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Karl Rove ‘offended’ by Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler ad

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Rachel Weiner - Feb. 07 (News Report) - A Chrysler ad aired during the Super Bowl Sunday night has inspired ire among some Republicans and admiration among some Democrats — with both sides seeing a political message that boosts President Obama.

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Top three revel in their New Hampshire primary victories

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Robin Abcarian, Seema Mehta - Jan. 11 (News Report) - 'We made history!' winner Mitt Romney tells his cheering crowd. Second-place Ron Paul touts a win 'for the cause of liberty,' while Jon Huntsman, in third, strikes a jubilant pose.

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Warren Buffett Ready to Take Republicans' Tax Challenge

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Rana Foroohar - Jan. 11 (News) - Buffett has pledged to match 1 for 1 all such voluntary contributions made by Republican members of Congress. “And I’ll even go 3 for 1 for McConnell,” he says. That could be quite a bill if McConnell takes the challenge; after all, the Senator is worth at least $10 million. As Buffett put it to me, “I’m not worried.”

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Obama: Recess appointment is his "obligation"

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

USA Today - By Aamer Madhani - Jan. 04 (News Report) - In a speech in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Obama made it official that he would install the former Ohio general as the head of the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau through recess appointment and hammered Republicans for blocking Cordray's appointment.

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Bachmann Says She Will Not Continue in the Race

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Sarah Wheaton - Jan. 04 (News Report) - On the morning before Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota said she was counting on a “miracle” to resurrect her faltering campaign. On the morning after, she acknowledged that it was beyond saving.

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Gingrich: Greek cruise meant to provoke his campaign team

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Amy Gardner - Dec. 29 (News Report) - Presidential contender Newt Gingrich said at a stop here on his bus tour across Iowa that he took his wife on a Greek cruise last spring to provoke a confrontation with his campaign team. It worked. Much of his team quit almost immediately upon his return from the vacation, which, coming just days after he officially launched his candidacy, seemed somewhat ill-timed.

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Wary Hispanic voters favor Obama over GOP rivals

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Peter Wallsten - Dec. 28 (News Report) - President Obama holds a wide lead among Hispanic voters when matched against potential Republican challengers, even as Hispanics grow wary of his administration’s stepped-up deportation policies and less supportive of his overall job performance, according to a new poll.

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Lawmaker warns USTR on labor in Trans-Pacific pact

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Yahoo! News - Dec. 15 (News Report) - A Republican lawmaker on Wednesday warned the Obama administration that Congress could reject a proposed Asia-Pacific trade deal if the White House pushes too hard on language to protect workers rights.

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Plenty to question in GOP debate

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Dec. 14 (Fact Check) - When Michele Bachmann accused Newt Gingrich in the latest Republican debate of once supporting a cap-and-trade program to curb global warming, he huffily denied it and told her she should get her facts straight. Actually, she did. As recently as 2007, Gingrich "strongly supported" the idea. Viewers did not always get the straight goods Saturday night from other presidential hopefuls, either. Mitt Romney erred in saying Barack Obama was the only president to cut Medicare. If Rick Perry had been a betting man, he probably would have lost the $10,000 wager Romney wanted to make with him to settle competing assertions. A look at how some of the claims from the Saturday night debate and Sunday talk show aftermath compare with the facts:

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Obama Strikes Populist Chord With Speech on GOP Turf

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By A. G. Sulzberger - Dec. 07 (News Report) - Laying out a populist argument for his re-election next year, President Obama ventured into the conservative heartland on Tuesday to deliver his most pointed appeal yet for a strong governmental role through tax and regulation to level the economic playing field.

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Why Mitt Romney needs a long primary fight

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Chris Cillizza - Dec. 06 (News Report) - The rapid rise of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to frontrunner status in Iowa and South Carolinabadly complicates Mitt Romney’s hopes of quickly wrapping up the Republican presidential nomination and raises the possibility that the former Massachusetts governor only path to victory is a war of attrition.

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Building a Better Mitt Romney-Bot

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Robert Draper - Nov. 30 (Special Report) - His camp doesn’t need to turn their guy into someone you’d have a beer with. They just need to eliminate the bugs in the machine.

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Gingrich Gave Push to Clients, Not Just Ideas

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By MIKE McINTIRE, JIM RUTENBERG - Nov. 30 (News Report) - Newt Gingrich is adamant that he is not a lobbyist, but in the eight years since he started his health care consultancy, he has made millions of dollars while helping companies promote their services.

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Rick Santorum: Commenters weigh in on his campaign with a seriously ill daughter at home

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Karen Tumulty - Nov. 30 (News Report) - A sick child-- and especially an incurably sick child--is every parent’s worst nightmare. So we all are forced to picture ourselves in Melinda Henneberger’s incredibly moving story of Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum’s (R) family, and how it is dealing with the illness of his 3-year-old daughter Bella while he runs a longshot campaign for president.

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Fact checking the CNN national security debate

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Nov. 23 (Fact Check) - Hello, “Steve Gates.” While Rep. Michele Bachmann may have trouble living that blooper down, here are some of the more dubious assertions and facts we heard at the fascinating CNN debate Tuesday night, organized with the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation. We examine 15 statements in all, and as is our practice, may come back to do a deeper look in the coming days.

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Republican Threatens to Quit Labor Board

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Steven Greenhouse - Nov. 23 (News Report) - Brian E. Hayes has threatened to resign in order to block a plan by the National Labor Relations Board to adopt rules that would speed up unionization elections.

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GOP debate: Newt Gingrich beats back immigration critique

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Alexander Burns - Nov. 23 (News Report) - Ascendant Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich delivered an unapologetic defense of his views on immigration Tuesday night, declaring in a foreign policy debate that the GOP should not adopt a platform on immigration that “destroys families th

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The Pledge: Grover Norquist's hold on the GOP

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

60 Minutes - By Steve Kroft - Nov. 22 (Special Report) - As head of Americans for Tax Reform since 1986, Grover Norquist has transformed a single issue - preventing tax hikes - into one of the key platforms of the Republican Party. As Steve Kroft reports, his biggest coup was getting more than 270 members of Congress, and nearly all of the 2012 Republican presidential primary candidates, to sign a pledge promising never to vote to raise taxes. But some opponents say the pledge may be hindering a solution to America's debt crisis.

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Panel Fails to Reach Deal on Plan for Deficit Reduction

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jennifer Steinhauer, Robert Pear, Helene Cooper - Nov. 22 (News Report) - After one last bout of fitful but futile talks, Congressional negotiators conceded the obvious: that the joint Congressional committee charged with drafting a deficit reduction package would miss its deadline this week. But they did not quite give up the ghost of a chance that a solution might be found later.

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Gingrich Said to Be Paid at Least $1.6 Million by Freddie Mac

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Bloomberg - By Clea Benson, Dawn Kopecki - Nov. 16 (News Report) - Newt Gingrich made between $1.6 million and $1.8 million in consulting fees from two contracts with mortgage company Freddie Mac, according to two people familiar with the arrangement. The total amount is significantly larger than the $300,000 payment from Freddie Mac that Gingrich was asked about during a Republican presidential debate on Nov. 9 sponsored by CNBC, and more than was disclosed in the middle of congressional investigations into the housing industry collapse.

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Fact checking the South Carolina debate

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Nov. 14 (Fact Check) - The GOP candidates met for a debate Saturday night sponsored by CBS and the National Journal, with a specific focus on foreign policy and national security. In foreign policy, there is often no right or wrong answer; the results of a policy are often ambiguous and its effectiveness is usually only determined by history. Still, there were a number of statements made by the candidates that were factually challenged, exaggerated or lacking context. Read full article ...

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How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Rolling Stone - By Tim Dickinson - Nov. 09 (News Analysis) - The nation is still recovering from a crushing recession that sent unemployment hovering above nine percent for two straight years. The president, mindful of soaring deficits, is pushing bold action to shore up the nation's balance sheet.

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Five things to watch for in GOP debate

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Jim Acosta - Nov. 09 (News Analysis) - It might be best to call this "one thing to watch" at Wednesday night's debate in the suburbs of Detroit. Herman Cain's rivals have only begun to comment on the sexual harassment allegations facing the conservative businessman. Will they go there? Will he go there? In an interview with ABC News on Tuesday, Mitt Romney called the accusations "disturbing," meriting a "serious" response. Cain's less-than-serious handling of the matter on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on Monday night gave the other candidates an opening.

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Senate Democrats offer $3 trillion debt deal

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Lori Montgomery - Oct. 26 (News Report) - Senate Democrats are urging the debt-reduction supercommittee to pursue a far-reaching agreement to slice $3 trillion from the federal budget over the next decade through significant cuts to federal health programs, including Medicare, and as much as $1.3 trillion in new taxes.

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Cain's tax cut would give thousands back to the rich

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Steven Thomma - Oct. 18 (News) - Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan would give every American making more than $1 million an average tax cut of $455,000, according to a new independent analysis. All Americans with incomes above $200,000 would get tax cuts under the Republican presidential candidate’s dramatic proposal, according to the analysis by the Tax Policy Center, a joint effort of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution, both respected center-left policy-research centers. At the same time, those with incomes below $200,000 _ 84 percent of taxpayers _ would see their taxes increase under the Cain plan, according to the analysis, which is the first to look at precisely what would happen to different incomes under the proposal.

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