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has played a big role in GOP politics and is vocal about his support for Israel. In 2012, he spent millions backing the presidential candidacy of Mitt Romney, not only in a bid to beat President Obama but also to ensure strengthened support for Israel in domestic U.S. politics. And, more recently, New Je

lions backing the presidential candidacy of Mitt Romney, not only in a bid to beat President Obama but a

nstead, what resonates with the public are misleading analogies with the finances of an individual family, which is why Mr. Obama began echoing Mr. Boehner. And even supposedly well-informed people balk at the notion that simple lack of demand can wreak so much havoc. Surely, they insist, we must have

could try arguing that taxes are too progressive, and that what's needed is a tax system that's nicer to rich people and meaner to poor people. But Mitt Romney didn't have much luck with that gambit in 2012. Inescapable conclusion: The GOP is not interested at all in tax reform, and it's only mildly interes

a cover story in The New York Times Magazine last week on Republicans and their problem with technology, one quote that caught everyone's eye was, "Romney's senior strategist Stuart Stevens, may well be remembered by historians as the last guy to run a presidential campaign who never tweeted," Stevens

f allowing the sequester to take effect could be less damaging than the consequences of going back on his promise not to allow any new tax revenues Boehner has now dug himself into a corner, refusing to even discuss an increase in revenue and insisting in his typical colorful language that it was time f

ands the danger emanating from across the pond. Slower growth and higher unemployment can only hurt his chances in an already very tight race with Mitt Romney. Most Americans are bored or baffled by Europe. Try explaining the latest news about Greek politics or Spanish banks, and their eyelids begin to d

ts that never get beyond the talking stage. Don't expect any initiatives out of the United States until after the presidential election either. If Romney is elected, he and his EFTA_R 1_02204154 EFTA02720625 new team will need time to get settled and will likely see Israeli- Palestinian negotiation

r negotiations when it came to light that they were negotiating a plan to raise far more revenue than the deal that Obama was ready to strike with Boehner. Instead of a grand bargain, in late July the White House and Republicans agreed to raise the debt ceiling enough for about eighteen more months o

States stay on top, even with anemic economic growth, rather than grow rapidly but be overtaken by China. You only need recall President Obama and Mitt Romney sparring over who would be tougher on China to see how Washington channels this popular angst. Certainly, China's growth poses some challenges — bu

a. You only need recall President Obama and Mitt Romney sparring over who would be tougher on China to s

cent of the popular vote. The President talked of the election breaking the "fever" in Washington. "We didn't expect the floodgates would open and Boehner would be Tip O'Neill to our Reagan," Dan Pfeiffer, a senior adviser to the President, said. But reelection, he thought, had "liberated" Obama. The

: A GOP consultant, the chief strategist on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, lamented what's ha

nt, who chairs the Human Rights Foundation, saw a parallel to Russia as he watched the Mueller hearings: A GOP consultant, the chief strategist on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, lamented what's happened to his party: From a Post pollster: The former deputy attorney general has a new gig: Counse

of constitutional standoff. Paul Kane reports: "Officially there to unveil a portrait that will hang in a venerated room just off the House floor, Boehner brought with him one last bid to get his former colleagues to embrace a style that charmed friends and enemies alike. He remains an eternal optimis

of money that Republican Conservatives are willing to squander on more tax breaks for the wealthy as soon as they get a chance. Think about it, if Romney had won; do you have even a bit of doubt that all the supposed deficit hawks of the GOP would suddenly have discovered that unfunded tax cuts and mi

hn Boehner's failure to persuade rank-and-file House Republicans to raise taxes even on millionaires fits the fanatic's strategy exactly. It allowed Boehner to credibly claim he has no choice in the matter -- Republican fanatics in the House tied his hands and manacled his feet -- so the only way to avoi

lopment grants, education programs and even Amtrak. Voting in the spring for the tea party budget developed by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who was Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate last year, was one thing. But as long as a Democrat occupies the White House, Ryan's budget is little more than a n

local governments need this funding." Voices of GOP pragmatists such as Rogers and Capito had been drowned out largely since early in the year when Boehner scheduled a succession of votes on bills advancing Democrats' priorities and raising tea partyers' hackles — a $600 billion-plus tax increase on the

he end, it sounded as if the only cliff-avoidance Boehner was real- ly interested in was one that caised ne

he House speaker, announced Wednesday that nothing had changed; he and his caucus still oppose higher tax rates for the rich and still want to pursue Romney’s defeated goal of raising revenue by lowering rates and cutting unspecified loop- holes. Standing up to Republican recalcitrance on this and many ot

og by Eric Ostermeier in Smart Politics, I am able to point out that the only candidate for president who lost his home state by a larger margin than Mitt Romney was John Fremont in 1856. And Fremont was coming out of a campaign in which the opposition accused him of being a cannibal While Boehner was explain