A few days before the 2010 midterm elections, Mitt Romney opened with this joke at a GOP event in New Hampshire: “It’s nice to be so warmly recognized. I’m not always recognized where I go by the way. The other day I made a phone call. I was trying to dial for dollars, trying to [...]
When running for President of the United States, there are certain things you never want to hear your advisers saying to the press. “I have not yet seen the National Enquirer story,” is one. “The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding,” is another. “Something will happen. Anthony Weiner will resign. Something will [...]
–Millionaire presidential candidate Mitt Romney, trying to joke with jobless Floridians
From the start, my worst fear has been that there would be a “colonels’ coup” in the Pakistani military, in which Islamist junior officers ousted their more pro-western superiors. That scenario seems closer than ever today, as the Times reports that Army chief Ashfaq Kayani is on shaky ground–because the U.S. was able to stage [...]
Rep. Anthony Weiner called House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Steve Israel Wednesday night to inform them that he will be resigning from Congress. The last month has seen Weiner tweet a lewd picture to a 21-year-old college student, lie to the press about it, admit to years of inappropriate online relationships in a [...]
Late last week, the White House released a photo of Vice President Joe Biden meeting with Pope Benedict during a recent trip to Italy. The meeting, which was unannounced and appeared on neither man’s official schedule, took Vatican watchers by surprise. But many were even more thrown by the Vatican’s silence about the papal audience.
Romney is at 30% in the latest WSJ/NBC News poll. The next candidate who’s currently running is Herman Cain at 12% and then Ron Paul at 7%. (I’m excluding Palin and Rick Perry.) There are plenty of caveats that go with one early national poll, but it’s stunning nonetheless. If a campaign is admitting their candidate [...]
This week’s issue of TIME takes a useful metaphor from Joe Klein’s story on the Republican presidential primary field and renders it quite literally on the cover. Of the GOP nominating process, Joe writes: It won’t be a stately procession from Iowa to New Hampshire to South Carolina to Florida this time. It will look [...]
The United States is not engaged in a war with Libya and the War Powers Resolution does not apply to U.S. military action there, according to two White House officials who briefed reporters on Wednesday. “We’re now in a position where we’re operating in a support role. We’re not engaged in any of the activities [...]
Massimo suggests Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman inadvertently stepped into dovish foreign policy territory and that they’ll soon correct — or overcorrect — the mistake. That’s a credible explanation for the former, whose aides spent the day making hawkish reassurances to The Weekly Standard, among others. I don’t buy it for Huntsman.
