Reading their books — so you don't have to (Gail Collins)
By GAIL COLLINS
Published: Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 11:34 a.m.
... Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, sounds kind of charming when he's writing about his family life. (On one of his first dates with his wife-to-be, a chemical engineer, Jindal took her to New Orleans where “we drove down River Road, and I pointed out plantation homes and Supriya pointed out chemical plants.”) Also, he delivered one of his children himself on a bathroom floor. And I really would have liked more details about how he got to be in charge of the state health care system at age 24 ...
Pawlenty is said to have bonded with Romney when they were both passed over by John McCain in favor of Sarah Palin. That seems like a sort of pathetic foundation on which to build a relationship, but this book demonstrates that the two men actually have a lot of other things in common ...
One of the great things about Paul Ryan's book is that it's short, and he only wrote a third of it. You can get credit for having read the entire oeuvre of the premier budget wonk in the House of Representatives in less than an hour ...
I am totally rooting that Romney picks Sen. Rob Portman for his running mate. First of all, Portman is from my hometown, Cincinnati, as is the House speaker, John Boehner. If Portman became vice president, we could probably expect a surge of stories about how Cincinnati is taking over the nation's politics, and I would enjoy that very much ...
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