Slovakia may sink all of Europe by scuttling the sovereign bailout extension. As expected the Senate deep sixes Obama’s jobs bill. Perry caps off last night‘s debate performance with this: “…the reason that we fought the revolution in the 16th century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown.”
It’s debate night in America, again. This is not exciting. What is exciting is that Charlie Rose is standing on a stage and the background is not black. It’s a trick that no one ever thought was possible before, like when Jim Henson put Kermit the Frog on a bicycle in Central Park and made his mouth move. It makes you feel like anything is possible. But let’s not get carried away. This is America in 2011. Next to nothing is possible.
The settings of the Republican presidential primary debates have shifted, as have the roles played by each candidate and the amount of intra-party flak flung about. But the fundamentals remain unchanged: Mitt Romney is sailing through these televised forums unbuffeted by any serious challenge from his rivals.
The Justice Department on Tuesday unsealed a complaint against two Iranians alleging a state-sponsored terrorist plot by members of Iran’s Quds Force against the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir. The complaint alleges that Manssor Arbabsiar, a U.S.-Iranian dual citizen, and his al Quds handler, Gholam Shakuri, tried to hire a DEA confidential source [...]
The Senate Tuesday night is expected to vote down President Obama’s jobs bill. Democrats aren’t even sure they can get 51 votes, let alone the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome a Republican filibuster. And even if it passed, Republican House Speaker John Boehner has declared it dead on arrival in the lower chamber. So, what’s [...]
At the moment, all the energy and momentum in the primary race lies with two candidates: Mitt Romney and Herman Cain. Somehow, the former pizza company executive and motivational speaker is gathering more steam–he’s now running a close second in a new Iowa poll and first in a South Carolina survey. And that means Cain will be front-and-center in tonight’s debate. This raises all sorts of interesting questions.
–Rudy Giuliani, chairman emeritus of the Really, Truly, Honestly Not Running for President club, confirming that he won’t seek the White House.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie endorsed Mitt Romney’s presidential bid on Tuesday afternoon the latest jolt of momentum for a campaign that steadily gathered strength with less than three months before the first wave of Republican presidential primaries
–The percentage of Republican voters who support Jon Huntsman in a new Washington Post-Bloomberg poll.
With Zuccotti Park occupied, Obama’s approval ratings on the economy reaching new lows, and liberal columnists offering daily critiques of what they saw as a stunted stimulus and toothless Wall Street reforms, one can understand why California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom might have thought his recent venting session at a gathering of fellow Democrats in [...]
