Democrats think they’ve found a great campaign issue for the 2012 elections—raising taxes on millionaires. And to judge by Republicans’ reactions, they may be right. “We agree with what the President said,” says Don Stewart, spokesman for Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. “You shouldn’t be raising taxes in a weak economy.” That neatly sums up [...]
–Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s response to a question asking how she paid for school tuition. Republican incumbent Scott Brown, who posed nude for Cosmo during law law school, astonishingly later remarked, “Thank God.”
In my new print column, now available online to subscribers, I lament Chris Christie’s decision not to run for President on the grounds that I was hoping to have a Leader of the Free World fatter than me. Actually, the New Jersey governor is to be congratulated for understanding that he didn’t have nearly enough [...]
Obama on Steve Jobs: The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented. Obama’s jobs plan may be legislatively futile, but it could help politically. When campaign ads matter.
Even by the standards of a strange and unpredictable Republican primary season, it’s amazing to see an African American former pizza mogul vault into the top tier of the 2012 GOP field, at least as measured by several recent national polls. The question is whether the sudden rise of Herman Cain is a passing fluke, [...]
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will not seek the Republican nomination to challenge Barack Obama for the White House, she said in a statement sent to TIME. “After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States,” Palin wrote in [...]
–Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
Rick Perry reportedly raised $17 million in the nearly two months since he burst into the Republican presidential race. It’s an impressive haul that places the Texas governor squarely in the top-tier of the Republican money race with Mitt Romney, who apparently took in some $14 million in the the same period. The Federal Elections [...]
Democrats just can’t get enough of Ronald Reagan these days. He is a role model for President Obama, a liberal policy foil in the tax fight debate and a historical marker for campaign strategists. Reagan even gets applause at Democratic National Committee fundraisers.
Thirty-four percent, to be precise. That’s how many veterans believe the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were worth fighting, according to a new and dispiriting – but not surprising – Pew Research Center poll. Americans prefer wars like the first Gulf War – 100 days of bombing, followed by 96 hours of ground combat, then a [...]
