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October 26, 2022
Sorry, Democrats, Texas Is Not Secretly a Blue State
Millions of eligible Texans don't vote. That doesn't mean they're liberals-in-waiting.
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Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
Election Night: Ten Takeaways
Cruz cruises, Wendy Davis holds on, Pete Gallego scores an upset, Karl Rove gets cranky, and six other election highlights from around the state and country.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
American Crossroads PAC Rakes in Big Bucks from Rich Texans
Karl Rove's Super PAC netted $30.5 million—more than half of its total donations—from three Texan titans.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
Can Karl Rove Repeat His Winning Magic?
Karl Rove's American Crossroads super PAC has placed a $1.7 million ad buy in six swing states in the wake of Rick Santorum's depature from the race.
Politics & Policy
January 20, 2013
Genius
By now we've heard plenty about how smart senior presidential adviser Karl Rove is, and how he's the most powerful political consultant of all time, and how he delights Republicans and bedevils Democrats. But how did the man who made George W. Bush famous get to be famousand infamoushimself?
News & Politics
January 20, 2013
The Evolver
“All you’ve got is a famous name,” a Republican operative told George W. Bush. But six years later he was governor, and six years after that he was president. And six years after that, his place in history—not to mention the fate of the world—is a little uncertain.
The Culture
August 31, 2012
6 Things You’ll Be Talking About in September
1. “Goodbye to Texas University . . . Hello to the University of Louisiana State?”The trash-talking for Texas A&M’s first-ever Southeastern Conference game got off to an early start in May, when University of Florida head coach Will Muschamp took a shot at Aggieland. “You ever been to College
News & Politics
February 8, 2012
Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler Super Bowl Ad: Texas-Born
Homegrown film director David Gordon Green and three writers who studied at the Michener Center made up the creative team behind "It's Halftime in America" commercial.
Politics & Policy
January 25, 2012
How Drunk Would You Have Been If You Played Karl Rove’s SOTU Drinking Game?
Rove said that if State of the Union watchers drink every time President Obama said the phrase "middle class," then "we're going to have a lot of drunk people in America." Was he right?
News & Politics
November 28, 2011
Karl Rove Has Reinvented Himself as a Powerful Fundraiser
Since leaving the Bush White House, Karl Rove has become “the dominant private citizen in the Republican Party,“ according to a new profile in the New Republic.
Politics & Policy
August 20, 2011
Allbaugh v. Rove
I misinterpreted an e-mail that I received from Allbaugh, which I discuss below. Allbaugh was forwarding an article from Huffington Post by Howard Fineman. The headline of the article was highlighted in the e-mail: “Karl Rove created Rick Perry–Now can he stop him?” The rest of my original post
Politics & Policy
August 17, 2011
Rove criticizes Perry for dissing Bush
Wayne Slater has an interesting story [this was earlier in the week] — which I am unable to link to, but it is in the Quorum Report — about Karl Rove’s displeasure with Rick Perry’s lack of gratitude toward then-Governor Bush during the 1998 primary races for governor and lieutenant
Politics & Policy
October 28, 2009
Dick Cheney to campaign for Hutchison
Is this good or bad? This is a guy who left office with a 19% approval rating. The report comes from the NBC affiliate for the Metroplex: The battle for conservative credibility in the GOP race for governor just got interesting. Former Vice President Dick Cheney, an outspoken critic of
Politics & Policy
September 8, 2009
A conversation with Karl Rove
He was in town having lunch with a friend and I had the opportunity to visit with him. He said that he expected to finish his book on the Bush Administration in the next week or so, and it would be on the spring list. He was very interested in
Politics & Policy
August 20, 2009
Rove on Rove
Today’s Wall Street Journal carries an article by Karl Rove, who defends himself against allegations that he improperly intervened in the firing of U.S. Attorneys and in the prosecution of Alabama governor Don Sieligman, which Rove attributes to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and congressional Democrats.
Politics & Policy
August 19, 2009
Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?
Baseball aficionados may recognize the headline as the title of a book by Jimmy Breslin about the 1962 New York Mets, lovable losers of 120 of their 162 games. I was reminded of the book — the title was a quote from Mets’ manager Casey Stengel — by the astonishingly
Politics & Policy
January 24, 2009
RNC chairmanship update: Rove favorite has the inside track
Stu Rothenberg has a piece about the six-way race for chairman of the Republican National Committee in Real Clear Politics today, which he says is too close to call between frontrunners Michael Duncan, who is seeking a second term, and former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele. Rothenberg gives
Politics & Policy
December 11, 2008
NPR Debate: “Is Bush 43 the worst president in the last 50 years?”
This was the question at a debate sponsored by NPR. Click here for the transcript and the broadcast. Debating for the affirmative: Simon Jenkins, a columnist for the Guardian and the Sunday Times, and Jacob Weisberg, chairman and editor-in-chief of The Slate Group, an online publishing group owned
Politics & Policy
December 9, 2008
Can Sharp Win the Senate Race?
The former state comptroller announced his candidacy today. He does not plan to form an exploratory committee but will begin raising money immediately. This will be Sharp’s second bite at the Senate apple. In 1992, when Lloyd Bentsen resigned his seat to become Secretary of the Treasury in the first
Politics & Policy
December 9, 2008
Rove: “I’m going to name names”
This is politicalwire.com’s quote of the day for Monday, citing the Austin American-Statesman as the source for Rove’s remark: “I’ve got behind-the-scenes episodes that are going to show how unreceiving they were of this man as president of the United States. I’m going to name names and show examples.” I
Politics & Policy
July 31, 1999
His Fantastic Four
Meet the superheroes of George W. Bush’s campaign for the presidency: a quartet of brainy advisers who are helping him to refine and sell his ideas on the economy, foreign policy, and the like.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1999
scalpers.gov
Internet profiteers target George W. Bush.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1999
The Six-Billion-Dollar Men
How to spend a huge budget surplus will be the defining issue of the coming legislative session. It will also determine the political futures of George W. Bush, Rick Perry, and Pete Laney.
Politics & Policy
September 30, 1998
Brother, Can You Spare Some Dimes?
George W. isn’t the only Bush benefiting from the largesse of well-heeled Texans. His brother Jeb Bush, the GOP candidate for governor in Florida, has thus far received more than $382,000 in contributions of $500 or less from Texans. Among the notable donors: financier Perry Bass, oilmen W. A. “Tex”
Politics & Policy
March 1, 1998
Smoke Detectors
Why the state’s tobacco settlement has ignited a controversy.