Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a top fundraiser for Hillary Clinton and a member of the Democratic Party’s Platform Committee, announced today that she was throwing her support behind Republican John McCain. Lady de Rothschild has been a long time and devoted supporter of Clinton (saying about Hillary’s run for the presidency “I’ve been waiting […]
Greg Mankiw teaches the famous Economics 10 introductory course at Harvard and on Monday he wrote the following blog entry: Today is the first day of Harvard’s academic year, and the first day of a new year of ec 10. I will give the introductory lecture at noon. I would like to thank all my […]
The Bush administration claims that it is for the free market and privatization, so how are they going to explain that they just nationalized the nation’s largest insurance company, AIG? Even though they said they would not bail out the sinking company, they just used $85 Billion of the taxpayer’s money to buy 80% of […]
Abner Linwood Holton, Jr. is a Republican. In fact, in 1970 he was the first Republican elected Governor of the state of Virginia in almost 100 years (since Reconstruction), and is widely regarded as the “father of the Republican party in Virginia”. Some of you may recall that the Republican resurgence in the South during […]
Sarah Palin went back to Alaska for the first time since her nomination, and held a “Welcome Home” rally and speech in downtown Anchorage in front of around 1000 people. What was interesting, however, was that a nearby protest rally, called “Alaska Women Reject Palin” had a significantly larger turnout than the pro-Palin rally. Some […]
© Matt Davies “I can’t in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle-class Americans who most need tax relief.” –McCain on Bush’s tax cuts, May 2001. “Of course, I might lie constantly too, if I were seeking […]
As Jed Lewison notes, if Sarah Palin were a Democrat, John McCain would be running this ad.
Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas puts his foot deeply in his mouth:
Last night at the Republican convention, the punch line of jokes seemed to “community organizer”: Rudy Giuliani mocked that someone with an Ivy League education would work as a community organizer, bringing laughter and guffaws from the convention floor. Sarah Palin also received laughter when she said “ I guess a small-town mayor if sort […]
© Jeff Danziger Is this why people say “you’d have to pay me to live in Alaska”? In addition to being #1 in pork barrel spending, Alaska is the only state that has neither a state sales tax nor any personal income or capital gains taxes. A few weeks ago, Gov. Palin arranged a special […]
It’s a good thing someone is paying attention to these details! Vanity Fair has done an estimate of the cost of the clothing worn by Cindy McCain and Laura Bush. Laura Bush, obviously trying hard to not appear elitist, wore clothing with an estimated cost of between $3500 and $4300. But Cindy McCain apparently didn’t get […]
When on camera, Republicans insiders Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy keep to their talking points, but what do they really think? What do they say when the microphones are off? Or, at least, when they think the microphones are off? In case you need it, here’s a transcript: Murphy: You know, I come out of […]
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