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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for February 2012
Blog Entries for Thursday, February 16
Romney to Skip Georgia Debate?
Officials in the Georgia Republican Party are putting out word this afternoon that Mitt Romney is not going to participate in a GOP debate set for March 1 in Atlanta. The debate, sponsored by CNN, is being co-sponsored by the Georgia GOP and the Ohio Republican Party. It is the ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, February 15
Messy Week in Congress
There are times when the party in power in the Congress keeps the trains running on time, as all kinds of bills fly through the House and Senate. And then there are times when getting certain legislation approved is like herding cats in a Wyoming pasture. This is one of ...
Santorum Goes "Rombo"
Rick Santorum's campaign has started running a television ad in Michigan that attacks Mitt Romney for going negative in the GOP race for the White House. The ad features a Romney look-alike shooting mud pellets at a cardboard cutout of Santorum. It's called "Rombo." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtOcrS6axnE The Santorum ad comes a ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, February 14
Those Wacky Delegate Rules
Some of you might remember from four years ago how the rules for Democratic Party delegates made the fight between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton even more interesting. Well, we might see the same thing in the GOP race for the White House this year. Let's take two Super Tuesday ...
Selling the Obama Budget
There's nothing quite like the full court press that is undertaken by a White House after the introduction of a President's budget. You flood Capitol Hill with top cabinet and agency officials and then the President heads on the road to tout certain items. And both parties do their best ...
Blog Entries for Monday, February 13
Read the Obama Budget
Over the last few years, I have heard a lot of people talk about how lawmakers in the Congress should "read the bill" before voting on it. It would be nice to see more people "read the budget" as well. So, here are some links so you can paw through ...
GOP Payroll Tax Cut Switch
While most people were focusing on the details of President Obama's latest budget plan, House Republican leaders suddenly shifted positions on extending a payroll tax cut, announcing they would push a bill that extends the plan through the end of this year without cuts to pay for it. "This is ...
Payroll Tax Backup Plan
House Republican leaders signaled on Monday that they are ready to give up on their demand that Congress approve spending cuts to offset the cost of extending a payroll tax cut through the end of the year, as GOP leaders blamed Democrats for refusing to agree to any bid to ...
The Obama Budget
President Obama's new budget plan for Fiscal Year 2013 is somewhat like a rehash of recent budgets from this administration, as it doesn't bring the nation close to a balanced budget and repeats a number of new tax plans on high income earners that have gone nowhere in the Congress. ...
Obama Truth Team
In the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama's aides created a web site called "Fight the Smears," which was intended to push back against various attack lines in that race for the White House. In 2012, the Obama-Biden camp has come up with a similar effort, this time labeled "Truth Team." The ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, February 12
The Campaign Map Expands
The Republican race for President has now entered a new phase where no longer can the candidates, their campaigns and the news media focus on just one state, as the political battlefield expands dramatically over the next few weeks. And it begs an important question - where do you go? ...
Blog Entries for Friday, February 10
Maine and Beyond
After another head shaking week in the GOP race for the White House, the focus now turns to Maine - the Pine Tree State - as Republicans on Saturday night will announce the results of GOP caucuses in that state, non-binding contests which have been going on for the past ...
Obama on Contraceptives
Here is the text of President Obama's statement from the White House Briefing Room on Friday, discussing the changes he's made in a plan to ensure that women who work for religious organizations can get access to contraceptives for no extra cost. The text was provided by the White House. ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, February 9
Romney to CPAC
One of the great rites of a Presidential campaign season for Republicans comes in February when conservative activists gather for the Conservative Political Action Committee conference - and this year is no different. Four years ago, Mitt Romney stunned the crowd by announcing that he was pulling out of the ...
Politics of Contraception
The political battle over a new rule dealing with contraception and religious groups under the Obama health law continues to roil the waters both in Congress and in the 2012 race for President, as both political parties dig in for an unexpected election year scrap on cultural issues. "I woke ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, February 8
STOCK Act Wrangling
When Congress wants to move fast, it can. When lawmakers want to look like they're moving fast but make some changes in a bill that has broad public support, they can do that too. And that's what is going on right now with the STOCK Act. The STOCK Act is ...
Tweaking Mitt Romney
A day after Rick Santorum swept to three victories in the Republican race for the White House, the Obama Administration was staying focused on GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney, jabbing at him over a dispute on new rules under the Obama health law. "I mean this is ironic, that Mitt Romney ...
Romney Runs Aground
We won't know for some time whether Mitt Romney's triple defeat in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado was just a bump in the road or a darker turn for the GOP frontrunner, but the details of the losses are stunning in many ways. Take Minnesota, where Romney easily dispatched John McCain ...
Santorum Sweeps Romney
In yet another crazy turn in the Republican race for the White House in 2012, former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum dealt frontrunner Mitt Romney a stunning series of defeats on Tuesday night, again changing the momentum in this GOP battle. Santorum won by 30 points over Romney in Missouri, beat ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, February 7
Romney Downplays Santorum
The Romney campaign today tried to pour cold water on the possibility that Rick Santorum might win multiple states, as GOP voters cast non-binding votes in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado. The basic argument from the Romney camp is that even if Santorum wins something tonight, it's not going to matter. ...
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