Caucus night in Iowa is over 18 months away and no presidential candidates have officially declared, but it’s still something of a surprise to Iowa politicians how little attention from potential 2012 candidates the state has been getting.
National Republicans are slowly starting to trickle into the state for campaign More…
Today, the Hudson Institute and the Bradley Symposium hosted a number of leading conservative thinkers, who weighed in on the question: Can there be a populist conservatism? Here’s what Jonah Goldberg, Dick Armey, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and Michael Barone had to say:
It’s tax day, meaning there will be no end to the rhetorical grandstanding from conservative lawmakers about how the Democrats’ “tax-and-spend” policies are stifling the economy and preventing average folks from achieving the American Dream.
Conveniently, they will ignore these new numbers from the Tax Policy Center, a More…
Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) becomes, I think, the first member of Congress to join Tea Party activists in pushing back against one of the big narratives of the week — the ramped-up violence and threats against members of Congress who backed health care reform.
“I also rise to condemn More…
While working on something unrelated, I realized that none of the men and women currently being discussed as 2012 GOP challengers to President Barack Obama had served in the military. With the exception of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), who was an Air Force surgeon and who most handicappers consider too More…
Matt Lewis has the latest edition of the presidential straw poll to be distributed later this week to paying attendees of the annual CPAC conference. In presidential years, candidates often buy tickets for supporters in order to help them win these polls. Not coincidentally, the 2007, 2008, More…
House Republicans are following up President Obama’s speech to their annual retreat with strikingly combative questions, with phrasing and numbers very familiar to those of us who have been covering Republicans since the start of 2009. Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the party’s conference chairman, led off questions by attacking the More…
Greg Sargent hears something similar to what I’m hearing about Republican plans for a possible Democratic push to pass elements of health care reform through reconciliation.
[A senior GOP aide] said the leadership — Senators Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl, Lamar Alexander, etc. —
At a luncheon held at the Heritage Foundation, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) was cautiously open to the idea of a three-year non-defense discretionary spending freeze floated last night by the White House.
“I never met a spending freeze I didn’t like,” said Pence. The first he’d heard of the concept, More…
When the health care reform bill passed the House in November, I reported that anti-abortion rights groups thought they’d pulled a number on Democrats by backing Rep. Bart Stupak’s (D-Mich.) anti-abortion funding amendment instead of demanding that conservative members kill the bill outright. In a Friday interview with CNSNews, More…
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