Within hours after the House of Representatives approved health care reform by a narrow margin, Republicans predicted retribution at the polls next fall. They promised to make every Democrat regret that historic vote as the first step toward the reversal of power in Washington. And as the current debate has proved, they aren’t going to Read More
Uplifting as it was to see insurance executives, pharmaceutical manufacturers, hospital officials and doctors gather at the White House on May 11, pledging cooperation toward health care reform, nothing they said or did was inconsistent with precisely the opposite objective. According to the famed pollster who is helping Republicans in Congress to block reform, in Read More
Here’s Gary Bernsten, a Forest Hills resident and former CIA operative who is helping John McCain rally veteran voters in New York, talking at the Marriott in Minneapolis this morning about Sarah Palin’s readiness to lead.
According to Bernsten, Palin has been “an executive in command.”
Talking about her Democratic counterpart, Bernsten said, “Biden is Read More
Here’s Myrna Littleworth, a McCain delegate from Queens, putting her freshly received, Luntz-issued talking points to work.
Republican pollster Frank Luntz just finished a closed-door breakfast meeting with the New York and Wisconsin delegations here at the Marriott Hotel.
Representative Peter King of Long Island gave me a brief sketch of what Luntz said, specifically about Sarah Palin.
"Don’t get distracted by what the media asks,” King said. “Stress that she’s a Read More
Frank Luntz, who has parlayed the media’s mistaken belief that the Contract with America had much to do with the Republican revolution of 1994 into 13 years (and counting) of notoriety, seems to be popping up in the wake of every presidential debate these days.
His gimmick is to hook up a group Read More
There are lame ducks, and there is Rudy Giuliani, whose gait is no less purposeful in this, his last year as the city’s 107th Mayor, than it was in 1994, his first year in office. Did you think he would limp gently into that political night? Did you expect to find him working on his Read More
The screed began landing in mailboxes just as winter was melting into spring. Warning darkly of a “radical feminist who…supports increased taxes and massive new government regulation,” the letter, from a group called Citizens for a Sound Economy, admonished readers to give generously to defeat you-know-who and “put an end to the Clinton era once Read More
