Month: December 2011

Things are getting a little weird with conservative radio shock-jock Michael Savage offering Newt Gingrich a million bucks to drop out of the race and Glenn Beck saying that Gingrich is a progressive and the tea partiers are...

Steve Benen flags this from Mitt Romney’s stump speech (emphasis added): “There are people in this room who are informed and who care about this election, who recognize that this is a defining time for...

Brian Beutler is too polite. He accurately describes Speaker Boehner’s harebrained idea for passing an extension of the payroll tax holiday and unemployment benefits, but he treats it too seriously. The bottom line is that...

When sitting presidents get reelected, they frequently get elected resoundingly. In the post-war era, six sitting presidents have been reelected. Four of them won in landslides. In 1956, Eisenhower improved on his 1952 totals...

Let’s just assume for a moment that Newt Gingrich is going to be the Republicans’ nominee for president. Is it a good thing that, when it comes to the Palestinians, he is “at odds with the opinion of all but...