Bruce Bartlett, author of “Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy,” knows a bit about a supply-side economics — he helped invent it. About 30 years ago, he was the staff economist for then-Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), and helped craft a tax plan that was premised on the idea that […]
I can’t very well call myself a blogger and not let readers know about Bill O’Reilly’s stunning meltdown on Fox News last night. (If you’re watching at work, turn the volume down; the screaming gets kind of loud.) I’ve seen O’Reilly get angry on the air, but this buried the needle on the rage-o-meter. In […]
When it comes to Speaker Pelosi and her bipartisan delegation to the Middle East this week, this has not been the mainstream media’s finest hour. Take Matt Lauer’s reporting from this morning’s Today Show. This morning, NBC’s Today Show ran a biased segment casting doubt on Pelosi’s Syria trip. Every single question asked by anchor […]
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Contributing to the growing buzz that senator-turned-actor Fred Thompson (R) is going to run for president, The Politico’s Mike Allen reported that the “Law & Order” star has “moved beyond pondering a […]
Last year, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle (D), seeking a second term, was considered relatively vulnerable by the Republican establishment. The GOP had successfully recruited then-Rep. Mark Green (R-Wis.) to be their gubernatorial candidate, they cleared the field so he could get the nomination, fundraising was brisk, and some early polling showed Green within striking distance. […]
About a month ago, Time’s Joe Klein was railing against “left-wing extremists.” In this week’s column, Klein seems to have come to the conclusion that these same extremists are right about the president. The three big Bush stories of 2007–the decision to “surge” in Iraq, the scandalous treatment of wounded veterans at the Walter Reed […]
On Wednesday, Rudy Giuliani told CNN that he still supports public funding for abortion. On Thursday, Giuliani took his message on the road to South Carolina. Rudolph W. Giuliani, campaigning in South Carolina, firmly stated that as president he would not seek to make abortion illegal. Aware of the damage his position might do to […]
Fact-checking a Dick [tag]Cheney[/tag] interview with Rush [tag]Limbaugh[/tag] is an almost impossible task. The errors of fact and/or judgment occur so frequently, it’s hard to keep up. But try we must. The embattled Vice President chatted once again with radio’s most notorious demagogue and offered the kind of doozies that only Cheney can provide. For […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * The Congressional Black Caucus Institute may be willing to cooperate with Fox News on presidential debates, but the Democratic National Committee isn’t. The DNC announced today that it would officially sanction six debates during the primary process, but will refuse to sanction any event that includes the Republicans’ news […]
Like an adult who can’t come to grips with the notion that Santa Claus isn’t real, it must be tough to still deny the existence of global warming. After all, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just declared with 90 percent certainty that greenhouse gases are largely responsible for heating the planet. The White House […]