Rick Perry may be a potential threat to Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection, but for now the administration is making a long-shot play to take advantage of the Texan’s potential national ambitions. At issue: whether states can execute foreigners who have been denied access to their country’s diplomats.
In theory, they can’t. The …
HELENA, MT—On a rainy morning in March, Derek Skees sat in a Helena hotel explaining his beef with the federal government. It was as big as all Montana.
Skees, a building contractor from the Flathead Valley, surfed the Tea …
The Anthony Weiner scandal ended in much of the same way it began. Hecklers hijacked the New York congressman’s Thursday afternoon press conference in New York City, rudely interrupting a somber resignation announcement with …
A few days before the 2010 midterm elections, Mitt Romney opened with this joke at a GOP event in New Hampshire: “It’s nice to be so warmly recognized. I’m not always recognized where I go by the way. The other day I made a phone call. I was trying to dial for dollars, trying to help some of our friends around the country. I called a big …
When running for President of the United States, there are certain things you never want to hear your advisers saying to the press. “I have not yet seen the National Enquirer story,” is one. “The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding,” is another. “Something will happen. Anthony Weiner will resign. Something will happen,” …
Rep. Anthony Weiner called House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Steve Israel Wednesday night to inform them that he will be resigning from Congress. The last month has seen Weiner tweet a lewd picture to a 21-year-old …
This week’s issue of TIME takes a useful metaphor from Joe Klein’s story on the Republican presidential primary field and renders it quite literally on the cover. Of the GOP nominating process, Joe writes:
It won’t be a stately procession from Iowa to New Hampshire to South Carolina to Florida this time. It will look more like the
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Massimo suggests Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman inadvertently stepped into dovish foreign policy territory and that they’ll soon correct — or overcorrect — the mistake. That’s a credible explanation for the former, whose aides spent the day making hawkish reassurances to The Weekly Standard, among others. I don’t buy it for Huntsman.
First, watch the spot:
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Make any sense? It doesn’t have to. That’s the whole idea.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce called in response to my post yesterday on the ongoing debt-limit negotiations. In the piece, I linked to a quote from Chamber chief Tom Donohue, who during an event in Atlanta on Monday appeared to warn the House Republicans vowing to vote against a debt-ceiling hike: “We’ll get rid of you.”
Chamber …
One of the few truly reliable campaign strategies for Republican presidential candidates over the last 40 years has been to run to the right of Democrats on foreign and national security policy no matter what the issue, no matter …
After weeks of unforced errors and an unremarkable showing at Monday’s Republican primary debate, Newt Gingrich’s epically calamitous campaign for President started fresh Tuesday morning with one of the candidate’s signature stemwinders in New Hampshire:
I agree with the rapidly emerging CW on the debate: Bachmann did quite well, Mitt is unscathed, Newt is still a non-starter and Tim Pawlenty made a mistake in starting a fight before the debate that he wasn’t prepared to wage in the debate. That said, it is still way too early — even in New Hampshire — for this debate to have much real …
