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“I won’t bore you,” President Obama said, as he broke into America’s prime time TV lineup on Monday night. This was ironic, because he went on to talk about Triple A credit ratings, Dwight Eisenhower and the debt limit. If not for him, America could have been slouching toward another Law & Order rerun, or [...]
Clarification appended, 11:15 AM Tuesday: House Speaker John Boehner hawked his new proposal to raise the federal debt limit on Monday afternoon, imploring House Republicans in a closed-door meeting to back a plan that meets the GOP’s signal demands, but falls short of the strict standards imposed by Tea Party purists who remain resistant to [...]
Updated Tuesday 7/26 9:30 a.m. Before they knew the facts of the terror attacks in Norway last Friday, editors at the Wall Street Journal concluded it was the work of Islamic extremists and whipped off the following kicker paragraph for an editorial that appeared in Saturday’s paper: In Jihadist eyes [Norway] will forever remain guilty [...]
In 2008, Barack Obama captured more than two-thirds of the Latino vote, largely on the promise that he would make immigration reform a first-term priority. Even the President acknowledges that promise has gone largely unfulfilled, and as a result his popularity is plunging among Latinos. Can President Obama reenergize a diverse constituency for his 2012 [...]
–President Obama explaining to the National Council of La Raza how he feels about trying to work with Congress.
An allegation that Oregon Rep. David Wu engaged in sexual misconduct with the teenage daughter of a friend has forced the Democrat out of next year’s election and renewed questions about his fitness for office. An Oregon paper broke news of the allegation on Friday, and by Sunday night, a senior Democratic official said the [...]
They say in politics that you know you’ve become a statesman when you’ve been on almost every side of an issue at one time or another. When Washington politicians draw lines in the sand, those lines are almost always temporary. Just look at the debt-limit negotiations. House Speaker John Boehner last week accused President Obama [...]
Other-Michael’s swell piece on Rick Perry is a reminder that a GOP presidential race which feels well underway may be in for a complete reboot before long. And while we know some things about Perry, he remains under-covered in proportion to the enthusiasm a lot of Republican establishment insiders feel about him. That’s why this [...]
With each passing week, Texas Governor Rick Perry seems to be inching closer to a run for the presidency. His supporters have been calling around to social conservatives urging them to keep their powder dry. Conservative kingmakers have begun to discuss Perry as the only one who checks both the “conservative” and “electability” boxes. And [...]
Debt impasse produces new heights of public disdain for political parties. Global markets dip slightly. The teen daughter of a friend of David Wu has accused the Oregon congressman of aggressive and unwanted sexual behavior. He won’t seek re-election, but is resisting resignation. Pelosi and Israel have called for an ethics probe.
