Easy to Say Now

AP’s Beth Fouhy, mourns the passing of Hillary: I miss having a woman in the race and the excitement so many women felt at the prospect of electing the first female president. I miss seeing those women on the rope line at Hillary’s campaign events, embracing and whispering to her as though she were their [...]

Grover Norquist’s Fuzzy Math

Grover Norquist today comes up with a somewhat baffling defense of Carly Fiorina’s claim that 23 million small businesses would see tax hikes under Obama’s tax plan. Grover argues this: In 2006 (the latest year available), $706 billion of such income was reported to the Internal Revenue Service. Of this, about half was reported by [...]

Obama in the Middle

From this week’s dead tree version.

McCain Campaign Explains The $32K Tax Attack

McCain’s senior policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, has a memo out this morning explaining why the McCain campaign is attacking Obama for voting to “to raise taxes on folks earning as little as $32,000.” That vote, as has been discussed on Swampland and at Factcheck.org, was for a non-binding budget resolution to allow the 2001 and [...]