Dear Fiorina and other Candidates: How to Answer Questions about Entitlement Spending

By: ehud (Diary)  |  October 17th at 04:38 PM  | 

I just finished watching a rather pathetic interview of Carly Fiorina on Fox News Sunday. Chris Wallace kept asking how she would cut spending and reform entitlements and she kept dodging the question and wouldn’t give specifics. Now I understand Boxer would use it against her if she said she was going to cut Medicare, and the same is true of all the other candidates. | Read More »

Why the Slaughter Rule MUST be unconstitutional

By: ehud (Diary)  |  March 17th at 04:36 PM  | 

Consider for a moment what would happen if the House passed a reconciliation package, deeming the Senate bill passed, but the Senate was unable to pass a reconciliation bill. The president could then sign the Senate bill even though that bill, by itself, didn’t pass the Senate and couldn’t pass the Senate (Nancy Pelosi, in a rare moment of truth, just said her members don’t | Read More »