When I was watching the debate last night I did a double-take when I heard Newt say that ‘reforming’ the federal Civil Service system could save “a minimum of $500 billion a year.”
That sounded pretty crazy to me since that’s like 15% of the entire federal government. And the vast majority of federal spending goes to the military and transfer payments like Social Security and Medicare. Read More
The Fox and Friends crew cranks the selective outrage meter up to eleven.
Ridiculous Tea Party hero Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher touts endorsement of ridiculous Tea Party also-ran Rich “Likes To Dress Up Like A Nazi” Iott.
Obama campaign launches TV ad in Michigan going after all the GOP candidates — but especially Mitt — who “turned their back” on the auto industry.
Last night’s debate in 100 seconds. No huge gotcha moments, but some compelling back and forth between Mitt and Rick — and a heaping dose of “this is what the presidential candidates are debating … really?” Watch.
Are GOP candidates paying a price with women voters for the recent tough talk on contraception? Mitt Romney’s poll numbers suggest yes.
How badly did Rick whiff tonight? Let us count the ways.
Maybe 18 months ago this stuff was the stuff of three or four members of Congress and World Net Daily. Now Mitt Romney just said that Iran may get nuclear material and give it to Hezbollah.
Hezbollah will bring it to Mexico.
Nuclear Hezbollah will climb over the fence and then blow up a nuclear warhead of a dirty bomb in Cleveland.
This is a presidential debate.
Something profoundly comical about Romney attacking Rick Santorum over supporting Specter, when Santorum was the conservative backed into supporting the moderate Specter and Romney was probably to the left of Specter at the time.