Newt Gingrich's personal baggage isn't as interesting (or damaging, I think) as his political baggage. He's been on all sides of as many issues as Mitt Romney. And if Romneycare is the one thing of Mitt's that I have the most trouble getting over, this is Newt's.
(Via Nick Gillespie of hit & run, who reminds those who have fogotten what an "opportunistic changeling" Gingrich is.)
Boy, I don't know about this; seems risky to me. Don't some of you secretly distrust those of us with facial hair, as in, "Hey, what've you got to hide?"
State Treasurer Richard Mourdock visited with the editorial board yesterday as part of his primary campaign challenge to Sen. Richard Lugar. Mourdock outlined his bold (Lugar says "not serious") propsal to cut $7.6 trillion in spending over 10 years. The plan includes eliminating four Cabinet-level departments, trumping Rick Perry by one -- and Mourdock had no trouble remembering them all, Commerce, Education, Energy and Housing & Urban Development.
Well, this will be two days in which no mischief will be possible:
The General Assembly plans to take a break in the days before next year's Super Bowl in Indianapolis, in part because out-of-town lawmakers are losing their rooms at area hotels or long-term residences in favor of visitors for the game.
Not sure I care for his attitude:
Watching Republicans jockey for position as they fight to become the presidential nominee isn't distressing Gov. Mitch Daniels, who decided not to join the race earlier this year.
For one thing, he's not watching them.
Well, this would be a good start:
Inspector General David Thomas, in a report released last week summarizing the findings of an investigation into alleged wrongdoing by the Indiana Horse Racing Commission, suggested that the state should consider scaling back its subsidy, which was $58 million in 2010, to pre-2009 levels.
For two years, volunteer Frank Coyles has played Santa for chemotherapy patients at the Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston, S.C. This year, the center told him to stay away:
"Because of our state affiliation, we decided not to have a Santa presence this year," Hollings spokeswoman Vicky Agnew said. Hollings is a part of the Medical University of South Carolina.
Let us not let this milesone pass without note:
The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the federal debt has climbed to a record $15 trillion — a staggering figure that caps a precipitous decade-long rise.
Rick Perry has thrown quite the bomb, calling for a greater diminishment of federal power than I've heard from anybody else. Give him credit for being so provocative that it should make even the staunchest libertarians among us question our beliefs:
C-SPAN is asking the Supreme Court to drop its ban on cameras in the courtroom when it hears arguments over President Obama's healthcare reform law.
