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As part of my yearlong crusade to purge this space of any mention of a certain sleazeball, self-promoting real estate developer who doesn’t really develop any real estate but mostly makes money by selling his name to actual, if prohibitively foolish, developers who mistakenly think of that name, which rhymes with dump, as something that [...]
Andrew Kaczynski digs up a 2004 video of Mitt Romney explaining to fellow Republicans why flip-flopping is so devastating to a presidential candidate. He was talking about John Kerry of course. But this kind of footage presents all kinds of opportunities for devious ad-makers to slice and dice Romney, and his repeated use of “this [...]
There is enough bipartisan support in Congress to extend a payroll tax holiday first introduced by President Obama along with an extension of unemployment benefits. If nothing is done, both will expire early next year. So, what’s the problem? The debate over how to pay for it has devolved back into the same squabble Republicans [...]
Back in the summer of 2010, there was a handful of political ads that seemed to pay homage to some Ford truck commercials narrated by Denis Leary. Ron Paul is bringing the style back with his latest in Iowa: For comparison:
Despite a dearth of headlines, Ron Paul placed second in the Des Moines Register poll of Iowa voters over the weekend, marking a six-point climb since October. We’ve said it a few times before, but Paul’s quiet rise is worth watching.
However you slice it, the scientific news has not been good on the pace of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. The weekend saw a pair of new studies that confirmed the fact that—far from curbing greenhouse gas emissions—we’re warming the atmosphere faster than ever, even as the slow-moving U.N. climate talks underway now at [...]
So how well did President Obama’s telephoned condolences to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday go over? The call was intended to smooth relations between the two nations ruptured 10 days ago when NATO aircraft killed 24 Pakistani troops in a colossally snafued attack. The call, apparently, didn’t go over well, according to Monday’s The Express Tribune of [...]
–House minority leader Nancy Pelosi on the former Speaker and Republican presidential candidate.
Gingrich surges to first place in Iowa as Paul solidifies second. He’s also gaining on Romney in New Hampshire. His timing is good; a lead 30 days before the caucuses has historically augured victory. He’s joining the Iowa air war today with a $250,000 buy:
Newt Gingrich drips with disdain for sound-bite politics, but last week he authored perhaps the best bumper sticker of the Republican primary race. “I don’t claim to be the perfect candidate,” he said. “I just claim to be a lot more conservative than Mitt Romney and a lot more electable than anyone else.”
