Lip Reading Rick Perry
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What You Missed While Not Watching the Fox News/Google Debate
-2 minutes. Most debates start at 8 p.m., but not on Fox News, where that’s Bill O’Reilly’s time slot. At the moment, Bill is talking about “blooters.” “It is a word. You can find it, if you look it up,” Bill says. …
Before a Rusty Bridge in Ohio, Obama Hits Republicans on Their Home Turf
Aboard Air Force One
Before a rusty old bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday, President Obama threw a political punch at his foes. “Mr. Boehner, Mr. McConnell, help us rebuild this bridge. Help us rebuild America,” the President said, just up river from the Brent Spence Bridge. The crowd before him, a couple hundred strong with …
Breaking: Rick Perry Is “An American”
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Lucas Baiano, the guy who made Rick Perry’s new web video, was born and raised on the far side of the Canadian border. This doesn’t matter of course. Baiano is legal to work in the United States, and his dedication to the American political system is unquestioned. After volunteering for both …
In New Tax Offensive, A Reversal of Obama’s Deficit Debate Strategy
President Obama doesn’t take mulligans when he plays golf. The same cannot be said for the way he governs.
How Super PACs Could Eclipse Official Campaigns in 2012
Presidential campaigns are so 2008, like boyfriend jeans or Tila Tequila. If you want to win the White House these days, “Super PACs” are the thing to have.
With the President Still on Defense, Bill Daley Takes His Shots
When you are White House Chief of Staff, or any senior administration official really, you never want to hear the President’s press secretary say publicly you are doing a good job. That’s because there is only one reason for the press secretary to praise you: Someone thinks you are messing up.
What You Missed While Not Watching Last Night’s Tea Party Debate
TIME recaps every absurd minute of the GOP's prime-time food fight on CNN.
Rick Perry Gives Good Ads
Perhaps the only thing that beats a politician in chaps is that same politician walking through a sausage factory, all the while looking good and not at all phony. Meet Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whose long political career, is filled with high quality and effective television spots.
Sometimes he is the Marlboro Man. Sometimes he is right …
In Jobs Push, Obama Pulls Out the Political Props
President Obama reached into the old prop bag Monday, waving around a printed copy of his American Jobs Act fastened together with a fat black binder clip. “This is the bill that Congress needs to pass,” he said, holding the …
In Obama’s Commemoration, a Call to Remember More Than 9/11
Everywhere President Obama traveled on Sunday, he was asked to remember. “Never forget,” read the signs held by a half dozen family members of 9/11 victims at Ground Zero, the words framing photocopied snapshots, or blown up …
Obama Goes Big With a New Stimulus Plan, but the Political Circus Persists
A few minutes into his address to a joint session of Congress on Thursday night, President Obama posed what sounded like a modest challenge to the U.S. Congress: “The question is whether, in the face of an ongoing national …
Social Security: Picture of a Ponzi Scheme or Not?
In 2008, I found myself in the Crystal City office of Doug Holtz-Eakin, the top economic adviser to Republican presidential nominee John McCain. When talk turned to Social Security, he said a version of what just about every serious fiscal analyst says these days: This is not that hard of a nut to crack. Sure there is a debate about just …