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.
Disgraced former Michigan Assistant Attorney General says he’s the victim of the “homosexual activist agenda.”
The Library of Congress has made available online a massive new trove of audio recordings — music, speeches, humor readings — spanning decades of aural history.
A 2008 state co-chair for Mitt Romney, now-SC Gov. Nikki Haley (R) threads the needle on what Romney needs to do to assure skeptical conservatives on “Romneycare.”
Democrats are licking their electoral chops, thinking they may be able to pick up a very Republican House seat in New York state. And it’s bringing back memories of the 2009 special election where Dems managed to win a seat in NY-23 after a brutal slugfest between the moderate Republican, Dede Scozzafava, and Tea Partier, Doug Hoffman.
Now you’ve got a conventional Republican, a conventional Democrat and a Tea Partier who’s run previously as both a Republican and a Democrat who’s pulling about a quarter of the vote.
News came out earlier today that Kark Rove-backed American Crossroads was pouring $350,000 in ads for just this week — with more probably to come. And now the DCCC is responding with a $250,000 media buy of their own.
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) throws a big jug of cold water on any plans for more means testing of Medicare.
Sen. Feinstein (D-CA) says she won’t be relying on US intelligence officials alone in finding answers to what the Pakistani government may have known about bin Laden’s whereabouts. She’s tempering yesterday’s remarks questioning the entire US relationship with Pakistan. But she plans on holding her own closed-door, classified hearings into the matter.
“I’m not questioning the aid. It’s just if [bin Laden] lived there for five or six years, I don’t understand them not knowing,” she told TPM. “We all know what it’s like to live in a neighborhood — and that was a big compound in city that was also home to a military academy.”