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Davenport, Iowa Is it elitist to expect that a candidate for President of the United States have a passing familiarity with the English language? Rick Perry is a mud-track biker when it comes to fluency, slipping and sliding past proper usage into the realm of the nitwit ridiculous. Most of his malapropisms are of the [...]
–Mitt Romney’s response to Newt Gingrich’s demand that he call off negative campaign ads.
Congressional Republicans lose the Wall Street Journal editorial board on the payroll tax cut. The White House has scrambled the jets to try to make this a political winner. What’s behind Obama’s job approval bounce.
In a city that thrives on power, being attacked is often a sign that you have some. So in mid-December, when President Obama’s advisers took aim at Americans Elect, a bipartisan clutch of political elites planning to bankroll a third candidate in the 2012 presidential election, the group’s members reacted with dramatized indignation that couldn’t [...]
Just so we’re all caught up, here’s what’s happened in the 2011 episode of Congress’s December Debacle so far: Everyone wants to extend the payroll-tax cut through next year. Democrats and Republicans disagree on the particulars. The Senate overwhelmingly passed an undesirable two-month extension so they could get out of Dodge and spend Christmas with [...]
Adam mentions below that the prominent Iowa social conservative Bob Vander Plaats has endorsed the fervently pro-life, “values”-centric Rick Santorum. My first reaction is to shrug, because Rick Santorum is not only a virtually hopeless contender for the GOP nomination, but also an extreme long shot even to win Iowa, despite the slightly tragic amount [...]
The Iowa caucuses are unlikely to deliver any candidate a clear mandate in the Republican presidential nomination contest in two weeks. In fact, if anything, the chances for a split decision are growing every day — as today’s campaign highlights make abundantly clear.
The ubiquitous fact-checking outfit PolitiFact has chosen Democrats’ charge that Paul Ryan’s budget would “end Medicare” as its Lie of the Year. This dubious honor, which follows 2009 and 2010 rulings that both went against the GOP for its health care claims, is a coup for House Republicans, who will no doubt face an onslaught [...]
If you ever wondered about the impact of negative advertising, just take a look at the difference between Gingrich’s standings in the national polls and in Iowa.
House GOP delays vote on Senate payroll tax cut extension, may try to move straight to conference. Two-month extensions really are a bad idea. Gingrich’s national lead is gone. Iowa expectations.
