With the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing approaching on Monday, former president Bill Clinton gave an eloquent speech this morning at the Center for American Progress. Clinton compares the poisonous political climate that sent Timothy McVeigh to the Murrah building and the debates raging today. He warned political …
As Tea Party groups mark Tax Day by staging protests across the U.S., it’s worth taking a look at yesterday’s New York Times/CBS News poll, which paints a vivid picture of the movement. Journalists — and many others who aren’t among the 18% of Americans who consider themselves Tea Party backers, according to the poll — have had a hard …
An ABC News report quantifies the obvious: life as a private citizen has been lucrative for Sarah Palin. ABC estimates that since stepping down as governor of Alaska in July, Palin has raked in some $12 million from book deals, speaking fees and television projects. According to the network:
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Amid all the hand-wringing over how would-be underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab somehow slipped through security gaps on Christmas Day, it’s easy to forget that anti-terrorism officials did yeoman’s work last fall by thwarting Najibullah Zazi’s plot to detonate bombs in New York City’s subway system. Zazi, an airport-shuttle …
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During the press conference at which he announced he will not run for re-election, Bart Stupak made only passing allusion to the hailstorm of controversy he’s endured since voting for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The nine-term incumbent said his decision was spurred by a desire to spend more …
After enduring a public flogging on Capitol Hill, Toyota execs will now have to contend with regulators’ attempts to slap a civil penalty on the beleaguered automaker. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today that NHTSA, whose purportedly lax oversight made it the target of withering criticism during Congressional hearings …
In this week’s edition of the magazine, I have a short piece about how some residents of a tiny rural community on Maryland’s Eastern Shore are opposing plans to build a State Department facility that would offer the area hundreds of new jobs. You can read it here.
Embrace the Tea Party. “These are our folks — the natural allies of the party of Reagan,” writes the former VP. Invoking the Perot effect on the 1992 presidential election, Quayle argues in the Washington Post that a failure to vie for the movement’s votes could tip the scales toward the Democrats.
As Reagan did 30 years ago,
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There’s little doubt that defenders of states’ rights are feeling emboldened by the perception that the Obama Administration has overstepped its authority on issues ranging from the bank bailouts to health care reform. The New York Times recently published a good piece on how local lawmakers have harnessed this notion as a rallying …
The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and others report that Delaware and Tennessee are the winners of the first round of the Department of Education’s $4.35 billion Race to the Top program, which rewards states who demonstrate a commitment to education reform. More than 40 states applied for grants, and the Obama Administration had …
Doug Thornell, spokesman for Rep. Chris Van Hollen, responds to Rep. Eric Cantor’s statement earlier today, which criticized Van Hollen for politicizing threats made against members of Congress:
“Yesterday, Congressman Van Hollen called upon Republican leaders to condemn the harsh rhetoric that is fanning the flames of extremism
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In a press conference Thursday morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed the spate of threats Democrats have faced over the past few days. Pressed by reporters on whether Republican lawmakers had incited some of those threats, Pelosi offered a measured response. “Words have power. They weigh a ton,” she said. But she also …
As Joe noted earlier, reports of ugly incidents in the wake of the health-care vote keep trickling in. As the Kansas City Star reports (h/t Ben Smith), Democratic Party headquarters in Wichita were vandalized over the weekend; assailants allegedly hurled a brick inscribed with anti-Obama rhetoric through a plate-glass window. A former …
