The Week Ahead: Expect a searing critique of Romney economics
The Democrats will answer the Republican critiques and compare their agenda for the future with what they say are Republican plans to reinstate economic policies that produced the 2008 crash.
View ArticleThe balance sheet: Barack Obama’s top ten political assets, liabilities
The balance sheet on Barack Obama is zero right now. The country is evenly divided about his performance as president. And he's tied in the polls with Republican Mitt Romney. Let's take a look at the...
View ArticleRon Paul says Republican Party is not my party (with VIDEO)
"I do not like politics at all. I think both parties are Keynesian economists, and support positions that I do not like," said Paul.
View ArticleEva Longoria forgoes a chair in her speech to Democrats
Actress Eva Longoria used no stage props Thursday when she told Democrats in a somber speech that like the president, she and her South Texas family relied on school loans and hard work to get ahead....
View ArticleCommentary: Suffering from post-convention withdrawal symptoms yet?
They are trailing back from the battle now; a sad column of men and women who have seen too much, and have become unhinged from it. They are the survivors of the presidential conventions; bedraggled...
View ArticlePolitical cartoons of the week: Clint Eastwood’s empty chair makes a cameo...
In this week’s political cartoons:As Hurricanes discriminate against Republicans, Dirty Harry's empty chair joins Mitt Romney and Barack Obama on the stage.
View ArticleTop Ten: Beware of Russians subs in Gulf of Mexico and UN invasion of Texas
The Top Ten: Rush Limbaugh and Sheila Jackson Lee got lost on Mars, Dirty Harry is the RNC mystery guest, Ron Paul supporters are still steamed at Romney and Texas delegation joined the uprising about...
View ArticleSome Democrats have their eye on Julián Castro for 2016 presidential bid —...
At least a few Democratic convention-goers are pining for San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro to pull an Obama and run for president in 2016. That is, if Hillary Clinton and Clint Eastwood's chair don't...
View ArticlePolitico pulls back the curtain on Mitt Romney’s ‘stumbling’ campaign
Much of the criticism from Romney's aides and friends in the piece is directed at Stuart Stevens, a top aide to Romney who the reporters describe as having "a mad-professor aura." But the authors also...
View Article@TxPotomac Poll: Which member of the Texas delegation would you like to have...
Blame it on Mitch McConnell. President Obama told a joke at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner about having a drink with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (NOT) — so...
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