As has been well documented this week, Rudy Giuliani’s latest radio ad includes a patently false claim about healthcare. Confronted with reality, the campaign vowed to keep lying. And sure enough, that’s exactly what the former mayor is doing. In fact, Giuliani isn’t just repeating his lie about cancer rates, he’s expanding on it. From […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * The market is almost back to where it was when Bush took office nearly seven years ago: “The Dow industrials suffered one of its biggest declines of the year Thursday, plummeting more than 360 points after a Citigroup downgrade served as a blunt reminder to Wall Street that the […]
To the benefit of all humanity, Donald Rumsfeld is no longer the Secretary of Defense. But once in a while, we gain some insights into just how peculiar a man ol’ Rummy really was during his lengthy — he was the longest serving Defense Secretary in U.S. history — tenure at the Pentagon. Consider, for […]
The UK’s Telegraph has been running an interesting conversation piece lately, ranking the top 100 most influential liberals and conservatives in U.S. politics. Each day, the British paper unveils another grouping of 20 on the left and 20 on the right, in ascending order. Today, for example, we find a grouping on the right that […]
The incredibly-shrinking president told the Heritage Foundation today about the new target of his ire. “When it comes to funding our troops, some in Washington should spend more time responding to the warnings of terrorists like Osama bin Laden and the requests of our commanders on the ground, and less time responding to the demands […]
A couple of weeks ago, Brave New Films released a devastating six-minute clip about a Rudy Giuliani’s Achilles heel: his decision to ignore (and lie about) concerns over the FDNY’s radio equipment, which ultimately cost so many lives on 9/11. Thanks to the film and 20,000 petition signatures collected in response, the city is going […]
Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan was on CNN yesterday, explaining how confident he is that the GOP is going to do really well in next year’s election cycle. “I’ve been in 27 states so far, and I’m seeing a great enthusiasm,” Duncan said. “And after last night, my phone rang off the hook today […]
With Michael Mukasey’s Attorney General nomination looking increasingly tenuous, the president presented a defense this morning to counter lawmaker’s questions. A growing number of senators still want Mukasey to explain whether he believes waterboarding is torture, but Bush believes he need not provide an answer. Bush said it was unfair to ask Mukasey about interrogation […]
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: * As expected, the powerful and politically influential American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) endorsed Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign yesterday. “This is no time to take chances. We need someone […]
The Atlantic’s Megan McArdle has published a series of posts about school vouchers lately, and I’ve avoided weighing in because, frankly, I wrote about vouchers almost every day for six years and grew a little tired of it. But Megan’s latest (and apparently, last) item on the subject is worth taking a moment to consider […]