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Pete Stark’s Iraq smear
When are Republicans going to defeat crazy old Pete Stark (D-CA), who keeps saying things like this? Representative Pete Stark, the California Democrat who is chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, told Republicans: “You don’t have money to fund the war or children. But you’re going to spend it to blow up
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RNC opposition research on Hillary
Marc Ambinder’s RNC inbox tells the story of modern opposition research: The war against Hillary is already 24/7 more than a year before the general election. Also, we know who the RNC thinks the Democratic nominee is going to be.
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Misleading “poor kids first” rhetoric on SCHIP
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has issued a must-read analysis of the SCHIP debate that reveals the emptiness of White House claims that we should put “poor kids first.” As it turns out, the SCHIP bill is structured to do just that, and the Bush administration’s policies are not (shocking!). CBPP notes that
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Ponnuru: Tax cuts reduce revenue
All hail Ramesh Ponnuru, reality-based conservative, who is challenging supply-side myths on National Review’s blog The Corner. Here is his first post on the subject: “What’s A Republican?” [Ramesh Ponnuru] The New York Sun asks, and offers a list of unifying ideas. The top item on their list concerns taxes. Reductions in top marginal tax
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NYT finally does SCHIP fact-checking
After terrible coverage of President Bush’s misleading claim that the SCHIP children’s health insurance bill covers kids from families making up to $83,000, the New York Times finally breaks the issue down almost two weeks later: Mr. Bush said Monday that the bill would expand eligibility for the program up to $83,000. But Senator Orrin
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McArdle spiked for anti-Laffer claim
Via Mark Thoma and others, the libertarian blogger Megan McArdle, who was last seen claiming that supply siders have “been rather thin on the ground lately,” had a review spiked for admitting that tax cuts don’t increase revenue: A conservative publication, which I will not name, just spiked a book review because I said that
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WSJ suggests Pelosi wants Iraq failure
In the latest attack on dissent, the Wall Street Journal editorial board suggests Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “foreign policy intrusions” may be “consciously intended to cause a U.S. policy failure in Iraq”: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, famous for donning a head scarf earlier this year to commune for peace with the Syrians, has now
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Marshall/TPM mislead on Thompson & WMD
Continuing a troubling pattern of unsupported claims, Josh Marshall and his burgeoning media empire are falsely accusing GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson of suggesting Iraq had WMD at the time of the US invasion. In an October 1 post on his main blog, Talking Points Memo, Marshall touted a new post on TPM Election Central:
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Ron Fournier watch: Obama’s leadership
The AP’s Ron Fournier has returned from his failed Hotsoup venture to write strange “analysis” articles for the news service, including one titled “Is Edwards Real or a Phony?” and another titled “Obama Presidency a ‘Stretch’ for Voters.” The latest installment in the “Do Democrats Suck?” series is titled “Obama a ‘Courageous Leader’?” Nobody can
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Deborah Solomon is harsh… and misleading
I’ve blogged several times about Deborah Solomon’s uncomfortably harsh questions for interview subjects in the New York Times Magazine. It turns out that some of those questions were never asked — indeed, public editor Clark Hoyt reveals today that the print version of the interview is fundamentally misleading: WHEN you read Deborah Solomon’s “Questions For”