A sketch from the last day of the Hillary’s economic policy roll-out tour, which, today, got hijacked into another health care tour by her audience. Please excuse the weird angles and hinky quality. I was working with this set up: And a big thanks to Sharon Crosby, who sat for the interview shortly after she [...]
FactCheck.org checks out Rudy Giuliani’s claim that he beefed up New York’s police force by 12,000 while he was mayor, and finds he’s off by, oh, 8,000 or so: On his Web site, Rudy Giuliani claims that he grew New York City’s police force by 12,000 officers between his inauguration as mayor in January 1994 [...]
The tent pole of the retirement and savings plan Hillary introduced today was the “universal 401k” that would give tax breaks to all Americans who want to experience “the miracle of compound interest,” and matching funds of up to $1000 a year for couples earning less than $100,000. Businesses would get tax credits for helping [...]
The Detroit Free Press reports that Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson and Joe Biden are having their names taken off the Jan. 15 Michigan primary ballot because that date violates Democratic party rules. All the contenders have pledged not to campaign there. With today being the deadline to withdraw, the paper notes: The big [...]
There have been many debates in this primary season, but none thus far, in either party, has produced the kind of defining moment that fundamentally alters the dynamic of a campaign. This afternoon’s gathering of GOP candidates in Dearborn, sponsored by MSNBC and the Wall Street Journal, might be different. Mitt Romney has spent the [...]
On Sunday, Hillary Clinton took questions from an Iowa audience and got into a spat with a would-be supporter over her vote to declare Iran’s army a supporter of terrorism. The audience member compared the vote to her vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq and asked why she hadn’t “learned from your [...]
This, apparently, is what passes for a policy debate these days. UPDATE: Think Progress gives us the electronic paper trail.
Her daughter Liz may have signed on for Fred Thompson (though Liz will be a no-show in the spin room this afternoon), but Second Lady Lynne Cheney–herself the daughter of a Mormon (Who knew?)–comes to the defense of Mitt Romney. She says in an interview with Bill Sammon in today’s Examiner that she is “really [...]
