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There’s some talk this morning about whether various things Herman Cain said this weekend will pop his super-inflated bubble. Maybe, but not everything plays with base Republican voters the way Washington thinks it does. Take Cain’s controversial line about building an electrified border fence. If you’ve seen the video, you’ll note that a lot of [...]
Last week Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab pleaded guilty in a Michigan court to conspiring to blow up Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009 using a bomb sewn into his underpants. The plea, which came on the second day of the trial and surprised prosecutors, was quickly touted by Attorney General Eric Holder as [...]
Herman Cain does Meet the Press. He’s never heard of neoconservatism. HHS nixes the CLASS act, a $86 billion long-term insurance program passed with the Affordable Care Act. Third quarter filings: Romney is strong in New York and spending on direct mail, while Perry’s leaning heavily on Texas and only dishing out for travel and [...]
Confronted with a President who has killed Osama bin Laden and an almost comically long list of his deputies and associates, the Republican presidential candidates have struggled to attack Obama’s national security policies. Few on the right are complaining about his detention and interrogation policies, not even after Obama officials Mirandized a suspected Iranian-backed terrorist on U.S. soil this week.
Presidential hopeful Herman Cain isn’t just a former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza and head of the National Restaurant Association. He is also a prolific writer, who produces a weekly opinion column syndicated by the North Star Writers Group.
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Four second-tier Republican presidential hopefuls — Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum — are threatening to bypass the Nevada caucuses if they take place Jan. 14, as presently planned. This is not, as you might surmise, because they’re sticklers for following RNC guidelines (which the Silver State skirted by bumping up its [...]
–Former Texas A&M cheer yell leader Rick Perry on what he would cheer yell at his presidential campaign. [Via]
As my colleague Michael Crowley notes, the anti-Mitt Romney vote is still a lot bigger than the pro-Romney vote. I agree with Michael that Romney doesn’t have this thing as sewn up as the inside the Beltway pundits are saying. That said, he’s smartly playing his rivals off of one another to ensure that that [...]
Boehner orders up infrastructure, aviation and trade bills. Het gets prickly with Obama on jobs. The White House weighs a plan to woo private firms into a bigger role in housing finance. Romney continues Sino saber-rattling on trade.
