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“I’m Jon Huntsman, and I am humbled,” said the good guy candidate when he took the stage. This was a far cry from Mitt Romney’s pitch: I can beat Obama, who is terrible. Or Tim Pawlenty’s pitch: I am honest and conservative. Or Newt Gingrich’s pitch: My mind is a marvel. But Jon Huntsman is [...]
George W. Bush is a fading memory in American politics as the country gets ready for the 17-month stretch to the presidential election in 2012. But watch the video of Gov. Rick Perry at the Republican Leadership Conference last Saturday and the memories come back fast. That’s not entirely accidental.
President Obama spent weeks in 2009 developing an Afghan battle plan that could win consensus from his senior generals. The centerpiece was a pledge to begin drawing down troops in July 2011. But it was never clear that Obama would be able to keep the consensus as that date approached. From the beginning, many in [...]
Jon Huntsman likes to call himself the “margin-of-error candidate.” It is not an accidental phrase. In the seven weeks since the former Utah governor and U.S. ambassador to China returned from Beijing with visions of filling the gaping void in the GOP field, Team Huntsman has seemed interested in nothing so much as humanizing the [...]
Nearly two weeks after the consulting firm McKinsey released a study claiming one-third of businesses would drop insurance benefits once health reform kicks in, the company has disclosed how they generated that figure. This disclosure is welcome news. Other studies have not predicted a mass disruptions of the employer-based health insurance market, which quickly made [...]
Thus ends the era of Anthony Weiner. The resignation will not take effect until midnight Tuesday — the longest day of the year — as the House is not currently in session. See the full PDF here.
In 2008 Mitt Romney ran a Gumby campaign, turning himself inside out trying to be everything to everybody. He bought in to every straw poll, competed in Iowa, signed most pledges–and lost. This time around, Romney seems intent on avoiding the same mistake. He’s not competing in Iowa any straw polls. He refused to take [...]
Barack Obama ran for president on a platform of more limited executive power. “No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient,” he said in August of 2007. “The law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers.” Candidate Obama also introduced a resolution declaring that President Bush required Congressional permission before bombing Iran. [...]
In his 12 terms in Congress, Ron Paul has waged many lonely crusades. Before he was a Tea Party standard bearer and a master of the online money bomb, the man known as “Dr. No” was a libertarian icon who regularly bucked his party’s budgets and preached isolationism* against military intervention when his peers were girding [...]
Don’t hold your breath, our colleague Mark Benjamin writes at TIME’s Battleland blog. The House appears poised to vote on an amendment to a defense appropriations bill that would cut off funding to the war non-hostile armed conflict in North Africa. While the measure could find support among the bipartisan cadre of members irked by [...]
