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Is Newt Gingrich a Lobbyist?
Tweet Share on Facebook November 30, 2011 Comment (26)Is Newt Gingrich a lobbyist? That depends, to borrow the phrase from Gingrich’s old sparring partner, on what the definition of “lobbyist” is.
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Herman Cain Affair Allegations Are Irrelevant
Tweet Share on Facebook November 29, 2011 Comment (16)Wow, Herman Cain and I actually agree on something. Well, his lawyer and I actually agree on something anyway.
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Birther Outbreak in New Hampshire
Tweet Share on Facebook November 23, 2011 Comment (53)Would someone please explain to the birthers that Halloween has come and gone? Like a bunch of worse for wear zombies, the birthers keep shuffling along, except they’re now more pathetic than—well OK, they were always pretty pathetic.
The latest birther flare-up comes in New Hampshire, where chief birther Orly Taitz and some local Republicans last weekend petitioned the board of elections to prevent President Obama from being on next year’s presidential primary ballot on the grounds that he’s not a citizen and thus not qualified to be president.
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Good News, GOP, Americans Blame Both Sides for Super Committee Flop
Tweet Share on Facebook November 23, 2011 Comment (6)Gallup brings happy news for Republicans in the form of a poll showing that a majority (55 percent) of Americans blame both parties equally for the failure of the so-called super committee to reach a budget deal.
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The Upside Down 2012 Politics of the Economy and the Deficit
Tweet Share on Facebook November 23, 2011 Comment (2)The politics surrounding the “super committee” and the economy generally have taken on a curious upside down quality recently.
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No Amount of Obama 'Leadership' Could've Saved the Super Committee
Tweet Share on Facebook November 22, 2011 Comment (7)Despite what you might have heard, Barack Obama is not to blame for the failure of the so-called “super committee” to reach a debt deal. That the president should have exercised greater “leadership” has become a standard talking point both on the right and among the “everyone’s to blame for a broken system” commentariat. But that line of criticism simply isn’t connected to political reality.
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No, Both Sides Aren't to Blame for the 'Super Committee' Failure
Tweet Share on Facebook November 22, 2011 Comment (15)You don’t have to buy the trite, predictable cop-out storyline that the so-called super committee’s failure to reach a deficit-cutting agreement is equally attributable to intransigence on the part of both Republicans and Democrats. Thanks to the wonders of modern journalism and the Internet, you can decide for yourself whether one side was willing to budge more than the other.
Spoiler alert: In keeping with recent political history, Democrats were much more willing to budge.
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Why Does Newt Gingrich Think America Is a 'Nightmare'?
Tweet Share on Facebook November 20, 2011 Comment (16)Steve Benen notes the line from Saturday night’s GOP debate which struck him as most important:
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Why Newt Gingrich Is Surging Now
Tweet Share on Facebook November 18, 2011 Comment (13)The Atlantic’s Molly Ball has a sharp piece on the surge of Newt-mentum that has engulfed the Republican presidential primaries. Going beyond the now standard explanation of a conservative electorate’s wandering eye searching restlessly for an alternative to Mitt Romney, Ball gives order to that quest:
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The Incoherence of the 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement
Tweet Share on Facebook November 17, 2011 Comment (12)My brother lives near the Stock Exchange and ground zero of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement. He sends along this note about today’s “day of action”:
