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I was flattered to learn from Joe Klein’s Aug. 15 column in TIME that Barack Obama is reading my book Nixonland. The book is about the “separate and irreconcilable fears” over the past 50 years that have come to define the increasingly acrimonious cohabitation of Americans on the left and on the right. I assume [...]
–Rick Perry questioning the existence of anthropogenic climate change in New Hampshire on Tuesday.
On Sunday in Memphis, Tavis Smiley, the talk-show host, and Cornel West, the Princeton professor, closed a 16-city bus tour intended to draw attention to some of the rarely discussed aspects of the economic crisis: The poverty rate is 14.3%, the highest since the mid-1990s. A record 45.8 million people receive food stamps. “Poverty and [...]
Obama to give “major” stimulus speech in September. He may ask supercommittee to pursue jobs measures. At this point, he’s pretty much running against Congress. He’s running after white votes.
In his presidential-campaign kickoff on Aug. 13, Texas Governor Rick Perry burnished his conservative credentials by attacking the idea of deficit stimulus spending. “Washington’s insatiable desire to spend our children’s inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given us record debt and left us with far too many unemployed,” he said. [...]
Over the past two months, YouTube has cataloged the public’s opinion of various members of Congress via an online Town Hall, and today, the (completely unscientific) results are in! Viewers were not told politicians’ party affiliation until after they saw and voted for their videos. While Republicans’ videos received over 1 million views, far more [...]
As the resident Fed bore, what interested me about Rick Perry’s attack on Ben Bernanke, aside from the additional evidence that the guy seems a few books short of a library, was his implicit acknowledgment that printing more money could help juice the economy. Presumably that’s why it would be so treasonous to do it [...]
Rick Perry wants to have a conversation about federal entitlement programs. That conversation is, in effect, about how to end them. “I would suggest a legitimate conversation about [letting] the states keep their money and implement the programs,” he said of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to Newsweek’s Andrew Romano last year. This is, naturally, [...]
The first question posed by Rick Perry’s much-ballyhooed entry into the GOP presidential race was whether he would run to the center, targeting Mitt Romney and positioning himself for the general election, or whether he would stay in his Tea Party comfort-zone on the right wing. It’s an indicator of the success of Michele Bachmann’s [...]
On the heels of his second-place finish in the Ames straw poll, Ron Paul is up in Iowa and New Hampshire with a new ad that casts the Texas Representative as a lone crusader in a “lost city.” According to Politico’s James Hohmann, who first reported it, the 65-second spot is a six-figure buy. It [...]
