Congressional leaders come up with a deal to prevent a government shutdown. Game-playing continues on payroll tax holiday.
The ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’ grinds its way through committee. So far not a single amendment proposed by critics has passed. Here’s what to expect today.
Vanity Fair just tweeted that Christopher Hitchens has died. 1949-2011.
I find it hard to judge who did well and who didn’t in this debate because it comes against a backdrop of public opinion that is in deep flux. There was a lot of evidence in the polls over the last couple days that support for Newt Gingrich has peaked and is starting to drop. And Mitt Romney’s unwillingness to attack Newt head-on suggests that his team suspects Newt is already in free-fall. If that’s the case maybe Mitt did well by just playing it safe. We’ll find out more on that front soon enough. Read More
10:43 PM: I think Mitt is doing halfway well in fighting back against this fusillade from Chris Wallace. But just how is very hard to figure. Romney has this fugue of words, which together just make no sense at all. Or perhaps it’s that each sentence makes logical sense but together the sentences amount to complete nonsense. And yet at the end of the statement, Mitt decides it all makes sense.
10:51 PM: That was a fascinating moment with the heckler. Did everyone see the Fox News security forces scramble to take him out?
The big moment of the debate so far — when Bachmann put Newt on his heels over Freddie Mac and influence peddling. After the jump … Read More
10:14 PM: Ron Paul in prime primal scream mode. But hard not to make sense arguing against a dingbat like Michele Bachmann.
10:16 PM: Axelrod tweets response to Mitt: “Wonder if bin Laden and demolished AQ leadership agree with Mitt that President Obama is timid on national security?”
10:20 PM: Feel like this debate has kind of gone off the rails for the last 45 minutes or so.
10:21 PM: Newt starts having fun. Opens up the full Newt lexicon. Brings down the house.
10:24 PM: Huntsmanspeak is like the anti-dog whistle in these debates. I’m not even sure the audience can hear him speaking.
10:27 PM: If a Rick Perry speaks coherently in the forest but no one hears, did it happen?
Dems and Republicans clinch payroll tax holiday deal to avert government shutdown.