Now is the time for the Smart Takes, for pundits to earn their pay, for analysts to analyze the larger significance of the Court’s decision beyond the obvious Obamacare Survives headlines. Here’s my dumb take: Stop …
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Health Care Issue May Fade Fast for Romney
Mitt Romney has long run a campaign obsessively focused on Barack Obama’s economic record. Romney has been so monomaniacal that I recently wondered in this space whether he might actually be putting too much emphasis on the …
Obama’s Big Health Care Win: An Incredible Stroke of Luck
During the Tea Party summer of 2009, when suburban revolutionaries with funny hats and nasty signs began screaming about Obamacare and tyranny, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel urged the President to settle for a less comprehensive …
Supreme Court Hands Barack Obama a Political Win
Barack Obama narrowly escaped a damaging rejection by the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday, when the Justices ruled that the health care reforms commonly known as “Obamacare” passed constitutional muster.
Some Thoughts on LeBron, Obama, and Race. And Some Gloating.
Today, as you may have heard, is a big day in Court-related news. I refer, of course, to the championship parade for my beloved Miami Heat. I’ve written about America’s stupid hatred of the Heat and LeBron James in the past, so the main point I would like to add today is: HAHAHAHAHAHA! But I do have a more serious point to make about …
Romney Debuts a Lighter Touch on Immigration
Pare away the tough economic talk and the requisite condemnations of President Obama, and Mitt Romney’s Thursday address at a conference of Latino elected officials in Orlando was a softer moment for a candidate who spent much of …
Obama and Romney Finally Court Latinos – and Latin America
It’s a doleful time for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, who leaves office in five months. Thanks to a bloody drug war and a limp economy that only now is starting to rebound, his party’s candidate is running third in …
Obama Campaign: Mitt Romney Is ‘Rooting’ for a Worse Economy
An Obama campaign official said Wednesday that Mitt Romney‘s campaign is “rooting” for a worsening U.S. economy to lift his election prospects.
“They are putting all of their chips on worsening economic news,” the official …
Decision 2012: To Heckle or Not To Heckle
Can we at least agree to let each other speak? Apparently not.
The two candidates running for office have taken different approaches to the heckle question. The Obama campaign does not heckle, at least in ways that are …
Political Pictures of the Week, June 9-15
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
No Deportation for Young ‘Illegals’: Obama’s End Run on Immigration Reform
His Re-election in Trouble, Obama Goes Big and Gets Serious
When in trouble, Barack Obama gives big speeches. He has addressed joint sessions of Congress after dismal August recesses, repeatedly interrupted prime-time programming in times of Washington gridlock and pontificated on race …
The Private Sector Isn’t Fine Enough
President obama didn’t mis-speak when he said that “the private sector is doing fine.” It was a perfectly serviceable–fine, one might say–expression of a central point of his instantly notorious White House press …
