Michael Scherer noticed four things in the Obama campaign’s new video about its strategy for getting the President reelected in 2012. Let me add one more: At no point in the six-minute video does campaign manager Jim Messina even hint at a reason why the president ought to be reelected in 2012.
Miscellany
Q&A: Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist
Since founding Americans for Tax Reform in the 1980s, Grover Norquist has become one of the conservative movement’s most influential figures. Each Wednesday, Norquist, 54, draws an eclectic mix of center-right activists to his …
Morning Must Reads: Prepared
- Republicans still better at chicken: Speaker Boehner says he’s prepared not to hold a debt limit vote if he’s not getting his way.
- A USA Today/Gallup poll holds some pretty good numbers for Republicans on the budget: 48% support reducing deficits with mostly spending cuts; 37% support a mix of cuts and tax hikes; 11% prefer mostly
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The Clown Candidacy
In the annals of political reportage, I thought perhaps we’d hit bottom last week with this: a fake journalist interviewing a fake presidential candidate about a campaign that will never exist. Meghan McCain and Trump banter …
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Morning Must Reads: History
- WikiLeaks drops Gitmo files, though revelations are few. The documents tell the story of what alleged plotters were doing on 9/11.
- The Washington Post reports out the slow death of the effort to close Guantanamo:
Is the Fed Failing?
If Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke had a tank, I wouldn’t just be in it; I’d probably be the bouncer checking ID’s at the door. I wrote the 2009 Person of the Year profile that credited him with saving the global …
Sullivan’s Truth
Andrew Sullivan is my friend. I admire many things about him, but given the superficialities of blog life, I sometimes forget just how fabulously profound he can be. This, on Good Friday, is a reminder.
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Morning Must Reads: Escalation
- John McCain is on the ground in Benghazi, Libya. Bruce Crumley sees the trip as a bellwether of escalation.
- The war of attrition has slowed.
- Chris Cillizza mulls the possibility that the 2012 GOP field is already ossified.
- Sure, Palin was overcovered and Donald Trump is overcovered, but what jumps out on this chart from Nate
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Bank of America Lawyer, Consultant Gave Foreclosure Probe Chief $15,000
Iowa’s Democratic Attorney General Tom Miller is known for taking on big business. Elected to eight four-year terms, he led a multi-state anti-trust case against Microsoft in 2001 and filed a suit against 79 drug companies in …