Any minute now, President Barack Obama's bipartisan commission on reducing the federal debt will release a draft calling for a tax code overhaul and deep cuts in miliatary and domestic spending starting in 2012.
The idea, according to the New York Times, is to whack off close to $4 trillion from all projected deficits for eight years -- till 2020.
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Most serious presidential candidates win their last general election before taking aim at the White House. But former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania is eschewing conventional wisdom as he prepares to launch a bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
Floridians are willing to pay slightly more for utilities if more of that power comes from renewable sources, a TaxWatch-sponsored poll says.
Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, now serving as the Ohio chairman of the Freedom and Faith Coalition headed up nationally by Ralph Reed and as a senior fellow for the Family Research Council, has launched a new group to push for a constitutional amendment forcing Congress to balance the federal budget.
Blackwells new group is called Balanced Budget Amendment Now and they are demanding a congressional vote on the matter by October 2011.
Heres the text of the proposed amendment:
Amendment XXVIII
Section 1.
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Gov.-elect Rick Scott named two members to his transition team on Wednesday and pledged that its members would not lobby the state for the next year.
Scott named Pat Gleason, currently working in Gov. Charlie Crists office as director of Cabinet affairs, to serve as open government coordinator to the transition. Scott also tapped Christopher Kise of Foley & Lardner to serve as the teams counselor. Kise previously served as counselor to Crist and as state solicitor general.
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NEW YORK -- Despite its considerable gains in the midterm elections, the GOP has a problem looming in the margins named Sarah Palin.
How could we have missed him? Yesterday's blog enumerating potential replacements for Florida Democratic Party Chair Karen Thurman failed to mention Rod Smith.
Now reports are surfacing that the ex-state senator has an inside track for the job. One Miami Herald blogger plumped Smith's candidacy this way today:
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Hard-luck farmers, ranchers and citrus growers stand to benefit from the Legislature's impending override of Gov. Charlie Crist's veto of House Bill 981.
Tip of the cap to Taegan Goodard and the team at Political Wire, for signaling out this quote from U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina in a story from the Weekly Standard by Stephen Hayes.
"Marco Rubio is a natural leader and is likely to be a leader of our Party, said DeMint in the article. In five years, no one will remember Jim DeMint, and Marco will be president."
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