In my magazine story this week, Newt Gingrich told me he plans to run a positive campaign, modeled after Ronald Reagan’s 1980 primary candidacy. This may come as a relief to Mitt Romney, who surely doesn’t relish being the victim of Newt’s political martial arts. But it’s possible that someone else will do that dirty [...]
Occupy Wall Street loses popularity. Why Elizabeth Warren never fit in with the Obama Administration. Democrats’ latest supercommittee offer: $876 billion in spending cuts, with $225 billion from Medicare and $50 billion from Medicaid, and $400 billion in new revenue.
Beware the eye of Newt! Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is a fearsome practitioner of attack politics–just ask the Democratic House Speaker he almost single-handedly toppled in the 1980s, the Democratic barons who lost their power when Newt’s Republicans took back the House in 1994, and Bill Clinton, who outdueled Newt in the mid-1990s but [...]
Twice this summer House Speaker John Boehner tried for a grand bargain on deficit reduction and twice the deal collapsed, in part because there just wasn’t support from within his own conference for the increased tax revenue that Democrats demanded. Fast forward three months, and Boehner is in much the same place.
When Rep. Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign was at its zenith over the summer, the gay rights group Truth Wins Out sent an undercover operative into the Christian therapy clinic her husband Marcus operates in Lake Elmo, Minn. John Becker’s hidden camera captured one of the Bachmann’s therapists agreeing to help try to turn Becker from [...]
A while back, I argued that Rick Perry made good television ads, and his newest spot–”Lazy”–is no exception. But it is also, in the tradition of the best political advertising, inaccurate, fanciful and grammatically adventurous. So let’s break it down.
Herman Cain’s swoon is becoming too painful even to rubberneck. The Gingrich pile-on is now in full swing. Mitt Romney remains the front-runner, in name if not in numbers. And the final candidate of the quartet locked in a tie atop the latest Iowa poll is lurking in plain sight, steadily gaining ground as his [...]
Another week, another disconcerting e-mail dump to push the Solyndra scandal deeper into the history books as an example of why industrial policy in the United States tends to go badly. According to newly released emails, the former Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison told officials at the Department of Energy that he wanted to announce a [...]
–Herman Cain, making the argument that presidential candidates can wait until they are in office to learn about global affairs.
