With the Super Committee dead, 2012 is likely to see a fight over the defense cuts set to take place starting in 2013.

You really can’t make things like this up: “At 1:00 PM, the Vice President will attend a meeting of the Government Accountability and Transparency Board in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. At 2:30 PM, the Vice President will meet with representatives of the National Sheriffs’ Association in the Roosevelt Room. These meetings are closed press.“ [...]

Another bad meme from the GOP.

For some reason, the head of the UT College Republicans thought it was a good idea to joke about Presidential assassination on Twitter Hours after Pennsylvania State Police arrested a 21-year-old Idaho man for allegedly firing a semi-automatic rifle at the White House, the top student official for the College Republicans at the University of [...]

More revelations regarding the relationship between Solyndra and the Obama White House.

When it comes to the issue likely to be at the forefront of voters minds next November, President Obama isn’t doing well at all: President Obama’s ratings on the the most important issue for his re-election — the economy — have posted the weakest showing of his presidency, according to a poll released Friday by [...]

Despite the seeming odds against him, the Electoral College map is very favorable for President Obama.

It’s time for another round of speculation about Iran and its nuclear program.

The San Francisco Chronicle isn’t very happy with the press restrictions in place during the President’s most recent West Cost swing: The Obama White House’s restrictions on media access to its fundraising events makes a mockery of its claim to be the most transparent administration in history. If anything, there is almost a Nixonian quality [...]

On the day his campaign is set to make a major economic roll out, Rick Perry went the birther route again.

Rick Perry’s comments during an interview with Parade Magazine have raised some questions about where he stands on the issue of the President’s birth certificate: Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he is not sure President Obama was born in the United States, but it should not matter because he was elected president and the issue [...]

President Obama is being attacking from the right for following through on a policy decision made by his Republican predecessor.

As James Joyner noted, earlier today President Obama announced that by the end of December all American troops would be removed from Iraq, with the exception of those Marines necessary to defend the American embassy in Baghdad. The media is characterizing this as the end of the Iraq War but, as Spencer Ackerman notes, that [...]

Barack Obama uses a teleprompter. This is not a big deal.

Gaddafi is dead, but it was still wrong for the United States to get involved in Libya.

Former Virginia Democratic Party head Paul Goldman and George Mason Professor Mark Rozell make an argument for an Obama-Clinton ticket in 2012, but not the Clinton you’re probably thinking of: Washington’s insiders say some Democrats involved in the 2012 campaign may want to drop loyal Vice President Joe Biden for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. [...]

A Virginia television station is reporting a rather improbable theft: NBC12 has uncovered one of those stories that makes you think: “How in the world does that happen?!”  A truck filled with President Obama’s podiums and audio equipment was stolen in Henrico just days before his visit to Chesterfield. We confirmed an investigation with the [...]

They call him “Generic Republican,” but you could also call him The Unknown Candidate. Whatever you call him, though, he’s beating the President of the United States in a head-to-head matchup:  U.S. registered voters, by 46% to 38%, continue to say they are more likely to vote for the Republican presidential candidate than for Barack [...]

President Obama’s poll numbers are sinking, but they’re still not low enough to make people think he’s worse than his predecessor: As low as President Barack Obama’s approval ratings might sink, Americans say he’s at least better than former President George W. Bush, a new poll shows. In fact, 48 percent of respondents said that [...]

The Third Quarter was quite successful for President Obama and the Democratic Party: The Obama Campaign and Democratic National Committee raised a combined nearly $70 million for the 2012 campaign from July through September, the groups reported today in an email to supporters. Obama for America brought in $42.8 million, while the DNC banked $23.7 [...]

Obama’s Justice Department continues its crackdown on medical marijuana, despite campaign promises to the contrary.

Not surprisingly, the “Super Committee” to deal with the deficit isn’t making much progress.

We’re learning more about the Obama Administration’s decision to kill Anwar al-Awlaki

Sarah Palin is out for 2012

The partisan crowds like President Obama’s populist rhetoric but it seems ill-suited for his re-election strategy.

In an interview, President Obama says that Americans are worse off than they were four years ago.

This exchange between White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and ABC’s Jake Tapper lays out pretty starkly the Administration’s position on the President’s authority to order assassinations of American citizens without due process of law: video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player There’s something fundamentally wrong here, I think. Even if you accept the idea that al-Awlaki [...]

“Straight talkers” like Chris Christie make for lousy leaders.

Well, they’re going to be hard-placed to blame this one on Republican obstructionism: Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said, at the moment, Democrats in Congress don’t have the votes to pass President Obama’s jobs bill, but Durbin added that that situation would change. “Not at the moment, I don’t think we do, but, uh, [...]

If the 2012 elections are going to be decided by voter turnout, then the Democratic base is going to need some prodding: In thinking about the 2012 presidential election, 45% of Democrats and independents who lean Democratic say they are more enthusiastic about voting than usual, while nearly as many, 44%, are less enthusiastic. This [...]

The health care battle is formally joined in the Supreme Court.

Sarah Palin apparently thinks having an actual job would be too confining.

More news about Solyndra and the apparent favoritism it received at the behest of the Obama Administration: Solyndra LLC had such steep financial problems in late 2010 that the company violated terms of its loan-guarantee agreement with the Department of Energy and technically defaulted on its $535 million loan, according to people familiar with the [...]

Neither political party is resonating with the public right now, and neither is acting in the manner the public would like.

Speaking yesterday at the Republican P5 gathering in Florida, Governor Rick Scott decided it would be funny to tell a joke about President Obama using teleprompters: The first-term Gov. Scott (not known for his public speaking skills, to be sure) started reading his speech off a set of prompters at the podium. As he started [...]

A new Economist/YouGov poll gives the President his lowest job approval numbers to date: This week’s Economist/YouGov Poll is full of bad news for President Barack Obama. The frontrunners for the GOP nomination in the 2012 contest are pulling very close to him in head-to-head matchups, and his approval rating has been at or near [...]

During last night’s debate, Mitt Romney repeated a charge that has become part of the conservative zeitgeist. But is it true?

President Obama would like to sell you something.

Based on the numbers, Barack Obama is an immigration hawk.

When she made her way to Ames, Iowa in advance of the Iowa Straw Poll, Sarah Palin seemed to make it clear that she recognized that she’d have to announce her intentions by the end of this month: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said her decision on whether to run for president is due [...]

President Obama explained his position on the Palestinian statehood resolution today, but one wonders if anyone listened.

Rick Perry’s speech criticizing the President’s policies in the Middle East raised more questions than it answered.

The public supports the Presidents tax plans, but will that matter on Election Day?

Executives of bankrupt Solyndra, recipient of a half billion dollars government guaranteed loan in 2009, will refuse to testify pursuant to the 5th Amendment at a Congressional hearing on Friday: Solyndra LLC’s chief executive and chief financial officer will invoke their Fifth Amendment rights and decline to answer any questions put to them at a [...]

The Atlantic’s Daniel Indiviglio tries to figure out how much money this “Buffett rule” would bring in to Federal coffers. As Indiviglio notes, it’s not easy to figure out because the Administration has been, perhaps deliberately, vague about what they mean by this rule. Nonetheless, as he notes, the President did say it would create [...]

President Obaama’s poll numbers are lower than where Reagan and Clinton were at this point, but not by very much.

As a supplement to my post from yesterday, the Associated Press is out with some fact checking on the premise of the so-called “Buffett Rule,” and found no support for the idea that secretaries are paying a higher tax rate than the mega-rich bosses: In his White House address Monday, Obama called on Congress to [...]

Over at Carpe Diem, University of Michigan Economics Professor Mark Perry put together this chart: All that comes from IRS data, and Perry reaches several important questions: 1. The U.S. federal income tax system is highly progressive (as it’s intended to be, and not regressive as Buffett wants us to believe from his “analysis” of [...]

Let’s take a look at the spending cuts in the plan the President’s plan. First, from The New York Times: Mr. Obama is seeking $1.5 trillion in tax increases, primarily on the wealthy and corporations, through a combination of letting Bush-era income tax cuts expire on wealthier taxpayers, limiting the value of deductions taken by [...]

When someone calls Obama a Marxist, they’re exposing their own ignorance.