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Romney: Oh, you’d better believe I support automatic increases to the minimum wage
Terrific.
Alternate headline: “Mitt Romney is concerned about the very poor.” You make the call. Is this (a) a pander aimed at doing damage control for this morning’s gaffe heard ’round the political world, (b) an early sign of Romney’s inevitable shift towards the center in the general election, or (c) a way to inoculate himself [...]
Jim Moran: Allen West isn’t representative of African-Americans
"Mr. West is ... not representative of the African-American community or of the Republican Party."
Via Mediaite, does Moran mean West isn’t representative of blacks generally or that he wasn’t representative of them specifically when he said Obama, Pelosi, and Reid should “get the hell out of the United States of America”? He’s on the right network and the right show for cheap racial demagoguery aimed at a minority conservative, [...]
Ten Things You Should Do If You’re An “Anybody But Mitt” Republican
And one you shouldn't.
Let’s say, hypothetically, for just a moment here, that some of the pundits are right – that Romney’s landslide victory in Florida means he really might be inevitable. I’ve heard more than a few of you Newt and Paul supporters out there; “If Romney wins, I’m staying home on election day”. While I’m not especially [...]
Zoo wants chimpanzee commercials pulled from the Super Bowl
They're endangered, people!
Eh, what would the Super Bowl be without a little ad controversy? Allah has zeroed in on the Matthew-Broderick-channels-Ferris-Bueller CRV commercial, but that’s not the only attention-grabbing advertisement slated for coveted Super Bowl space. A commercial that features suit-and-tie-wearing chimpanzees has irked an assistant director of Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo. He wants that ad pulled: [...]
Jim DeMint: Why not tack support for term limits on to no-insider-trading bill?
If only ...
Monday, the Senate began to debate the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, and the House takes up its version of the legislation later this month. The bill would do exactly what its title implies: It would make insider trading of stocks and securities by members of Congress, their spouses and their staff members expressly [...]
Medicare Advantage enrollment rises 10 percent
Private competition works.
From this time last year, enrollment in Medicare Advantage rose 10 percent and premiums have fallen 7 percent, the Department of Health and Human Services announced today: Enrollment has risen to 12.8 million in 2012, while average premiums have fallen 7.2% to $31.54, confirming loose projections from September that enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans would [...]
Video: Obama releases new housing program
Buying votes?
We got a big hint of this new proposal from Barack Obama in last week’s State of the Union message, and now Obama has rolled out his proposal to accelerate mortgage refinancing to bolster the housing market. However, it has at least one poison pill that will make it nearly impossible to get Congress to [...]
The Ed Morrissey Show: Scott Rasmussen, Katie Pavlich
3 pm ET!
Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), I’ll welcome Scott Rasmussen to TEMS for the first time to discuss his new book The People’s Money: How Voters Will Balance the Budget and Eliminate the Federal Debt, a look at how an empowered grassroots could accomplish what an entrenched political class cannot. In the [...]
Another ad smartly attacks the president on Solyndra
"Infused with politics at every level."
While Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich savage each other and just as Rick Santorum releases his own hard-hitting ad against Gingrich, Karl Rove’s nonprofit Crossroads GPS keeps the focus on Barack Obama with a $500,000 weeklong ad buy on national cable. As Ed wrote when the group released its first ad, anybody interested to defeat [...]
Is Rick Santorum the logical conservative alternative?
Plus his new ad.
Last night, a number of people on Twitter pointed out that Mitt Romney didn’t get a majority of the Florida primary vote and claimed that combining the percentages of all other competitors showed that he could still be stopped. I pointed out earlier that this assumes everyone wouldn’t vote for Romney as a second choice, [...]
Video: How Barack Obama and other big government statists really bankroll their reelections
The Vote Pump.
Simply put, this is one of the best videos I’ve watched in quite some time. If you think Barack Obama will spend just $1 billion on his reelection effort, think again. This president — like the president before him and the president before him — has at his disposal “The Vote Pump,” the elegant but [...]
How did Mitt Romney fare with millennials in Florida?
Eh.
Ron Paul might have a reputation for appealing to youth voters, but, in Florida, Mitt Romney dominated among millennials no less than among the general electorate. According to preliminary analysis by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, Romney captured 41 percent of voters under the age of 30 to finish [...]
Who’s to “blame” for polarization?
Plus, the myth of Internet echo chambers.
Earlier this week, the Washington Post ran an article with the curious headline, “Obama: The most polarizing President. Ever.” While there is no doubt that Obama has been a polarizing figure, the certainty of that statement caught my eye. As it turns out, the article itself doesn’t make that claim — it only says that [...]
Komen Foundation cuts off Planned Parenthood — permanently?
Who reacts predictably.
Give the ultimate credit for this decision to Lila Rose and Live Action. While the Susan G. Komen Foundation made the decision to halt grants to Planned Parenthood because of Congressional investigations into its activities — especially in defying legal requirements to report child abuse — those investigations got started because of the investigative work [...]
Obama money advantage disappearing
So are his state approval ratings.
For a year, Republicans have worried about having to face a billion-dollar Re-Elect Obama machine in the fall. Most have just assumed that whoever wins the GOP nomination will have to contend with being outfunded and outgunned, even apart from the usual Democratic advantages of the news media and entertainment industry. National Journal punctures this [...]
Video: Romney “not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net”
Oops.
Earlier today, I said that only Mitt Romney could derail Mitt Romney this month. Did my prediction come true already? The media and Romney detractors have jumped all over this statement to CNN in which Romney says that he is “not concerned about the very poor,” but that slice of Romney’s statement is entirely misleading [...]
Arizona next to tackle PEU reform?
Much tougher than Wisconsin's approach.
If you liked the show in Madison a year ago, start packing your bags for Phoenix — and be sure to get a long-term hotel room. Arizona will follow Wisconsin’s lead in public-employee union reform as a means to tackle their pension overhang and budget issues, but Republicans in control of the legislature plan to [...]
It’s not over, but …
Driver's seat.
Did Mitt Romney resuscitate his “inevitability” argument with his win last night? The subtext of his victory speech seemed to make that claim, Reid Epstein argues at Politico: Mitt Romney didn’t just claim victory Tuesday night — he sent a clear message to Newt Gingrich: The nomination is mine. The former Massachusetts governor scored a [...]
Obamateurism of the Day
Georgia off his mind.
Remember the concept of “smart power”? That was Barack Obama’s promise, along with strengthening our friendships with allies abroad. It’s generally helpful for both approaches to get the names straight: President Obama mistakenly referred to the nation of Georgia as “Russia” after a bilateral meeting with the Georgian president — an unfortunate slip-up, given that [...]
Video: Gingrich’s kinda sorta concession speech
"I pledge to you my life, my fortune, my sacred honor."
Yeah, I’m thinking that a guy who’s quoting the Declaration of Independence in his final lines probably isn’t thinking of conceding the race anytime soon. BuzzFeed has a copy of his campaign’s official post-election talking points, but you don’t really need those to grasp the takeaway here. One line: “It is now clear that this [...]
