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January 20, 2008
Big Day for Mitt and McCain
Mitt appears to be gaining steam now that the Economy is emerging as the major issue. He's even looking better to me, now that my guy (Fred) is probably done.Yukky Huck is also finished despite what he tells you. South Carolina was tailor-made for him. His second place knocks him out of the race. It's not enough to be an Evangelical, particularly one that talks out of both sides of his mouth. I swear something is in the water in Hope Arkansas. Huckabee is the smoothest talker since Bill Clinton and equally as mendacious. Good riddance.
It will be interesting to see if McCain can win over republicans. He's great on my two biggest issues - the war on terror and pork, but he's loathed by some because of McCain - Feingold, opposition of the Bush tax cuts, the gang of 14 and his support of the Bush immigration plan. He's already come back on immigration, and he says he opposed the Bush tax cuts because they didn't include spending cuts, which is a good reason if you ask me. He now vows to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, which is a good thing.
McCain's victory speech last night was brilliant, rousing and hopeful. We will see if he can pull it off.
Another Contest, Another Tantrum
Don Surber notices that the day before both the New Hampshire and Nevada primaries, Bill Clinton, former president of the free world, threw a tantrum.John Dickerson is predicting another outburst on January 25th the day before South Carolina. We ought to have a contest to guess what Mr. Clinton will be wailing about next week. We've done race, we've push polled Barack "Hussein" Obama, we've had the crying jag, we've played gender, Nevada was voter suppression (Bill Clinton personally escorted 8 "suppressed" Culinary workers (for Hillary) to the polls). We've had a lawsuit to get rid of a DNC provision that Hillary was for when she thought it would give her an advantage.
Hillary is clearly the candidate of experience, if experience means doing absolutely anything to destroy your opponents.
January 18, 2008
Making Healthcare Work
Judicial watch has begun releasing the archive notes of Hillary's first attempt at health care obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
They are notable for the tactics. A sampling:
• A “Confidential” May 26, 1993 Memorandum from Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) to Hillary Clinton entitled, “Health Care Reform Communications,” which criticizes the Task Force as a “secret cabal of Washington policy ‘wonks’” that has engaged in “choking off information” from the public regarding health care reform. The memorandum suggests that Hillary Clinton “use classic opposition research” to attack those who were excluded by the Clinton Administration from Task Force deliberations and to “expose lifestyles, tactics and motives of lobbyists” in order to deflect criticism. Senator Rockefeller also suggested news organizations “are anxious and willing to receive guidance [from the Clinton Administration] on how to time and shape their [news] coverage.”
The database would also track personal information about interest group leaders, such as their home phone numbers, addresses, “biographies, analysis of credibility in the media, and known relationships with Congresspeople.”
Gee, but make sure you don't wiretap the terrorists. No wonder Mrs. Clinton would not voluntarily release this stuff. It is notable that these notes came early in 1993, just a few weeks after Clinton took office. Apparently Hillary was ready on Day 1!
Captain Ed has more.
Is anyone following
what's been going on in Canada?
What I find mindblowing often escapes the radar of the rest of the free world - and based on what is happening up north, I use the word "free" sparingly.
Good Advice
Roger Simon has as good advice as anyone on picking a candidate this year:While watching the endless pundit blather on TV tonight after the Republican Michigan Primary and Democratic Nevada Debate and reading the various opinion meisters commentaries online, I had one of those rare zen moments of simplicity. It all comes down to a simple question:
Who would you like to be in the White House if Pakistan fell to al Qaeda and the Islamists gained control of its nuclear arsenal?