Aug 2, 2011 – Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (R) criticized his opponents for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday for showing "very little leadership" in the debt-ceiling fight. Huntsman, in a thinly-veiled barb directed toward former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), criticized candidates who failed to stake out a firm position on...

Aug 2, 2011 – Rep. Ron Paul on Monday introduced legislation that would lower the federal government's debt by canceling the roughly $1.6 trillion in debt held by the Federal Reserve. Paul has argued for the last few weeks that the idea represents a quick way to make the growing fiscal crisis more manageable....

Aug 2, 2011 – The Senate approved — and President Obama is likely to sign — $2.4 trillion in budget cuts and a roughly equal amount of additional debt capacity, ending months of gridlock. The 74-26 Senate vote came just in time to avoid an unprecedented default that Treasury officials predicted could happen if...

Aug 2, 2011 – A liberal Democrat on Tuesday called the "super committee" included in the debt-limit deal "anti-democratic." Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) said the committee reduced the governing majority down to a seven-person agreement on a 12-member committee. "It's like 'Honey, I shrunk the Congress,'" he said on ABC'S "Topline."

Aug 2, 2011 – (CNN) - President Barack Obama handily defeated Sen. John McCain in Pennsylvania in 2008, but a new poll offers an early glimpse into the minds of Keystone State voters – and it's not pretty for the President. Pennsylvania voters disapprove of President Obama by a 54 to 43...

Aug 2, 2011 – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday announced a team of 63 lawyers, co-chaired by conservative legal scholar Robert Bork, that will advise his campaign on constitutional and judicial matters, law enforcement and homeland security, and regulatory issues. In addition to Bork, a conservative icon whose nomination by...

Aug 2, 2011 – Story Highlights: * TSA to implement new behavior-detection security screening procedures * New procedures will begin on Tuesday at Boston’s Logan International Airport * TSA chief John Pistole...

Aug 2, 2011 – President Obama and leaders in Congress behaved like "spoiled children" in the debt-ceiling debate, the vast majority of Americans said in a new CNN poll released Tuesday. U.S. adults expressed a sour opinion toward all the players involved in reaching an agreement that includes two phases of spending cuts...

Aug 2, 2011 – SEOUL, Aug 2 (Reuters) - South Korea's central bank bought 25 tonnes of gold over the past two months in its first purchase in more than a decade, saying the time was ripe to boost its gold holding, but markets barely moved on the news. A brittle global economic...

Aug 2, 2011 – One senior Senate aide tells Townhall, "nobody has any idea where [Stephen Hayes] got that from." …

Aug 2, 2011 – With a 12-paragraph statement that came in longer than Newt Gingrich's, Rep. Ron Paul registers his (unsurprising) disapproval of the debt-ceiling deal, a quarter of which is below: "While it is good to see serious debate about our debt crisis, I cannot support the reported deal on raising the nation’s...

Aug 2, 2011 – The founding members of the Senate Tea Party Caucus said Sunday that they won’t seek to delay Senate action on a compromise debt-ceiling plan being negotiated by congressional leaders and the White House ahead of an Aug. 2 deadline. Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican freshman from Kentucky who has previously...

Aug 2, 2011 – The defining element of Sunday night’s debt-limit deal is not what happens now, but what it sets up for the next five months: an all-out war between tax increasers and entitlement cutters, fought on the battlefield of a 12-member congressional “supercommittee.” With both wings of the political spectrum opposed, President...

Aug 2, 2011 – Arguing that the federal government sets immigration policy, the Justice Department has filed a lawsuit to stop Alabama’s toughest-in-the-nation law before it takes effect on Sept. 1. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Birmingham, is the third major legal challenge to the Alabama law, which would, among other...

Aug 2, 2011 – LAKE JACKSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Ron Paul 2012 presidential campaign today announced the national “Veterans for Ron Paul” coalition to energize supporters of Dr. Paul who were members of the U.S. armed forces. The coalition aims to recruit men and women who served in the armed services and who...

Aug 2, 2011 – Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) would come close to beating President Obama in his home state, according to a new poll released Tuesday. Santorum, a longshot Republican presidential candidate, trails Obama among registered voters by a margin well within the margin of error in a new Quinnipiac...

Aug 2, 2011 – Vice President Biden found himself under fire Tuesday from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), who condemned alleged comments the vice president made attacking the Tea Party. Bachmann, a GOP presidential candidate, and Palin, a potential candidate, each reacted with outrage at a...

Aug 2, 2011 – We print the results of the Straw Poll in the latest issue of Townhall Magazine. … If you want to stay up to date on the 2012 presidential election then you need Townhall Magazine!…

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Aug 1, 2011 – Boehner says he's "got a job to do" and those running for president have "their own aspirations." Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Monday brushed off opposition by his party's presidential candidates to a debt-ceiling deal set for a key vote later on Monday in the House.

Aug 1, 2011 – Congress has started debating the debt limit compromise negotiated by President Barack Obama and Republican leaders. The GOP-run House began considering the bill less than a day after the White House and top lawmakers reached agreement on a dispute that had locked them in deadlock for months. Read more:

Aug 1, 2011 – As markets await a final vote on the debt ceiling deal reached by Democrats, with President Obama as their chief negotiator, and Republicans huddled behind House Speaker John Boehner, experts on both sides of the ideological coin have come out against the new plan. Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, representing...

Aug 1, 2011 – Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) is “poised to enter” the presidential race and is holding a high-level strategy session with a small group of top supporters this week, according to an e-mail sent by his 2010 gubernatorial campaign co-chairman. In an e-mail invitation obtained by The Fix, former...

Aug 1, 2011 – The fiscally conservative Club for Growth "strongly opposes" the compromise President Obama worked out with Republican and Democratic leaders and will include the vote in its "key vote" Congressional scorecard, the group announced Monday. "The problems with this proposal are many, but fiscal conservatives should have obvious concerns for the...