Michele Bachmann’s star turn
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 15th, 2011 4:38 am by HL
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann came into Monday night’s presidential debate in the Queen City as an unknown commodity. She left it as the most talked-about candidate in the 2012 GOP field.
Bachmann stole headlines at the start by announcing that she had filed to run for president — skipping the exploratory phase entirely — and then proceeding to command the stage in the first hour of the CNN-sponsored debate with quotable answers on every question asked of her. The crowd assembled at Saint Anselm College broke into spontaneous applause after several of Bachmann’s answers
Huntsman to announce for president next week
Former Utah governor and ambassador to China Jon Huntsman will announce he is running for president on June 21, according to sources familiar with his plans.
Huntsman has been expected to enter the race for weeks now, but he did not participate in Monday night’s Republican debate in New Hampshire. His announcement will take place in Liberty State Park in New Jersey with the Statue of Liberty as the backdrop.
He will then go to the Granite State — a state that is expected to be vital to his prospects — befor heading to South Carolina the following day, then Florida, his home state of Utah and Nevada.
After debate, Romney searches New Hampshire for votes (and laughs)
DERRY, N.H. — Fresh from his debate performance, Mitt Romney paraded through two diners, a hardware shop and a feed store here Tuesday morning, continuing his offensive against President Obama and again pitching himself as the Republican most capable of reviving the nation’s beleaguered economy.
Sidling up to likely primary voters as they enjoyed their eggs, toast and morning coffee, the former Massachusetts governor mused about the Boston Bruins (they beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-2 on Monday night), his old Chevy truck (he doesn’t drive it much) and poodle skirts (he loves the 1950s).
Palin’s e-mails, the media’s frenzy
The chin-stroking among media critics and the punditocrisy continues about the recent press frenzy over Sarah Palin’s less-than-riveting gubernatorial e-mails. A great discredit to the trade, we’re told — presuming we have any credit to dis.
It’s as if no one remembers the spectacular Geraldo Rivera “special” 25 years ago when he blew open Al Capone’s safe on live television, only to find a stop sign and two empty gin bottles inside.
Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t. Recall the media circus on Capitol Hill back in September 1998 when Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr ever-so-discreetly sent a motorcade up to Congress to drop off those boxes with the results of his investigation of the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky relationship. There was great material in those boxes — though some of it not suitable for a family newspaper.
Weiner’s circle of friends, though ‘appalled’ by behavior, remains loyal
On Monday, the House’s first day back in Washington following the explosion of the Anthony Weiner scandal, in some ways it was business as usual, in others not. Members took action on several amendments to an appropriations bill; committees met; and there was a buzz of activity in the Speaker’s Lobby, the long hallway just off the House floor where lawmakers and reporters often congregate during votes.
Yet most of that buzz centered on the action off the floor – whether Weiner, a seven-term New York Democrat, should heed the calls from senior congressional Democrats and even the suggestion of President Obama to resign his seat in the wake of the lawmaker’s admission last week that he had repeatedly lied to cover up lewd photos and messages he sent to more than half a dozen women online.
