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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2013 53 Comments
Two of the biggies at Politico have a lead article today, Obama, the puppet master (emphasis mine): President Barack Obama is a master at limiting, shaping and manipulating  media coverage of himself and his White House. Not for the reason that conservatives suspect: namely, that a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 03, 2013 55 Comments
It’s the fight the media is waiting and hoping for. What better sport than to start an intra-party Republican presidential nomination fight almost 4 years before the next presidential election and 3 years before the primaries. But it’s inevitable, so if not now, when to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 06, 2012 35 Comments
There are way too many events today for me to post separately. This is a trial run of what we will do tonight starting at 6 p.m. Eastern, which is a Twitter feed using accounts I selected for today, together with a WordPress “live” feed...

Posted by Joel Engel on November 05, 2012 23 Comments
Joe Biden just accused Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan of being liars. How rich is that, coming from a man whose own 1988 campaign for president ended after he was caught plagiarizing a rising British politician? It was no ordinary plagiarism—you know, like candidate Obama’s...

Posted by Joel Engel on October 16, 2012 14 Comments
Unlike the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times doesn’t have a motto.  But if it did, this would work: All the news that’s fit to print for people who don’t know any better, reported by those who don’t want you to. Exhibit 7,593,648: A...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2012 62 Comments
If you have been following the internets, you can see an anaphylactic reaction among supposed “fact checkers” over Paul Ryan’s brilliantly effective speech last night. The section about the closing of a GM plant in Janesville during the Obama administration has been a particular area of...

Posted by Anne Segal on August 14, 2012 13 Comments
I attended the Paul Ryan/Mitt Romney rally in Waukesha, WI, this past Sunday evening, where the crowd of nearly 10,000 mirrored other huge turnouts around the country. There was a group of about 15 protesters, organized by SEIU, Obama for America, and MoveOn.org, lining the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2012 38 Comments
Ron Wyden has rolled out a Cory Booker-like hostage statement rejecting the notion that he and Paul Ryan cooperated in developing a solution to the looming Medicare collapse.  Via Roll Call, Ron Wyden Takes Issue With Mitt Romney Linking Him to Paul Ryan: At a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2012 53 Comments
Anne is at the Romney-Ryan rally in Waukesha.  She says the crowd is so large they had to move the rally from indoors to outdoors to accommodate all the people. We’re still trying to confirm the crowd size estimate.  (Campaign says 10,000, which is similar...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 112 Comments
Whether the pick of Paul Ryan for Veep was a good pick or a bad pick or something in between is irrelevant at this point. Ryan was the pick. The left-wing writers and bloggers are all over it, portraying the pick as extremist and a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 129 Comments
It’s official, it’s going to be Paul Ryan. The Romney Veep App made the announcement earlier this morning, and every news source is reporting it. The decision was made on August 1. The left already is going crazy, but that would have happened regardless of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2011 8 Comments
Specifically, tell me about Paul Ryan as a presidential candidate, now that there are murmurings that he may jump in. Why not?  Republicans are going to have to defend the Ryan plan, who better to do it than Ryan.  Someone who conveys a seriousness about policy without...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 07, 2011 24 Comments
Bill Kristol has floated the idea of a Paul Ryan – Marco Rubio ticket in 2012: Having just returned from the e21 and Manhattan Institute-sponsored Conversation with Paul Ryan (very ably conducted by Paul Gigot)–and having seen Marco Rubio speak recently as well, I’ll just...
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