2010 election cycle, out-raising [...]
With President Obama and House Speak Boehner meeting up for a round of golf on Saturday, TIME looks back at the game’s ubiquitous presence in politics for the last century
President Obama’s Chief of Staff William Daley called his counterpart in House Speaker John Boehner’s office last month to ask if the Speaker and a partner might be free for a round of golf on Saturday, June 18. In the six months since former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs first proposed a golf outing [...]
Here at Swampland, we get results. In April, I explained my principled refusal to join AARP, despite my advanced age, because it defends the ruinous practice of taking money from children and future children to give it to the wealthiest segment of our society: retirees. And not just the seniors who need it (we should [...]
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO— As corn ethanol’s Public Enemy Number One – did my plaque get lost in the mail? — I’m thrilled the Senate voted to kill the industry’s fiscally and ecologically ludicrous tax credit. But it was galling — if not too surprising – to hear Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, complain that the “ill-advised” vote would [...]
Rick Perry may be a potential threat to Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection, but for now the administration is making a long-shot play to take advantage of the Texan’s potential national ambitions. At issue: whether states can execute foreigners who have been denied access to their country’s diplomats. In theory, they can’t. The U.S. Senate ratified [...]
Last week, I expressed some skepticism about a study produced by McKinsey consultants claiming that 30% of employers will stop offering health insurance to their workers as a result of health reform. This high percentage is an outlier and so I was interested in how exactly McKinsey came up with this figure. The company wouldn’t [...]
The Senate slays ethanol subsidies. “Generic Republican” is doing fine against Obama in the early polling. Give Tim Pawlenty three days and he can come up with a middling comeback.
HELENA, MT—On a rainy morning in March, Derek Skees sat in a Helena hotel explaining his beef with the federal government. It was as big as all Montana. Skees, a building contractor from the Flathead Valley, surfed the Tea Party wave last November to a seat in Montana’s House of Representatives. He thinks Washington has [...]
The Anthony Weiner scandal ended in much of the same way it began. Hecklers hijacked the New York congressman’s Thursday afternoon press conference in New York City, rudely interrupting a somber resignation announcement with obscene missives and questions about genital girth. Dignity, on both sides, was in short supply. With new revelations about Weiner’s sexual [...]
