Month: April 2007
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More “largest tax increase” rhetoric
The phony talking point that Democrats have proposed the “largest tax increase in American history” (see here and here) continues to spread. Vice President Cheney repeated it yesterday at a reception for Senator Jeff Sessions: The Democrats in the Senate recently passed their budget, which calls for more spending and higher taxes. In fact, they
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Dartmouth blog panel on April 19
If you’re near Dartmouth College, I hope you’ll come out for a panel on blogs that I’ll be part of on April 19: “Mass Communication for the Masses: The Power of Weblogs” THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2007 4:30 PM – 3 Rockefeller Hall Panelists will share their thoughts on the power of blogs in creating communities,
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Matthew Dowd: Belated dissident
I don’t have much to say about former Bush strategist Matthew Dowd’s public break with the President except to wonder what took him so long. Take a look at the New York Times summary of Dowd’s objections: He criticized the president as failing to call the nation to a shared sense of sacrifice at a
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FYI: Guiliani opposed impeachment
Has anyone asked Rudy Giuliani about this recently? A friend of independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr, Giuliani defended Starr’s report on President Clinton but said he would oppose impeachment. He called it a “mistake” for congressional Republicans to aggressively pursue the Clinton sex scandal (Washington Post, 12/6/98). Not sure how that’s going to play in
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McConnell says Dems helping the “enemy”
It’s all too predictable. The current GOP talking point on the debate over the Iraq funding bills is that the legislation “sends a memo to the enemy” telling them when the US will withdraw. Mitch McConnell made that point this morning on “Fox News Sunday” and then went further, directly implying that Democrats want to