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.
Besides how he wins the nomination, one of the biggest challenges facing New Gingrich as he announces his presidential candidacy today is how or whether he’s going to separate himself from Newt Inc., the far-ranging tangle of Newt book, movie, direct mail and Long Twilight Struggle against Islamofascism/American Exceptionalism self-help tutorials which have kept the cash pouring in for Newt for years. And it looks like he’s not having an easy time of it. Just this morning, on the day of his presidential announcement, we got another email sent out to the Human Events email list with Newt hawking his latest books and his latest movie from ‘Gingrich Productions.’
Here’s our report on how Newt plans to keep the Newt Inc. money-machine rippin’ and rollin’ while running for the highest office in the land.