The state’s new immigration law is now so pervasive in the political landscape, it’s being used as a campaign platform in faraway, borderless South Carolina. Republican Rep. Gresham Barrett, who’s running for governor, is up with this ad stating, “Gresham Barrett’s immigration plan: pass a common-sense Arizona law,” complete with images …
Just one day after Iran announced a deal with Turkey and Brazil to export some of its nuclear fuel for enrichment, Secretary of State Clinton said Tuesday the P5+1 had reached a tentative deal for multilateral U.N. sanctions. Our colleague Massimo Calabresi parses:
Unmoved by the latest Iranian offer, the Administration is pressing
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As you probably know, Trey Grayson is running for Senate in Kentucky. What you might not know is that “Trey” isn’t actually his name. It’s just a handle given to the third in a line of Charles Merwin Graysons. Far from frowning on pseudonymous politicians, the Bluegrass State allows candidates to designate a nickname to run on the …
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–It’s primary day in Arkansas, Kentucky, Oregon and Pennsylvania. Contests between Lincoln and Halter, Paul and Grayson, and Specter and Sestak, as well as a special election between Critz and Burns in PA-12 are widely seen as yardsticks by which to measure this cycle’s anti-establishment …
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–With all eyes turning to Tuesday’s primaries, a Halter-Lincoln runoff looks likely in Arkansas, Rand Paul is crushing in Kentucky, and the Sestak-Specter contest is shaping up to be a squeaker.
—Nate Silver looks at how anti-establishment candidates may fare in general elections, …
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Taking on the media is always something that endears Republicans to their base, and this from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has just the right mix of unapologetic directness, snark and indignation to make conservatives swoon.
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—NPR reports Deepwater Horizon may be dumping oil into the Gulf at 10 times the originally estimated rate, suggesting the spill has already far outpaced the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster.
–Congress is investigating and federal regulators are coming out the other side looking really bad.
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“New York is a tough town, but Nancy Pelosi is one tough lady. That’s one tough lady. And she’s so elegant even as she’s ripping your heart out.”
–President Obama, speaking at a DCCC fundraiser Thursday night in Manhattan.
A few weeks ago, as Congress raked various Goldman suits over the coals for peddling financial products they had later bet against, some observers complained lawmakers’ ire was being directed at the wrong culprits. It was the ratings agencies, the critics argued, that had made these doomed-to-fail packages of debt glimmer and shine. (Our …
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–Some initial reactions to the Kerry-Lieberman energy and climate bill here and here. Brad Johnson has a useful side-by-side comparison with the House bill. Our colleague Bryan Walsh looks at the big picture.
–The politics are a different beast from health care or financial reform. As …
“Who would really want this job for more than one term? …But I have to run now, otherwise it’ll mean letting someone like Mitt Romney step in and get credit for the good stuff that happens after we’ve been through all this crap.”
–President Obama in November, 2009, as reported by Jonathan Alter in his new book “The …
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–Afghan President Hamid Karzai is in Washington today for meetings with President Obama. Our colleague Tony Karon writes it will be a tense debate over when and how to strike a deal with the Taliban. Marc Ambinder describes the optics: “two parents who tolerate each other and cannot …
