Over recent months, as Congress has shown itself unable to act to jolt the national economy back to life, there’s been a big fight between Dems and a decent cross-section of economists on the one hand and Republicans and hard-money advocates on the other over whether the Fed should juice the economy with more ‘quantitative easing’ or just do nothing.
This you’ll remember is what Rick Perry said Ben Bernanke might get a horse-whuppin’ for doing if he ever came down to Texas. Well, even Goldman Sachs is telling the Fed: Dudes, just bring back the growth already!
From a dominating lead a few weeks ago, Rick Perry is down to 2.9 percent support in Florida.
Sure you’ve seen Herman Cain’s instant-classic Pizza-fied rendition of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’. But who’s that guy in the audience giving Cain a rousing round of applause: Sen. Ben Nelson!
Local police have released the mugshots of the gang of Talibanized Amish men who were rampaging through Holmes County breaking into houses and ritually chopping off the beards and hair of the Amish unbelievers.
With all that campaign cash rolling in it seems Herman Cain is pumping some of that money back into Herman Cain Inc. Our reporters have the story.
Mitt Romney remains the man to beat in the GOP nomination process. But it could take him a long time to wrap things up. Republicans have moved a significant number of their primaries from winner-take-all to proportional delegate allocation. And for a candidate who seems to have a hard ceiling in the 20s and 30s that could mean a long process to lock up the nomination.
Birther who tried to conduct an armed ‘citizen’s arrest’ of a local grand jury foreman over Obama’s birth certificate goes on trial in Tennessee.
The latest FEC filings are rolling in and it’s starting to give us a picture of how much money Democratic campaigns have allegedly lost at the hands of accused embezzler Kinde Durkee. For example, Dianne Feinstein: $4.7 million.
Dems in tug-of-war over what to make of, whether to sidle up to Occupy Wall Street.