There’s one big fact about the Obama presidency: the US economy has sucked all through it. Who you blame for that is the key to the American political debate. But the reality of the suck is the baseline. The President’s approval on the economy has trended down over the course of the last three years. Read More
Did Gov. Brewer set the President up? I’m not sure. But I do think she wanted to get in his face. TPM Reader JS has another take.
Consider the possibility that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s airport spat with President Obama was anything but ad hoc and instead a cunningly orchestrated – and stunningly effective – tactic to neutralize the President’s message of the day.
As I’ve told people a few times: wake me up when the Romney campaign schedules a press call with a psychiatrist. Then I’ll know things are getting serious. This anti-Newt mailer sent out by the Romney campaign isn’t quite that. But it’s close.