When you are White House Chief of Staff, or any senior administration official really, you never want to hear the President’s press secretary say publicly you are doing a good job. That’s because there is only one reason for the press secretary to praise you: Someone thinks you are messing up.
Rick Perry is still laboring to articulate a clear position on Afghanistan.
The talented Mike Grunwald laid out the case yesterday for quarantining Solyndra from the rest of the solar effort. Just because Solyndra’s model failed, he says, doesn’t mean the rest of the push to fund innovation in renewable energy while simultaneously creating much-needed jobs is corrupt or doomed to failure. It’s really not my area, [...]
Austin, Texas Chuck Gordon couldn’t find anyplace to store his stuff. He was a UCLA art major, about to spend junior year abroad in Singapore. He checked out the regular storage places in LA and it was going to cost something like $1000, which his father said was just too expensive. But his girlfriend had [...]
Obama will use a bridge in Boehner’s district to press his stimulus bill. A once bullish John Ellis is unimpressed by Perry’s recent performances. He hasn’t been consistent on Afghanistan.
Judges on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sounded skeptical this week as they heard arguments about why a ban on sharia law in Oklahoma courts should become part of the state’s constitution. “We just have sharia law singled out,” said Judge Scott Matheson, while one of his colleagues pressed the state’s solicitor general [...]
OK, it’s one thing for me to have you, dear readers, determine my itinerary for this road trip. It’s a bit more risky to crowd-source my choices for the first day of the Austin City Limits festival. But let’s take a shot.
Back in May, when Democrats and Republicans in Congress were in the early stages of jockeying for position in the impending debt debacle, John Boehner went to the Economic Club of New York to deliver an ultimatum. The federal debt ceiling wouldn’t be raised, he said, unless the spending cuts in the deal exceeded the [...]
Summer is fast turning to fall here in New Hampshire, where I’m reporting a story for the print magazine, and it strikes me that there’s been curiously little talk of late about this state’s traditionally all-important primary. To be fair, in the past several months the Republican presidential race has revolved around other things: Iowa, [...]
A quick look at the list of Perry’s high-dollar donors shows that those who’ve given generously to the Texas governor have received generous rewards in return.
