–Speaker John Boehner, in a letter rejecting President Obama’s request to present his jobs plan to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 7, the same night as the next Republican presidential primary debate.
Well, I guess the reports of the solar manufacturer Solyndra’s death weren’t so exaggerated after all. Just a few months premature. Solyndra declared bankruptcy on Wednesday and laid off its 1,100 employees. I’ll have more to say about this after I chat with the smooth-talkers who got me to report in June that Solyndra “no [...]
Back in May and before Rick Perry was considering a presidential run, a group of social conservative leaders approached the Lone Star governor. “One of our people wanted to take a look at him,” says Rapid City, S.D., furniture-store owner and conservative organizer Bob Fischer. “Perry became anxious to meet with us, the conservatives of faith.” That [...]
The former Massachusetts Governor and runner-up for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination is poised to make another deep run in the race for the White House. TIME looks at his vibrant family life, business career and political trials.
FreedomWorks, the big-time Tea Party booster run by seasoned Washington insiders, has been a co-sponsor of the latest cross-country bus tour organized by the Sacramento-based Tea Party Express, a sign of the uneasy peace that has mostly prevailed between the myriad Tea Party factions. But Mitt Romney’s planned appearance on the tour has opened a [...]
Perry has a lead, albeit a smaller one, in another national poll. Anecdotally, the left has noticed. John Ellis thinks Perry’ll be unstoppable if he survives the fall debates. He became a millionaire doing land deals during his time in office.
Weeks before the debt-limit showdown came to a head, White House chief of staff Bill Daley held an unannounced retreat for his senior staff at Fort McNair, an Army base near the southern tip of the District of Columbia. The agenda for the June confab was wide-ranging, including a lecture of sorts from the presidential [...]
–An unnamed Mitt Romney adviser explaining that their campaign believes the Rick Perry surge will pass.
The early cold war between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry has turned into real political skirmishing, and speaking in a speech in Perry’s home state on Tuesday, Romney took his most direct shots yet at the Texas governor. The opening battle is over management experience. Both men claim that they know how to get the [...]
The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction — better known as the “supercommittee” charged with pinpointing $1.5 trillion in spending cuts by Thanksgiving — doesn’t yet have a formal operating budget or a date set for its first meeting. But at least it now has a staff director. As they gear up for a frenetic [...]
