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 how if you don't think "Pawlenty without the conservative orthodoxy" is a winning strategy you...
Author: Scott Lemieux
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.
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 this case the bobbing and weaving isn't a sign of stupidity so much as that...
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.
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 mobile access to passengers to suppress a protest against...the BART police: On the first point,...
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. .
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 up his executions of innocent people is that he's from Texas.
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.
Now that he has made his intention to run official, Rick Perry should be considered one of the two frontrunners for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. His selling points.