Restore Our Future, a super political action committee backing Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, will change the source of a $400,000 donation on Federal Election Commission reports, a committee spokeswoman said. The March 1 contribution, attributed in FEC reports to Seaspray Partners LLC, will be listed instead as being from Gerald and Darlene Jordan of Palm Beach, Florida, [...]
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One Saturday last fall, President Obama interrupted a White House strategy meeting to raise an issue not on the agenda. He declared, aides recalled, that the administration needed to more aggressively use executive power to govern in the face of Congressional obstructionism. “We had been attempting to highlight the inability of Congress to do anything,” [...]
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Is the tea party breaking up? After playing a dominant role in a number of elections in 2010 — Christine O’Donnell, anyone? — there is growing evidence that the power (and visibility) of the movement has faded somewhat of late. To wit: ●Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, the establishment candidate, secured the Republican presidential nomination after the [...]
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Speaking at the New York City Green Festival April 21st, Van Jones (Obama’s former Green Jobs Czar) claimed the right is waging an open campaign and willing to kill children to weaken the EPA to create a new job.
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With Mitt Romney now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, the chatter has increasingly turned to the man or woman the former Massachusetts governor will tap to run alongside him during the general election. Romney will campaign Monday in Pennsylvania with another senator and possible vice presidential pick, Marco Rubio of Florida. Rubio was elected in [...]
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It’s really interesting when I talk to Obama supporters who are soft-core, meaning they are open to discussion and not completely closed-minded or ideologically set in granite. There are several themes that constantly recur in such conversations, though one rarely or never sees these points in print. Of course, these people get their information from [...]
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One of the biggest political stories of 2008 was the rise of the Millennials as an electoral force. As “Obamamania” swept the nation, college students across the country abandoned their usual political apathy and volunteered for the Obama campaign in droves, canvassing, phone banking and harnessing the power of social media. This youth enthusiasm paid [...]
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After a three-week lull, the Republican presidential primaries resume on Tuesday when five Northeastern states — Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island — have their say. With Rick Santorum having dropped out of the race earlier in the month, Mitt Romney has an overwhelming lead in the delegate count, but both Newt Gingrich [...]
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While much of the political world obsesses over Twitter fights and Seamus the dog, Barack Obama has set himself up for a high-profile defeat on one of the most important issues of the campaign. The president has put his feet in cement in opposition to the Keystone oil pipeline. But on Capitol Hill, more and [...]
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The Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to extend new tax cuts to businesses with fewer than 500 employees, a move designed to contrast with a Democratic push this week to impose higher taxes on those making more than $1 million a year. The measure was approved on a largely party-line vote of 235 to 173, with both sides [...]
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Capitol Hill Republicans have a brand new super PAC in their corner. The only problem: None of them want it — or trust it. The super PAC in question is the Coalition of Americans for Political Equality PAC, a mysterious Washington-based group better known as CAPE PAC whose stated mission is “restoring conservative values in [...]
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Republicans have been saying for months that many voters will be inspired to vote for Mitt Romney because they dislike Barack Obama so much. But a collection of major polls shows both have high “unfavorable” ratings and Romney is the one whose “unfavorable” rating is bigger than his “unfavorable.” “The more conservative Republicans are more scared about the prospects [...]
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The Democrats’ decision was revealed in a series of surprise announcements by Sen. Kent Conrad, the chairman of the Democratic-controlled budget committee. In several statements Tuesday afternoon, Conrad announced that he would not try to pass a budget, that he would introduce his own draft budget for the committee to consider, and finally, that he [...]
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Republican voters in Arizona on Tuesday chose Jesse Kelly to face off against Ron Barber in the special election to fill the congressional seat vacated by Gabrielle Giffords. Mr. Kelly, a Tucson businessman who nearly won a bid in 2010 to unseat Ms. Giffords, garnered nearly 36 percent of the vote to emerge from a field of four [...]
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Governor Christie’s budget and tax policies, his recent trip to the Middle East and longtime support of Mitt Romney can all make national news these days. But so can his weight and even reports of sleeping at a recent rock concert. And some of Christie’s prior decisions and statements are getting a much closer look [...]
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