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It’s a little hard to take seriously the Republicans trying to shame Obama and other Democrats out of vilifying Paul Ryan’s plan to overhaul Medicare. GOP lawmakers and candidates for office – although not Ryan primarily – spent 2009 and 2010 convincing the public that the Affordable Care Act would gut Medicare and even lead [...]
While most of the media have gone ridiculously aflutter over Sarah Palin’s latest diesel-powered tourist outing slash fan dance, a far more interesting caper is quietly unfolding in New Hampshire. Former New York governor George Pataki is airing a new ad on a Granite State TV station, WMUR. The ad comes from a Pataki-sponsored group [...]
President Obama clashed with House Republicans at a White House confab, the Dow plummeted amid heightening fears of a catastrophic default and new reports revealed anemic job growth. Meanwhile, Washington spent its Wednesday atwitter over Chris Christie’s helicopter, the Palin-Trump pizza summit and Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account. To tamp down questions about the lewd photo [...]
Greg Sargent has an interesting post about Jewish Democratic money sticking with Obama, despite the concerted efforts of Bibi Netanyahu and the Republican party to distort his position on the Israel-Palestine peace negotiations. Obama is not in favor of a simple return to the 1967 borders; he is in favor of new, defensible–an important code [...]
More than a week after his official campaign kickoff that included a tour through multiple morning shows and several cities, Tim Pawlenty still has plenty of work to do. In order to capture the nomination, Pawlenty needs to win or do very well in Iowa, but a new survey released today from Public Policy Polling [...]
Corrected, 12:00 P.M. Jon Huntsman’s first trip to New Hampshire was a get-to-know-you affair, a chance to showcase his skills as a retail politician as he hopscotched through gun shops, VFW halls and living rooms. By virtually all accounts it was a success. The press coverage was fawning, even as Huntsman ducked policy inquiries, declining [...]
One day after Congress rejected a $2.4 trillion increase of the federal borrowing limit without preconditional spending cuts, House Republicans are visiting the White House on Wednesday to negotiate directly with President Obama on the deficit reduction measures that will likely accompany the next debt ceiling vote. The top leaders of both parties, including the [...]
Why should you care that former Serbian military commander Ratko Mladic has been extradited to The Hague, Netherlands, to be tried for war crimes that he and his troops allegedly committed more than 15 years ago? First, the slaughter. As they arrived at a refugee camp in northern Bosnia in July 1995, Muslim survivors of [...]
With the media chasing Sarah Palin’s tour bus up the East Coast and buzz about her presidential prospects renewed, TIME’s Feifei Sun looks at the former Alaska governor’s exploits on the trail in 2011
As Robert Pear shows in his enterprising story in Tuesday morning’s New York Times, the Affordable Care Act—Obamacare—calls for sweeping changes to Medicare. These changes are designed to cut costs by close to $1 trillion, and you can bet there will be pitched battles every step of the way. Pear looks at one particular change:
