Bob Cesca points to this line from Newt Gingrich: GINGRICH: “When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets.” As Bob points out, we only had two, not four balanced budgets. But there is something else here that has been eating away at me. More and more the right is trying to make it […]
This is a truly disgusting story: Last night, I got the most chilling phone call I have ever received. It was Jake Burris, Ken Aden’s campaign manager. Last night, Jake and his four kids had come back to their Russellville home. As they were getting out of the car, one of his children discovered their […]
Iowa is now the Florida of primaries: In a stunning turn of events, Rick Santorum now appears to have won the Iowa caucuses, though the state’s Republican Party says there are too many holes in the results for them to ever be able to say for certain. The party, which runs the caucuses, has done […]
This election cycle has really exposed a problem the GOP has with dealing with the media. We started seeing it with Herman Cain, who is the only one to blame for his own campaign’s demise with his handling of the questions of inappropriate conduce while head of the National Restaurant Association. Instead of coming clean, […]
There has been a lot of questions about Mitt Romney’s income taxes and we finally got one answer: Q: What’s the effective rate you’ve been paying? ROMNEY: What’s the effective rate I’ve been paying? It’s probably closer to the 15 percent rate than anything, because my last ten years, I’ve, my income comes overwhelmingly from […]
As I have been saying for months now, the GOP’s biggest problem this year is going to be energizing the base. It seems like that problem is now starting to show: A new national poll from CNN shows two conflicting points of data. First, President Barack Obama remains vulnerable in a match-up with former Massachusetts […]
Blogging over at the Plumline, Jonathan Bernstein brings up a very interesting question: As Pema Levy reports in a nice item, the message among neutral Republicans over the weekend was simple: It’s time to shut down GOP WH 2012 before somebody gets hurt – in particular, the “somebody” being the very likely but ever-vulnerable Republican […]
Now this is really interesting: Wouldn’t it be great if a Republican presidential candidate could just buy the support of just about every major conservative talk show host in America? Well, it may not be as far-fetched as you may think. Clear Channel owns more radio stations (850) than anyone else in the United States. […]
This is ridiculous: Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel (man-DEHL’) has emerged this year as one of the most ambitious young politicians in a closely divided battleground state. The Republican has aggressively worked the fundraising and speaking circuit to amass more than $3.8 million this year in his bid to unseat Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown. At […]
I guess Santorum’s strong showing in Iowa helped them decide: After a two day meeting at a ranch outside of Houston a group of 150 Christian leaders, business leaders and conservative activists have coalesced behind Rick Santorum. Friday night surrogates from every GOP campaign (except that of Jon Huntsman) attended the meeting and made the […]