Wizbang Politics: March 2007 Archives

Did McCain consider bolting GOP?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 29, 2007 · Comments (5)

According to a story breaking today, leading Democrats claim John McCain approached them about switching parties in early 2001. McCain vehemently denies this. Bob Cusack of The Hill reports: In interviews with The Hill this month, former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and ex-Rep. Tom Downey (D-N.Y.) said there were nearly... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.6/5 (5 votes cast)

Hillary to pay off Vilsack debt

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 28, 2007 · Comments (10)

When former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack and his wife endorsed Hillary Clinton for President the other day, it gave her campaign a needed infusion of momentum. Now, oddly enough, it appears she has agreed to pay off some $400,000 of his abortive campaign's debt. KCCI-TV in Des Moines is reporting:... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

Steve Forbes endorses Giuliani

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 28, 2007 · Comments (1)

The Giuliani campaign - or "exploratory committee," as the legal dance card reads - is announcing the addition of Steve Forbes, who will serve as National Co-Chair. From the official website: The Rudy Giuliani Presidential Exploratory Committee today announced that Steve Forbes, President and Chief Executive Officer of Forbes and... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

Some pork fat for your retreat, Senator?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 27, 2007 · Comments (5)

Far be it from the Democratic Senate to allow their preoccupation with defeating the Americans in Iraq to interfere with their first true love, unrelated and unnecessary pork projects. Courtesy of the Victory Caucus: $24 million for funding for sugar beets. $3 million for funding for sugar cane (goes to... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (8 votes cast)

McCain on Laura Ingraham, celebrating CFR

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 27, 2007 · Comments (1)

Unrepentant. It was once said of the Bourbons that they "have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing." McCain hopes to trump John Kerry by becoming our first French President? UPDATE 7:15 p.m.: K-Lo has the entire interview for download as mp3 at The Corner.... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (3 votes cast)

Men Among Men - Scoring the Presidents

Posted by DJ Drummond · Published: March 27, 2007 · Comments (6)

I have read a few requests to explain how I am going about the games between our Presidents. To answer, I would begin by noting that there seem to be generally three methods used when comparing Presidents. The first style is to write about a President one likes, then sketch... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

Bloomberg eyes indy run

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 26, 2007 · Comments (5)

Billionaire New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is quietly considering a potential self-financed independent campaign for the Presidency. Michael D. Shear of the Washington Post reports: New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a self-made billionaire, has told friends more than once that his definition of good financial planning is making sure... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (3 votes cast)

McCain lowers bar on his fundraising

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 26, 2007

Just before the first quarterly FEC reports are due, Senator John McCain is trying to lower expectations for his own fundraising - which means it will come in lower than anyone has thought it could. From the Associated Press: "We started late, our money-raising, and we're going to pay a... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (5 votes cast)

Edwards to get dozens of endorsements in SC

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 26, 2007

John Edwards, who won the South Carolina primary in 2004 but has been trailing in most polls for 2008, will by endorsed by Columbia's Mayor and an array of state and local officials today. Aaron Gould Sheinin reports for The State: Columbia Mayor Bob Coble and more than 20 other... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.8/5 (4 votes cast)

Hillary: "Show me the money!"

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 26, 2007 · Comments (2)

Senator Hillary Clinton broke all the quarterly fundraising records last week - with just one week's worth of events! Michael McAuliff of NYDailyNews.com reports: In a political season already marked by phenomenal fund-raising, Hillary Clinton has hit a new high, raking in more than $10 million in just one week.... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

Democratic budget "proposes the largest tax increase in history"

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 26, 2007 · Comments (3)

Writing at Townhall.com, Rep. John Campbell points out the defects in the current Democratic budget proposals, beginning with tax policy: The Democrat's budget calls for a tax increase of every tax bracket, slashes the child tax credit, raises the death tax, and reinstates the marriage penalty. And this is just... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (6 votes cast)

Hagel: Impeachment an option?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 26, 2007 · Comments (2)

Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, fresh from his much ballyhooed non-announcement of candidacy, says some Senators consider impeachment an option due to President Bush's Iraq policies. Hope Yen of the Associated Press reports: "Any president who says, I don't care, or I will not respond to what the people of this... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (7 votes cast)

Breaux says will run for Lousiana Gov

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 24, 2007 · Comments (3)

Former Senator John Breaux says he will enter the Louisiana Governor's race if it's determined he is qualified. Doug Simpson of the Associated Press reports: Breaux said he would give up his lobbying job in Washington, D.C., and begin campaigning if the state attorney general determines he meets residency requirements... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (6 votes cast)

Vilsack to endorse Clinton

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 24, 2007 · Comments (1)

This is pretty big. Which state votes first in 2008, again? Henry C. Jackson of the Associated Press reports: Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a major political coup, has captured the endorsement of former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, who recently abandoned his own presidential bid, officials told The Associated... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (2 votes cast)

Tom DeLay - An Example of What is Wrong with the Right

Posted by DJ Drummond · Published: March 23, 2007 · Comments (4)

Tom Delay, former Congressman and much-feared "Hammer" for the Republican Party, has written a book. A disappointing whine of self-pity, actually, and nothing worth your time, attention, or money. In brief, DeLay wrote a warped, bitter perspective on the present political condition, a paranoid delusion where he is at no... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (9 votes cast)

McCain Gets Good News

Posted by Lorie Byrd · Published: March 23, 2007 · Comments (1)

The latest ARG poll contains some good news for McCain.Did all that access McCain gave to local press on the Straight Talk Express last week pay off? ARG has new poll numbers out today (methodology and trendlines in the links) from Iowa and New Hampshire that Dick Bennett, the group's... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (5 votes cast)

Send Hoyers, Guns, And Money

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 22, 2007

The headline of the day greets the Democrats' ongoing difficulties in getting their retreat-for-defeat Iraq de-funding resolution passed. From Extreme Mortman: A Hill insider notes this Politico story, "GOP Forces House Democrats To Pull DC Voting Bill" and files this first-hand account with Extreme Mortman: Hoyer seen yelling at staff...... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

Durbin, Specter offer public financing bill

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 22, 2007 · Comments (1)

Democratic Senator Richard Durbin and Republican Senator Arlen Specter have put forth a campaign finance bill which could provide full public financing for candidates for Congress. Elana Schor of The Hill reports: Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.),... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

"You want a piece of me? It's ON, baby!"

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 22, 2007

I couldn't resist the immortal words of Frank Costanza (played by Jerry Stiller) when considering the ongoing official and unofficial feud between Hillary and Obama. Everyone has seen the following "1984" parody posted by an Obama supporter (who, it now turns out, was working for the Senator's internet consulting firm... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.3/5 (3 votes cast)

Ohio poll: Hillary, Rudy lead

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 22, 2007

In the most recent Quinnipiac University poll, released today, Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani lead their respective nomination races. From The Columbus Dispatch: Giuliani is favored by 31 percent of Republicans, compared with 20 percent for Sen. John McCain, 8 percent for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and 6 percent... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

2007 Louisiana Governor Race

Posted by Alexander K. McClure · Published: March 22, 2007 · Comments (1)

According to a new Southern Media Poll, Congressman Bobby Jindal leads former Senator John Breaux in a potential match-up. Jindal would, like Senator David Vitter, avoid a runoff by beating Breaux 55% to 27%. Of course, Jindal should not take too much comfort in these numbers, given that the Democrats... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (4 votes cast)

"Who are you gonna believe: me, or your lyin' ears?"

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 21, 2007

With apologies to the late Richard Pryor for the paraphrased title . . . Hillary Clinton has owned the title of Most Blatant Evader with answers like to a press scandal inquiry of "There's been no evidence of that" instead of a straight denial, and her 147 "I don't recall"... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (4 votes cast)

Sucking up to Soros

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 21, 2007 · Comments (1)

When George Soros recently penned a column for the New York Review of Books which blasted the United States for refusing to deal with Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group elected to power in the terror-tories, and calling upon the Democratic Party to "liberate" itself from the influence of the "Israel... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (4 votes cast)

Obama: more liberal than Kucinich

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 21, 2007 · Comments (12)

The recently released ratings for members of Congress through 2006 reveal at least one surprise: Obama's voting record is to the left of all Democratic candidates who currently serve in Congress, including Dennis Kucinich. More liberal than Kucinich? The Mad Mayor who spend Cleveland into bankruptcy? The blithering idiot who... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.8/5 (4 votes cast)

McCain's hard left turn

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 21, 2007 · Comments (2)

Lifetime ratings for members of Congress through 2006 have been released. Steven Thomma of McClatchy Newspapers reports (scroll down beneath the Democrats): The most conservative member of Congress seeking the Republican nomination - based on lifetime voting records - is Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, with a score of 82.5.... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

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