“You can see it’s not selling very well. Why don’t you try to come up with something else?” That candid quote of the day comes from Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor, responding to solicitor general Donald Verrilli’s argument before the High Court on Wednesday that a provision of a controversial Arizona law requiring police officers to ask for [...]
Are you sitting down? It looks as if Newt Gingrich may have wildly over-stated his own prospects and Mitt Romney might just pull this one out.
With a good chance of a Republican Congress and budget priorities free from the filibuster, Romney’s presidency could be transformational. Paul Krugman asks what ever happened to his beloved professor. Scott Brown will release 6 years of taxes, which puts the squeeze on both his opponent (Elizabeth Warren) and his advisers’ other client (Mitt Romney).
Recession and deportations have ground immigration from Mexico to a full stop. American Future Fund produces the requisite GSA attack ad:
It can be a little hard to follow the teachings of Washington’s centrist cognoscenti. In arguing that a grand fiscal bargain is feasible even in this heated election year, the New York Times today talked to middle-way thinktankers and Gang-of Senators (your Warners, Grassleys and Wydens)–in other words, the types who always think the Simpson-Bowles deficit proposal is one Super [...]
–Rep. Allen West warning Romney against supporting a Republican version of the DREAM Act, or campaigning at all really.
Orrin Hatch falls less than 50 votes short of avoiding a Senate primary in Utah. The Times uncovers a Walmart bribery scandal in Mexico. There’s a minor Romney-son side story. It’s cybersecurity week in Congress.
Signs increase that the recovery could falter. The Obama campaign prepares for war. GOP super duper PAC raises $100 million.
Romney’s low favorable rating isn’t anything close to a disqualifier. His campaign warms up to the eating dog thing much faster than McCain’s would’ve. Campaigning to cut federal agencies hasn’t really worked. After a lot hyped divisions, both parties have already closed ranks.
TIME’s mega-list of influentials is out today and it includes a veritable panoply of political names, both luminary and less well-known: Former employer Bill Bain tells a flattering office anecdote about Mitt Romney. Ralph Nader, who knows a thing or two about presidential campaigns of principle, writes about kindly septuagenarian doctor turned Libertarian super-celebrity Ron Paul. Uberlawyer Ted Olson explains [...]
