The Carpetbagger Report

When it comes to security or mistresses, Giuliani believes there’s no price that’s too high (for you). Ouch. On a related note, former Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich (R) notes his concern about how the Shag Fund scandal might affect Rudy Giuliani’s presidential ambitions. Ehrlich questioned the timing of the story, which hit just weeks before […]

As recently as a few weeks ago, there was a semblance of stability in Iowa. Among Republicans, Mitt Romney enjoyed a big lead, and was on his way to a fairly easy win, while Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson, and Rudy Giuliani fought it out for second. Among Dems, Hillary Clinton had a modest-but-steady lead over […]

It’s inevitable that presidential candidates will experience a certain ebb and flow as the process unfolds, but can we all agree that Rudy Giuliani has seen the worst week of any candidate in recent memory? On Monday, Bloomberg News reported that Giuliani, despite railing against congressional earmarks on the campaign stump, and pledging to “get […]

Throughout his first six years in office, Bush had a habit of signing congressional legislation into law, but using “signing statements” to explain which parts of the law he didn’t feel like following. Fortunately, the president curtailed the practice this year, sticking with the more traditional sign-or-veto approach embraced by his predecessors. That is, until […]

Last week, in one of his more breathtaking lies, Karl Rove told a national television audience that it was Congress, not the Bush White House, that pushed for an Iraq war resolution in advance of the 2002 midterm elections. Rove said the administration was “opposed” to moving “too fast,” and that the president and his […]

It’s one thing for Republican presidential candidates to believe nonsense about tax policy, but to brag about it in a TV ad is just embarrassing. “I know that reducing taxes produces more revenues,” Republican presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani declares in a new television ad launched Thursday. “Democrats don’t know that. They don’t believe it.” There’s […]

The White House has struggled for quite a while when it comes to dispersing federal funds to municipalities for counter-terrorism. In 2006, for example, the Bush administration, slashed money for Washington, D.C., and New York City using a bizarre grant process that no one could explain. At the same time, the administration released a risk […]

With the presidential campaign in full swing, we’re in a heightened political environment. Everything is perceived as having political implications. Political observers are viewing every event through political lenses. I get that. But it’s hopefully not unreasonable to wonder if there are still any limits. At 6:38pm eastern, just minutes after Leeland “Lee” Eisenberg was […]

So, after a very tough week, are things getting better or worse for everyone’s least-favorite scandal-plagued presidential candidate? Take a wild guess. In the fall of 2001, city cops chauffeured Rudy Giuliani’s then-mistress, Judith Nathan, to her parents’ Pennsylvania home 130 miles away on the taxpayers’ dime. Records show that city cops refueled at an […]

First up from the God Machine this week is an unfortunate fundamentalist Christian twist to a conspiracy theory touted by anti-immigration forces. There’s a major highway, Interstate 35, that stretches from Texas to Minnesota, which , the John Birch Society, Lou Dobbs, Ron Paul, and Tom Tancredo believe is some kind of “NAFTA Superhighway” that […]