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At the lowest point of his quixotic campaign for president, Herman Cain burst into song, bringing a baritone rendition of an old Dottie Rambo gospel classic to the National Press Club. “He looked beyond all my faults,” crooned the man leading most polls for the 2012 Republican nomination. “And saw my needs.”
One of Cain’s sexual harassment accusers is asking the National Restaurant Association to waive their non-disclosure agreement so she can tell her story. The NRA payout was a year’s salary, another fact in conflict with the Cain’s account. He’s worried that China might be developing nuclear capability 47 years after the nation tested its first nuclear weapon.
Whether or not Congress’s deficit supercommittee succeeds in finding $1.2 trillion in savings by Thanksgiving, one likely result is that sometime in the next 18 months, Congress will tackle tax reform.
Fox News’s “Hannity” was something special on Monday night with Dick Morris–yes, that Dick Morris–showing up to condemn media coverage of Herman Cain’s alleged sexual harassment episodes. Morris himself has become something special, a Tea Party profiteer extraordinaire, as Brad Plumer ably explained in TNR recently. I found this moment a hilarious example of how [...]
The sexual-harassment story enveloping Herman Cain is still unfolding, and its trajectory over the coming days will determine whether it winds up being a minor hiccup for Cain’s surging campaign or the beginning of its end. But there is no question that the allegations could mushroom into a crisis capable of felling the putative GOP [...]
Bloomberg’s Ramesh Ponnuru neatly explains the revenue problem with the right’s hottest fiscal fashion:
–Herman Cain on why he doesn’t remember the details of the incidents that led two women who worked for him at the National Restaurant Association to accuse him of sexual harassment.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ran a stunning piece on Monday unraveling the twisted, potentially illegal financial spider web connecting Herman Cain’s presidential campaign and Prosperity USA, a Wisconsin corporation founded by Cain campaign manager Mark Block and his deputy Linda Hansen.
It’s one of the biggest – and potentially, most consequential – decisions President Obama has made (not that he had much choice, according to some). He has announced that the 45,000 U.S. troops still Iraq will all be home for the holidays. Critics have said Iraq is too fragile for the U.S. to pull out [...]
The Republican National Committee seems to think the answer is yes. Here the tear gas in Oakland is shown to describe instability in Obama’s America, and the Occupy protesters are used to demonstrate dissatisfaction with Obama.
