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Newt Gingrich or Woody Allen: Who’s More Honest About Cheating?

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Mitt Romney: How Long Can He Steer Clear of GOP Craziness?

Filed under: Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, 2012 President, Deep Background, Newt GingrichStaying out of the race (in an official sense) keeps Romney out of the line of fire. It also allows him to maintain his distance from Republican loonine...

Huckabee’s Slide: From Anti-Elite Demagoguery to Right-Wing Buffoonery

Filed under: 2012 President, Deep Background, Field Notes Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

Huckabee’s New Book: Playing for Simple Minds?

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Roger Ailes’ Sex-and-Lies Tale: There Is Something Different About Fox

Filed under: Deep BackgroundA lawsuit alleges that Roger Ailes encouraged publisher Judith Regan to lie to federal investigators about an affair she had had with Bernard Kerik when Kerik was nominated to be the secretary of homeland security. And there...

Government Shutdown: Who Wins — or Loses?

Filed under: Budget, Deep Background, Deficit, Economy, John BoehnerBy forcing a government shutdown over spending, Speaker John Boehner can appease those on the right -- but at the cost of potentially alienating the middle. Permalink | ...

John Boehner’s ‘Naked Lunch’ Moment

Filed under: Deep Background, 2010 Elections, Jobs, Economy, John BoehnerBoehner's lack of sympathy for those who could lose their jobs due to the budget-cutting proposal he's pushing belies his where-are-the-jobs mantra of the previous campaign. ...

Mitt Romney: Adult or Empty Suit?

Filed under: Mitt Romney, 2012 President, Deep Background, 2012 Elections Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

Rumsfeld: MIA on the True Costs of the Iraq War

Filed under: George W. Bush, Deep Background, Iraq Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

Glenn Beck: Should Fox Toss Him Out of the Coop?

Filed under: Deep BackgroundBeck has been pitching conspiracy theories on Fox News Channel for a long time, but his rants that the Egyptian uprisings represent a clandestine Islamic-communist cabal may have gone too far. Permalink | Emai...

Where Are All the GOP 2012 Candidates? Blame Sarah Palin

Filed under: Republicans, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, 2012 President, Deep Background, Newt GingrichPalin is the 800-pound grizzly. If she enters the race, she will become the gravitational center of the contest. So everyone else is waitin...

Obama Hate Machine Exploits Egyptian Crisis

Filed under: Deep Background, Conservatives, Barack ObamaGlenn Beck and others never let a crisis go to waste. They've been eager to exploit the uprising in Egypt to further their own goals, portraying the president as too weak to stop "plotting" by th...

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