Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) has a history of embarrassing failures and debacles. Remember the Iran-Contra scandal? Daniels was Reagan’s political director and helped direct the White House damage-control effort. The Enron scandal? Ken Lay personally helped choose Daniels to head Bush’s Office of Management and Budget. But Daniels most spectacular mistake was crafting and […]
Despite evidence to the contrary, the president insists that the late-Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) would embrace privatization of Social Security, a claim intended to show bi-partisan support for his scheme since he can’t find living Dems who’ll sign on to his approach. Among the voices speaking out to criticize this tack is Moynihan’s own […]
Would-be presidential candidates, particularly Republicans, have been investing plenty of attention in Iowa and New Hampshire, but if you want to know who’s definitely weighing a campaign in ’08, take a look at South Carolina, home of the nation’s first southern primary. Rudy Giuliani, for example, has scheduled two South Carolina speaking engagements in the […]
Remember yesterday when the executive board of the Association of State Democratic Chairs recommended that the group endorse Donnie Fowler as the new DNC chair? Yeah, that didn’t work too well for Fowler. Former Vermont governor Howard Dean took control of the race for Democratic National Committee chairman yesterday by easily winning the endorsement of […]
The debate over privatizing Social Security is, at its root, a fight over politics and spin. For Bush and other proponents, that’s a good thing, because if this discussion rested exclusively on a policy debate, opponents of the privatization scheme would have already won in a knock-out. Pointing to a Paul Krugman column is almost […]