Will Democrats listen to Krystal Ball #39;s crystal ball
Krystal Ball cautions Democrats about their complacency in believing that Hillary Clinton is inevitable. She lays out a case that Democrats should consider.
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Left and Right Unite Against the War Party
Murray Polner and Tom Woods, co-authors of We Who Dared to Say No to War, discuss war, Hillary Clinton, and more. Subscribe to the Tom Woods Show: ...
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By Kyle Cheney
11/12/14 5:59 PM EST
Updated 11/12/14 6:58 PM EST
Rudy Giuliani, the tough-talking former New York City mayor, has some advice for Republicans who want to beat Hillary Clinton in 2016: Dont be mean.
The wrong way is to be too aggressive, and be too mean, and to ever get personal, he said Wednesday in an interview with POLITICO. The right way to do it is on policy and on true contribution.
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In a wide-ranging, blunt and occasionally expletive-laden interview, Giuliani whose own 2008 bid for the White House fizzled quickly said Clintons central vulnerability will be what her allies have long argued is a strength: her policy rsum. He compared President Barack Obamas political charisma to Ronald Reagans and had a few choice words for former ally Charlie Crist.
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But he reserved his sharpest comments for Clinton, who represented New York in the Senate toward the end of Giulianis second term at City Hall and who has yet to announce whether shell make a second run for the White House.
Shes a candidate who, with her baggage, can be beaten by the right candidate who handles it the right way and by the right campaign who handles it the right way, he said.
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The Rudy Giuliani guide to beating Hillary Clinton
Some people wonder if Hillary Clinton is going to run for president in 2016. Some people have no doubt that she will be running. But some people say that she has been planning for this race for decades.
In a new book titled Clinton, Inc: The Audacious Rebuilding Of A Political Machine by Daniel Halper, the author outlines his case on the ambitions of Hillary Clinton for the White House, even in the early days of Bill Clintons terms.
In those early days, Clinton critics were demanding the release of Hillary Clintons records from her days as a partner at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock as part of the investigation of a now largely forgotten early scandal known as Whitewater.
Mrs. Clinton was reluctant to release documents or to comply with the requests of the special prosecutor in the case.
One aide approached the First Ladys press secretary, Lisa Caputo, then in her midtwenties. Why doesnt she just come fucking forward and release them? The president had no business in the matter. It wont hurt him.
We cant, Caputo replied. Hillarys got her own ambitions.
What do you mean? he asked. It doesnt get better than First Lady.
Well, theres 04. Or 08.
Its always been known that Mrs. Clinton had political ambitions, but never before had an aide confirmed with such assurance that she was envisioning the presidency for herself, even as her husband was just settling in.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) The big bankers love Hillary Clinton.
Wall Street bankers, explains this piece in Politico by author William Cohan, by and large badly want the former secretary of state and ex-New York senator to be president. Never mind her recent comment about corporations and businesses not creating jobs. To bankers like Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman, Clinton is a pragmatic problem-solver not prone to populist rhetoric. And Wall Street isnt shy about coming out for Clinton, Cohan says. He notes financiers $25,000 donations the maximum contribution to the Ready for Hillary super PAC.
Bracing for regulations: With the Obama administration planning its last two years, business groups are bracing for an onslaught of regulations, the Hill reports. Agencies across the federal government are expected to drop a host of major rules over the next few months, with regulations covering areas from calorie labels on restaurant menus to new rules for hydraulic fracturing and air pollution. There are about two dozen major rules scheduled to drop between now and late January, the Hill reported, citing a review of the administrations official regulatory agenda and rules now awaiting White House approval.
Reid, power player: Soon-to-be-former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could hold the keys to whether gridlock continues in the upper chamber of Congress. When Republicans take control of the Senate in January, Reid will face a choice of whether to try to organize Democrats into a unified front and block GOP measures or show flexibility and give rank-and-file Democrats room to reach deals with Republicans. As The Wall Street Journal writes in a piece on Reid, he is a skilled tactician who can keep his party in line when he feels something important is at stake.
Internet sales tax push: The National Retail Federation plans to spend a six-figure sum on ads and other media efforts to get lawmakers to finish Internet sales-tax legislation during the lame-duck session of Congress. Thats according to the Washington Examiner, which has a piece on the Marketplace Fairness Act, which was passed by the Senate last year. The House never took it up. The bill would allow states to require online merchants to charge customers sales tax. As the Examiner explains, the taxes would be based on the state where customers live, not where the merchant is located.
Democrats favorability down: Favorability for Democrats hit a record low in a Gallup poll out Wednesday morning. Just 36% of Americans say they have a favorable opinion of the party, down six percentage points from before the midterm elections. The Republican Partys favorable rating was 42% in the poll, essentially unchanged from 40%. It was the first time since September 2011 that the GOP has had a higher favorability rating than the Democratic Party, Gallup said.
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