The Senate’s deal to sidestep a government shutdown is a respite from, not a resolution to, the Congressional fiscal mire. It didn’t solve the substantive disagreements between the two parties about entitlements or taxes or the economic policies that foster job creation or even why the debt problem driving the budget brinkmanship exists. …
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Stepping back from the brink, Senate leaders on Monday night struck a deal to avert a government shutdown, passing a measure that will fund the government through mid-November and keep money flowing to …
Des Moines, Iowa
Iowans are restless. Six weeks after the political world converged on Iowa for the Ames straw poll, the pace of the race toward the first-in-the-nation caucus has slackened. It’s not that candidates …
Pleasant Hill, Iowa
Bob Vander Plaats is a 48-year-old former high-school principal, three-time failed candidate for Iowa’s governorship and the head of a Des Moines-area Christian conservative advocacy group called the FAMiLY …
Des Moines, Iowa
Michele Bachmann is ambling through the aisles of a cramped meat locker in an industrial section of Des Moines. Massive sides of beef, weighing up to 950 lbs., hang from hooks near the ceiling and droplets of …
Back in May, when Democrats and Republicans in Congress were in the early stages of jockeying for position in the impending debt debacle, John Boehner went to the Economic Club of New York to deliver an ultimatum. The federal debt ceiling wouldn’t be raised, he said, unless the spending cuts in the deal exceeded the size of the hike. …
Republicans on Tuesday night captured the New York City House seat vacated by scandal-scarred Congressman Anthony Weiner, winning a special election in a Democratic district that has grown disillusioned with President Obama and …
Michael Scherer does a nifty job of recapping last night’s debate. A few miscellaneous musings of my own:
-How many Republicans tuned in to catch their first glimpse of frontrunner Rick Perry and were stunned by his faltering performance? Hailed for his swagger and brio, the Texas governor was bloodied by a flurry of jabs and …
Back in May, Democrats pulled off an upset in a special election in Western New York, snatching a House seat in a Republican stronghold. On Tuesday the GOP appears ready to exact its revenge.
Republican Bob Turner, a retired television executive, holds an edge over Democratic Assemblyman David Weprin in the special election to replace …
“Everything in this bill will be paid for,” President Obama promised as he outlined his plan to jump-start the sputtering economy. “Everything.” But Obama isn’t the one charged with deciding how. That task, if the President’s plan ever gets that far, will fall to the members of the joint “supercommittee” on deficit reduction, already …
The members of the powerful Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, colloquially known as the “supercommittee,” brought first-day-of-school optimism and a veneer of bipartisanship to their inaugural meeting on Thursday morning. Don’t expect it to last.
The mantra of the meeting, which consisted of vague opening statements …
Mitt Romney’s second presidential run has largely focused on a single theme: Barack Obama has bungled the economy, and I’m the guy who can fix it. Romney points to his business and management expertise, honed in the boardrooms of …
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In a new ad released on Tuesday, Ron Paul hammers fellow Texan and Republican presidential rival Rick Perry, calling Perry’s conservative credentials into doubt by juxtaposing the candidates’ past political allegiances.
