December 11, 2007
December 09, 2007
November 05, 2007
October 10, 2007
Setting a low standard
Is there a candidate on the Republican side who would make such a bad President that GWB would look good by contrast? It's a tough order, but the Bushoids have found someone who could fill it.
September 21, 2007
Giuliani improvising, and guns
NPR, reporting on Giuliani's appearance before the NRA today, had a sound clip in which he asserted that the freedom in the Second Amendment was just as important as all the other freedoms in the Bill of Rights. What kind of nut, including the most dedicated firearm aficionado, could believe such a thing? Or say it, even cynically to fawn...
September 07, 2007
Take that!
Robert Greenwald does a job on Giuliani's decision to put the emergency command center at 7 WTC.
August 21, 2007
Amen
Megan McArdle (Jane Galt) disagree on the probability that Rudy Giuliani put the emergency command center in the World Trade Center in order to have a convenient love nest. But we agree that he's out of his ever-loving mind.
August 15, 2007
Joyner on Giuliani
"Dangerously stupid" "Batsh*t insane" "Either a charlatan or a simpleton" "This is beyond ideology; it's just dumb" No, that's not me talking about Rudy Giuliani; that's conservative James Joyner ... talking about Rudy Giuliani's foreign policy. This is truly excellent news. It means that some pieces of Red Blogistan won't just salute whatever the GOP decides to run up the...
August 11, 2007
Was 7 WTC Rudy's Love Shack?
Frequent visits? On weekends? With Judi Nathan, back when their affair was a secret? Oh, my!
July 29, 2007
Is Rudy "pro-choice"? Not hardly.
No, but that's the way he'd spin it in a general election, and the "liberal media" will go along with being spun.
July 17, 2007
July 13, 2007
Rudy vs. the Church
A fight I hope both sides lose. But it's nice to see conservative Catholics calling Rudy on his support of torture.
July 12, 2007
July 08, 2007
Crime, lead, and Rudy
Yes, getting the lead out of gasoline no doubt explains a large share, maybe even the bulk, of the crime drop from 1990-2005. But that doesn't meant that more and better police services didn't count. Only the liberal (and libertarian) Bourbons, who have learned nothing and forgotten nothing, still regard law enforcement as a bigger problem than crime.
June 26, 2007
How low can they go?
A former Republican Congressmen, now chairing the Giuliani campaign in South Carolina, has son with Downs Syndrome. He once publicly referred to the NAACP as "that organization known as the National Association for Retarded People." Words fail.
June 21, 2007
Against the "greedhead Giuliani" theory
When he dropped off the ISG, he was acting out of political cowardice, not greed.
June 04, 2007
Low blow
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Rhode Island compares Rudy Giuliani to Pontius Pilate. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy, of course. But ... ick!
May 28, 2007
Nice try. Try again.
Reagan said in his diary that he thought Rudy Giuliani was crazy. Rudy's people are offering a letter from Reagan to Giuliani as evidence that they were friendly. That would be more convincing if the letter were signed instead of rubber-stamped. But wait! It gets better. The letter focuses on Giuliani's role in drug enforcement, which was a complete failure: while he was in charge, prices fell and volumes soared. Heckuva job, Rudy!
May 14, 2007
$100 million? What for? Who from?
Giuliani Partners won't release its client list. Hard to see how Rudy gets away with this one. But of course he gets away with a lot.
May 13, 2007
Memo to Rudy Giuliani:
Ground Zero health problems
Giuliani stressed speed over safety in cleaning up the World Trade Center after 9/11. Mt. Sinai Hospital in NY screened almost 10,000 Ground Zero recovery workers; 70% had trouble breathing. There's a lawsuit. Hizzonor is refusing to comment to reporters. This is trouble.
May 10, 2007
Rudy Giuliani and the corporate drug pushers
Giuliani helped the maker of OxyContin get away with it: a as a lawyer, as a consultant, and as the head of a PR front group called the Rx Action Alliance.
May 07, 2007
Rudy Giuliani's generosity
He "hates" abortion, and wrote a series of checks to Planned Parenthood. Most of us aren't so generous to organizations that carry out actions we hate.
May 06, 2007
Is Rudy nuts?
There's reason to think so, says Michael Wolff. If you doubt it, listen to the "ferret" tape.
April 29, 2007
Deth-th-thpicable, cont'd
Why shouldn't Giuliani try to ride his 9/11 reputation to the White House? Because the reputation was undeserved, and he gained it with the benefit of a moratorium on partisan finger-pointing that otherwise would have exposed him as seriously deficient in performance both before and after the disaster.
April 12, 2007
Giuliani's fake federalism
This doesn't happen often, but I'm with Marc Ambinder. Federalism is a technique of political organization, not a free-standing moral principle. "That ought to be decided locally" is not an adequate answer to the question "What's your position about X?" unless the right thing to do about X genuinely varies from place to place. And even then, you ought to...
April 09, 2007
9-11 Veterans for Truth?
Looks as if some of Giuliani's mistakes and arrogance in the days before 9/11 are coming back to bite him.
April 08, 2007
Rudy the Clueless, nuclear division
Ooops! I missed this one. Not only did Giuliani, who claims he understands terrorism "better than anyone else running for President," demonstrate that he doesn't know Shi'ite about al-Qaeda, he also showed total ignorance on the nuclear-proliferation issue: At a house party in New Hampshire, Mr. Giuliani suggested that it was unclear which was farther along, Iran or North Korea,...
April 07, 2007
March 14, 2007
Giuliani's firm lobbies for Citgo
Too bad for Rush Limbaugh. He'd love to call talking money from Hugo Chavez "treason," but he can't, because it's a Republican taking the money.
March 13, 2007
Who stands up against torture?
I'll give you three guesses as to the authorship of the document below. I've snipped it at various places to avoid giving away the answer, but not in a way that changes meaning or emphasis. Full text, authorship, and some comments below the fold. Human rights, which function to protect human dignity and the sanctity of life, cannot be cancelled...
Rudy and the Overblown Personnel Matter
Guess who we haven't heard a peep from on the U.S. Attorney purge? Why, that would be the only former U.S. Attorney now running for President. Why have reporters been giving him a pass on this story, which forces him to choose between his professional loyalties and buttering up the Bushoids? Is it because their lips are too firmly planed...
March 09, 2007
Firefighters un-heart Rudy
The firefighters' union says Giuliani gave expedited redevelopment priority over the search for the remains of the fallen. Bad Mayor! No endorsement!
February 23, 2007
Rudy: ask me later
Rudy is ducking questions from ordinary folks. Don't complain about the process: attack his character. Why is he AFRAID?
