Most GOP candidates turn hard right in the primaries – especially nowadays with the Tea Party threatening purity tests and primary challenges of any RINO, or Republican In Name Only. But not Michele Bachmann.
Obama wades into debt limit talks with goal of raising some new revenues, mostly from the very wealthy. Bowles and Simpson push for a $4 trillion package. Obama’s legislative failures have been punts, not failures despite his public efforts. In a Tuesday speech, Tim Pawlenty will make the case against the inklings of noninterventionism beginning to [...]
Like any group in its infancy, the Tea Party goes through phases. Gone, or at least temporarily shelved, are the noisy rallies, the tricorn hats, the abundant signage that marked its birth in 2009. “We are not a protest organization anymore,” says Matt Kibbe, the president and CEO of FreedomWorks, a conservative advocacy group that [...]
TIME’s Dawn Reiss checks in from Chicago: On Monday, June 27, the jury returned from 10 days of deliberation and everyone gathered to hear its decision. Blagojevich blew an air kiss to his weeping wife and then clasped his hands as courtroom deputy Donald Walker began reading the verdict. The first finding of guilt led [...]
Tim Pawlenty’s summer is off to a rough start. His campaign kickoff in late May was well-received and also well-timed, coming just after Haley Barbour and Mitch Daniels each decided not to seek the Republican nomination, and around the moment of Newt Gingrich’s foot-in-mouth implosion, all of which placed Pawlenty in a fine position to [...]
Michele Bachmann rolled out her official presidential campaign Monday – not to be confused with the unofficial debate announcement two weeks ago – in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa. (When Bachmann was still a child her family moved to Minnesota, where she would eventually get elected to Congress.) Much has been made of Bachmann’s Iowa [...]
As health care remains a top issue in the contest to win the 2012 GOP nomination for President, candidates are working hard to build their own narratives around the issue. Mitt Romney has decided not to back away from the universal health care reforms he championed in Massachusetts, but to emphasize the difference between a [...]
As debt ceiling talks move to the White House, revenue remains the sticking point. A heavy lift may require Nancy Pelosi. Crossroads GPS plans $20 million early ad campaign hitting Obama on the economy:
Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann formally announced her presidential candidacy on Monday morning in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, before heading on a tour of early-primary states. (Yes, she already announced her run for the presidency, more than once, during the recent GOP debate. But that was just an announcement that she filed the necessary paperwork [...]
As Texas’ Republican governor, Rick Perry, gets closer to deciding whether to enter the 2012 presidential race, it’s clear that his campaign would be about jobs. Texas has created by far the most jobs of any state since the recession ended in June 2009: 37% of all net new American jobs were created in Texas [...]
