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 […]
There’s been a flurry of interesting items lately about the next presidential race, with several players positioning themselves carefully. Wisconsin’s Russ Feingold (D), for example, was in Florida over the weekend to talk to locals about his interest in the job. U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., told the Tiger Bay Club of Volusia County on […]
Bush and the Republicans need polls to shape their message and direction… The Republicans left an annual retreat in the Allegheny Mountains with a 104-page playbook titled “Saving Social Security,” a deliberate echo of the language President Bill Clinton used to argue that the retirement system’s trust fund should be built up in anticipation of […]
The whole Republican gang got together over the weekend and they’d like everyone to know that they just can’t wait to privatize Social Security. Congressional Republicans, after three months of internal debate, this weekend launched a months-long campaign to try to convince constituents that rewriting the Social Security law would be cheaper and less risky […]
Gov. Bob Ehrlich (R-Md.) hasn’t been having much luck lately. Half-way into his first (and probably only) term, Ehrlich’s most notable achievements have been starting a feud with state journalists and vetoing medical malpractice legislation aiming to reform the state’s health care system, which had broad bi-partisan support. Apparently hoping to become even less popular, […]
The Bush administration, which is supposed to believe tax cuts are the miracle cure for literally any problem, is, in a manner of speaking, recommending a tax increase for the millions of Americans who buy airline tickets. A fee charged to airline travelers to help pay for airport security would more than double under President […]
We interrupt the Dean-is-the-inevitable-DNC-chair narrative with word that the frontrunner has hit his first real speed bump. In a sign of resistance to Howard Dean’s bid to lead the Democratic Party, the executive board of the Association of State Democratic Chairs recommended on Sunday that the association endorse one of Dr. Dean’s rivals, Donnie Fowler […]