BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
We know the Iowa Caucuses will be held next Tuesday. A week after that, New Hampshire will hold its primary. What’s the difference?
One week. Very funny. Not counting that.
A caucus…
SIDEBAR
The plural of “Caucus” is not “Caucii,” as someone – probably someone who OD’d on cable news programs over the New Year [...]
BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
In the Feehery family primary, held over the Holidays, Ron Paul won a surprisingly high percentage of votes. While he didn’t win, he had committed delegates who argued forcefully for his positions.
Mitt Romney won the primary, but just barely.
Ron Paul may be a conspiracy theorist. He might be a [...]
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
We are now inside of a week until the waiting-with-baited-breath Iowa Caucuses.
Every four years everyone looks at who has won in Iowa and who ended up as the nominee and makes the very persuasive case that the Caucuses are not predictive of the ultimate primary process outcome. I said on [...]
BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
The top headlines in some American newspapers on Christmas Eve:
“Bombings in Syria Cast Doubt on Ability of Arab Monitors to Stem Violence”
“Wave of Street Robberies”
“DC Air Jordan Frenzy Leads to Arrests”
“Payroll Tax Fight Leaves Hill Republicans Divided and Angry”
“Clash Over Regional Power Spurs Iraq’s Sectarian Rift”
“Justice Department Cites Race in Halting Law [...]
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
Allow me a day of what, bragging? Whining? Maybe both.
Today I turn 65.
When I was a kid I don’t think I knew anyone who was 65. I thought people who were 35 were old. When I was a kid 35 was the new 65.
I am not one of those people [...]
BY GARY JOHNSON
Reprinted from Loose Change at TCBmag.com
Carnac holds an envelope to his forehead. “Sondheim Rhyme & Tebow Time,” he says. Ed McMahon echoes, in his trademark basso mundo, “Sondheim Rhyme & Tebow Time.” Carnac looks askance and then blows open the envelope to read the question . .
Sorry, you’ll have to wait for it until [...]
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
I understand that national polls traditionally haven’t meant much, because voters in California and Missouri are not going to their local fire stations and high school cafeterias two weeks from tomorrow to vote in the Iowa caucuses.
But, with the advent of social media and the enormous attention being paid to [...]
BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
One of the failings of our system of governance, former Republican Leader Bob Michel once observed, is that you can no longer tell where the campaigns end and governing begins.
That trend has defined American politics for sometime. The differences between campaigning and governing have gotten less and less apparent. And this year, [...]
BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from FeeheryTheory.com
It has been a long time, but the Appropriations Committee has finally got its mojo back. And Hal Rogers, the first term Chairman of the once powerful and feared Committee, is the chief reason why.
The House completed work on all of its appropriations work for the first time in years, and [...]
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
The final debate prior to the January 3 Iowa Caucuses was held in Sioux City last night. The race is no less fluid with 19 days to go than it was last summer. Newt Gingrich had jumped out to a huge lead a week ago, but that lead has (depending upon which [...]
