Republican Debate Madness

Sam Brownback, Tom Tancredo and Rudy Giuliani came out in support of drilling off the coast of Florida. Giuliani gave new meaning to the word vague.

Giuliani: You don't draw the line anywhere. What you do is, you work with people to try to advance all of these technologies. You can't do everything. You can't do long-term damage to our environment. That would be a mistake. That would be an overreaction. You have to make sound judgments, and you have to advance these new technologies.

That rambling piece of nonsense made no sense.

Giuliani did find time to spar with Mitt Romney over whom is the biggest taxcutter.

"I brought taxes down by 17 percent. Under him, taxes went up 11 percent per capita," said Giuliani, the current front-runner in most national polls. "I led; he lagged."

"It's baloney," responded Romney, who leads the polls in the key early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire. "Mayor, you've got to check your facts."

Romney defended himself by saying he lowered taxes, not raised them as Giuliani charged, and said state spending in Massachusetts grew at a slower rate while he was governor than New York City's budget grew during Giuliani's tenure.

Romney did increase fees by $500 million. That is something he would rather not mention. The classic Republican tax shift game.

Fred Thompson shows his compassionate conservatism for the working man.

Mr. Thompson probably did not expect to be asked, for example, how he would explain government statistics that show that three-fourths of manufacturing workers who lose their jobs and get new ones see their incomes go down. His response: “Well, in a dynamic economy, there are jobs lost and there are jobs gained.”

Wow. Words straight out of a Bruce Springsteen song.

Tom Tancredo states the United States has a trade deficit because of oil. That is wrong. It is no secret that American manufacturing jobs are being outsourced to China and India. The United States does have a trade deficit with the OPEC nation. That is because we buy oil from them and they buy VCRs from other countries.

The real question is when is Tancredo going to drop out.

John McCain wishes interest rates are zero. How are lending institutions suppose to make money? The GOP candidates are economic illiterates.