Well, she'd beat Pataki in a two-person race...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Apparently, George Pataki may try to fight Jon Hunstman for fifth place in a few blue state primaries. I await the 9,000 word Matt Bai thumbsucker in which he explains.
I've said this before, but one thing always worth nothing about the capital gains tax cut scam is that if you were a true believer in the power of the.
Rebecca Traister has a terrific piece about counterfactuals and the 2008 primary. Amanda has some comments as well. Traister does a good job of outlining the where there may have differences -- Obama's coatails (which were likely decisive in the Hagan and Franken Senate races)...
I think I agree with Paul's interpretation of the clip of Perry babbling nonsense about sex ed. While I agree in general that Perry isn't very bright, I think in.
If the alternative was trying to defend a wide variety of crackpot views, I'd eat popovers and run too.
Matt has some useful additions to my post yesterday on presidential power. On the second term, one could add the the 2005 bankruptcy "reform," which again involved legislation supported by powerful interests, an issue that doesn't divide the Republican coalition, and key support from parasite-state...
I have a column up at the Prospect about the decision of the BART transit police to -- in the ignoble tradition of the Alien and Sedition Acts -- cut.
I have more to say about what the presidency and what it can and can't accomplish based on Jeff Shessol's terrific book on FDR and the court-packing fight. But.
One of the few specific health care reforms Republicans are willing to endorse are caps on lawsuit damages. Needless to say, Rick Perry has been touting the caps in Texas. The problem is that while they prevent some malpractice victims from being adequately compensated, they...
Shorter Rich Lowry: The primary reason liberals don't like a politician who argues that almost the entire modern federal state is unconstitutional, is a radical social reactionary, and blithely covers.
Shorter Rick Perry: "The Fed taking steps to help the economy would be so treasonous I might have to advocate secession again." It might seem obvious that this man cannot.