The New York Times reports–again, but more prominently–that illegal immigration from Mexico has fallen off a cliff. The annual rate has dropped from 500,000 per year to less than 100,000 last year. This is yet another triumph, sort of, that the Obama Administration has refused to tout. (One wonders if the reasons are political: Latino [...]
Mitt Romney is still dominating New Hampshire in the latest Granite State Poll, but Michele Bachmann has shot to the front of the also-ran pack. Pawlenty and Huntsman remain stalled. The conservative Union Leader dings Romney’s economic message. The Salt Lake Tribune continues its great series on the Huntsmans. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Huntsman’s former campaign [...]
For all the melodrama in weeks of Washington’s deficit reduction talks – Republicans walking away from the table, President Obama calling them on the carpet, Wednesday’s purely symbolic vote on “shared sacrifice” from the wealthy – things have actually turned a corner in recent days. We are approaching the end of what I like to call the Five Stages [...]
Never mind the mix of taxes and spending. With a potential default on the national debt less than a month away, President Obama and congressional Republicans can’t even agree on how much more borrowing authority any debt limit deal should involve. On Tuesday, Texas Senator John Cornyn became the latest Republican to suggest that the [...]
It remains entirely possible, despite his summer slump, that Tim Pawlenty will win Iowa, and all the attendant money and momentum that comes with that feat. Hiring the daughter-slash-political-advisor of Mike Huckabee, who won Iowa in 2008, probably helps a little bit. If it means that Pawlenty may be lining up an endorsement from Huck [...]
Mark Benjamin notes that it’s not just Jon Huntsman who is fatigued with Afghanistan and wary of Libya:
According to Gallup, about 70% of Republicans know who Rep. Michele Bachmann is. As her presidential bid continues, people will also start to recognize a certain silver-haired man in her retinue: her husband, Marcus Bachmann. Last Tuesday, both the New York Times and the Washington Post ran front page-photos of the congresswoman announcing her candidacy. [...]
The Obama administration continues its effort to outmaneuver Congress on the ongoing mission in Libya this week. On Tuesday afternoon the Senate will hold a cloture vote on the bill approved last week 14-5 by the Foreign Relations committee. It’s a narrow bill that authorizes Obama’s Libya war for a year. Administration and Congressional officials [...]
The political media is having fun with a new Mitt Romney flip-flop, namely that the former Massachusetts governor first said, last week, that Barack Obama’s policies made the great recession worse, then denied having saying said that*, and then repeated the original charge in New Hampshire on Sunday, saying that “the recession is deeper because [...]
The New York state legislature’s passage of the Marriage Equality Act was the third landmark victory in six months for the gay-rights movement, following the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in December and the Obama Administration’s decision to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). And while the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and [...]
