9:16 PM, Dec 4, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERAt an event in Washington, D.C. this evening, Paul Ryan asked Marco Rubio, "Know any good diners in Iowa or New Hampshire?" The reference, of course, is to the first state to hold a primary contest (the Iowa Caucus) and the first to in the nation to hold a primary election (New Hampshire).
Read more... 3:29 PM, Dec 3, 2012 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSONPresident Obama is enjoying a bit of a post-election honeymoon, but the same cannot be said for his signature legislation.
Read more... 10:01 AM, Nov 28, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERThe White House announces that Governor Mitt Romney will meet tomorrow with President Barack Obama for lunch.
"On Thursday, Governor Romney will have a private lunch at the White House with President Obama in the Private Dining Room," says White House press secretary Jay Carney. "It will be the first opportunity they have had to visit since the election. There will be no press coverage of the meeting."
Read more... 9:41 AM, Nov 28, 2012 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSONAs hard as it is to believe, it’s been only a little over three weeks since Election Day. But there are already plenty of signs that Republicans are learning many of the wrong lessons from that debacle.
Read more... 3:28 PM, Nov 26, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENFormer Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum says he is “open” to another run for president in 2016. Santorum was asked about a possible presidential campaign Monday at THE WEEKLY STANDARD.
“I’m open to it, yeah,” Santorum replied. “I think there’s a fight right now as to what the soul of the Republican party’s going to be and the conservative movement, and we have something to say about that. I think from our battle, we’re not going to leave the field.”
Read more... 6:14 PM, Nov 14, 2012 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSONMitt Romney’s campaign can effectively be boiled down into two parts. One was his first debate appearance, during which he aggressively attacked President Obama’s abysmal record and vigorously explained and defended his own policy proposals.
Read more... 2:13 PM, Nov 14, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERWith the election over, President Barack Obama lavished praise on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at today's press briefing:
Read more... 8:32 AM, Nov 14, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERRobert Robb writes:
Romney's principal issues were the economy and fixing the finances of the federal government. He failed to make a convincing case that he would do a better job with either.
Read more... 2:27 PM, Nov 13, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERIn remarks on the Senate floor, the top Republican in that chamber argues against a mandate for President Barack Obama after his reelection last week.
Read more... 10:45 AM, Nov 12, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENWith the election over, members of the mainstream media are now claiming victory over the conservative media. Jonathan Martin of Politico writes about how insular Republicans were blindsided by the Democrats' success last week and chalks it up to "Kaelism"--recalling the movie critic Pauline Kael's claim in the 1972 landslide election that she only knew one Nixon voter. Here's an excerpt:
Read more... 2:08 PM, Nov 9, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERPresident Barack Obama used his new political politician coming off his reelection win to assert his political position ahead of fiscal negotiations with Congress.
"On Tuesday night, we found out that the majority of Americans agree with my approach," Obama said in a statement delivered this afternoon in the White House. "And that includes Democrats, independents, and a lot of Republicans across the country, as well as independent economists and budget experts."
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