Top lawyer at King & Spalding says the firm’s high-profile reversal on representing House Republicans defending DOMA was all a “unfortunate misunderstanding.”
Newt Gingrich says he realized he either had to run for president or be a “fraud.” Watch.
Today is Mitt Romney’s big speech when he tries to get right with God and the right wing of the Republican Party on the issue of health care reform. That won’t be easy for Mitt to do for reasons everyone already knows. But if you think he’s just carrying around the old baggage of RomneyCare, you might be surprised by how recently Mitt was still touting insurance mandates. Benjy Sarlin traces Romney’s epic journey from leading supporter of mandates to now deeming them unconstitutional.
Mike Huckabee launches cartoon show time machine to save American youth from political correctness and rising skepticism about American exceptionalism. You might think I’m joking but I’m not. Just go watch. Really. You won’t be sorry.
Jon Alter and David Corn are on Hardball right now working their way through Newt Gingrich’s history of ferociously crazy and borderline eliminationist rhetoric going back 30 years. And it’s almost comical: because watching, you can sort of see that they are defeated by the sheer volume of completely clownish and wildly intemperate statements. Where do you possibly start? Read More
Tomorrow a group of Congressional Republicans will introduce a new constitutional amendment allowing states to overrule federal laws.
As Newt throws his hat into the presidential ring, relive some of Newt’s greatest moments from the last thirty years. Heck, forget the last thirty years. Even just the last three years is pretty spectacular.
House Republicans say let’s let bygones be bygones about 2010 and agree there shouldn’t be any political ads about Medicare.
Galleon Group hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam found guilty on all 14 counts.