Brian Beutler traces the political and policy fault lines on entitlement programs represented by yesterday’s report from the conservative Mercatus Institute.
As noted this morning, Wednesday April 11th is day one of the general election. But there are things I’m seeing that tell me that Mitt Romney is kicking off the campaign in a telling defensive posture. What I mean is that on various fronts, Romney is kicking off within Obama’s campaign narrative. He’s living in Obama’s world, playing on his turf. Read More
Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY): Mitch McConnell “has a considerable knack for being scrupulously accurate and rarely honest.”
It looks like Labor, the key mover in the recall battle against Wisconsin’s Gov. Walker, is now in an internal battle in the Democratic primary over who will face him.
If Rick Santorum getting out means the general election has arrived, here’s what Mitt Romney and Barack Obama need to do now.
For those inclined to have a negative opinion of George Zimmerman, this was something of a banner day. Already armed, Zimmerman was portrayed by his attorneys as under duress and perhaps mentally unstable, and opening up communications with none other than Sean Hannity, which in this moment of Culture War Crazy is perhaps just slightly better than choosing John Derbyshire to be his new spokesman. Read More
George Zimmerman’s lawyers bow out of the case after he — among other things — stopped talking to them and starting talking to Sean Hannity.
Hillary Clinton meets the “Texts From Hillary” creators who we wrote about yesterday.
George Zimmerman’s (former) attorneys have just held a remarkable press conference in which they announced they would no longer represent the man who shot and killed teenager Trayvon Martin.
They said their client hasn’t answered their calls or text messages since Sunday, and as such have decided they cannot represent a man who does not want their services.
And in the most bizarre bit of the theater — they said their ex-client had reached out to Fox News’ Sean Hannity directly for an off-the-record conversation against their advice.
More as we get it…