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With Social Security sure to come up again at Monday night’s Republican presidential debate, Rick Perry set the stage with an op-ed in USA Today that, er, contextualizes his recent descriptions of Social Security as “a Ponzi scheme” and a “failure.” Now, I subscribe to the view that these views aren’t as politically outrageous as they [...]
Perhaps the only thing that beats a politician in chaps is that same politician walking through a sausage factory, all the while looking good and not at all phony. Meet Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whose long political career, is filled with high quality and effective television spots. Sometimes he is the Marlboro Man. Sometimes he [...]
President Obama reached into the old prop bag Monday, waving around a printed copy of his American Jobs Act fastened together with a fat black binder clip. “This is the bill that Congress needs to pass,” he said, holding the stack of paper aloft for the cameras. “No games. No politics. No noise.” Just good [...]
Let’s take bets. How long will Michele Bachmann wait before making her voice heard during Monday night’s CNN/Tea Party Express debate?
It’d be a mistake to overstate the impact of a single endorsement, especially one from a one-time rival who never commanded much in the way of national popularity or resources, but Tim Pawlenty’s quick backing of Mitt Romney says a few things about the current primary race, only now rounding the corner into its first [...]
Obama will send “American Jobs Act” legislation to Congress tonight along with rhetorical push from the Rose Garden. Congressional Republicans handle Obama’s stimulus proposal with caution. Some 31 million Americans watched the President’s jobs speech. For comparison: 27 million watched the Saints-Packers game right after, and 5.4 million watched the GOP debate the night before. [...]
Everywhere President Obama traveled on Sunday, he was asked to remember. “Never forget,” read the signs held by a half dozen family members of 9/11 victims at Ground Zero, the words framing photocopied snapshots, or blown up portraits, of loved ones who died a decade earlier. “Forget me not,” said the young niece of firefighter [...]
San Antonio, Texas Road Trip 2011 begins today. Well, we had so much fun last time, why not? And there’s still a lot to learn, and enjoy, about this country. So I’m in San Antonio, and in a few hours I’ll pick up our first traveling companion and head down to the Mexican border at [...]
Residents of New York and Washington are fretting over reports that al-Qaeda may want to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, in its own deranged fashion. But our political system remains calm. And it’s worth pausing to reflect on that. After defining much of the decade since the 9/11 attacks, terrorism is no [...]
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