TIME’s legal columnist Adam Cohen writes this week that voters’ decision to oust three Iowa Supreme Court justices whose ruling paved the way for gay marriage in the state is a cautionary tale against electoral tests for judicial appointee:
The Iowa vote is just the latest evidence that elections are a terrible way of choosing judges
…
Forget those rumors that she’ll take Joe Biden’s place on the presidential ticket. At lease one Chicago dentist, William DeJean, with deep pockets has launched a movement to get Hillary Clinton to challenge President Obama for the top spot in 2012, according to our friends at CNN. The minute-long ad is thus far only airing in New …
Washington is expressing collective shock – shock, I tell you – this morning over Sarah Palin’s second quarter 2010 FEC report. Might she be running for president in 2012??
I’ve always through Palin would run – though it flies in the face of the MSM group think inside the Beltway. How could she run without the staff? The …
The only thing less valuable than a statewide poll more than two years before an election–which is itself worth about as much as a keg cup two days before a party–is an online betting line for a Senate election two years out. (Remember, just a couple weeks ago, France, which cannot even agree on a practice schedule, was listed at 20/1 …
There are some delicious contretemps going on over at Atlantic.com, home of the mega-watt blogger. Joshua Green doesn’t think Palin will run for president. Andrew Sullivan does. But that’s not all. Sullivan accuses Green of dangerous complacency, and willful myopia.
[W]here the f— have you been this past year?
It doesn’t matter
…
Mitt Romney is a competent politician and competent politicians usually know how to duck questions about topics they don’t want to talk about. They respond briefly and vaguely and then turn to something slightly related, but far less politically toxic. This is the pivot and it’s a skill every politician must have down pat. So why does …
To hear the chatter, this is big, like The Beatles partying with The Rolling Stones, or Prince sharing a stage with Michael Jackson, or Elvis doing a surfer movie with Frank Sinatra. The two alpha women of conservative politics, Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin, will share the same stage in Minnesota Wednesday for a rally, with a private …
Yesterday, in a post about President Obama’s offshore oil drilling plan, I noted that the “candidate of change” had once talked out of both sides of his mouth on offshore exploration. He condemned John McCain for wanting to expand offshore oil drilling one day, and then said another day that he was open to expanding it. So it …
One advantage the GOP had in the health debate was its total disregard for nuance when it came to messaging. Again and again, Republicans over-simplified provisions in the Democratic plan and convinced a lot of Americans that reform was bad in the process. They said the bill would gut Medicare by slashing half a trillion dollars in …
Well, not exactly. But this chart, which was released by Organizing For America, is sure to feature prominently in the messaging that Obama will use to try to win reelection. Americans are not yet feeling much more economically secure, but the trends here suggest they will be on the path by 2012.
So look for Obama to echo the …
I’m back from the Last Frontier with this week’s dead tree cover story on Sarah Palin, written with the very excellent editor-at-large David Von Drehle. I don’t think this will be the last we hear from the soon-to-be-former governor. To me, one of the most interesting aspects of the story is how vehemently the Palin camp blames Barack Obama.
