Epstein Secrets

are now promising to bring back the same failed policies that devastated the middle class and crashed the economy in the first place. As President Clinton said in Charlotte, "In Tampa, the Republican argument against the president's reelection was pretty simple: We left him a total mess, he hasn't fini

s and crashed the economy in the first place. As President Clinton said in Charlotte, "In Tampa, the Republican argu

e to wait longer to order evacuations in the event of a hurricane. In an interview, Christopher Van Hollen Jr. of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, describing the Ryan budget "is a shell game designed to hide the damage to the countiy." Van Hollen is frustrated that the damage to which he allu

as Monica Lewinsky and Ken Starr were to the Clinton White House, and he saw the model for escaping a mortal fate in the Clinton response. “What the Clintons did was to go to the mattresses with amazing discipline,” he explained. “They set up an outside shop and then Bill and Hillary never mentioned it aga

ven weeks in office, Trump saw his own predicament as unique and overwhelming. Like no other president before (though he did make some allowances for Bill Clinton), his enemies were out to get him. Worse, the system was rigged against him. The bureaucratic swamp, the intelligence agencies, the unfair courts, th

nd a figure who had merged a conservative fiscal wonkishness—he had been the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and, as well, chairman of the House Budget Committee—with an old-fashioned idea of unassailable Republican rectitude, Ryan was the official last, best hope of the Republican Party. (Bannon, typically, h

ddam Hussein? "I do not believe it is a rush to war," Biden said at the time. "I believe it is a march to peace and security." Or how about Hillary Clinton, then a first-term senator from New York, telling the Senate that "Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, h

n and Mitt Romney offered their vision, President Obama offered his, and Americans made their choice. Rather emphatically. Now Ryan, as chairman of the House Budget Committee, is coming back with an ostensibly new and improved version of the framework that voters rejected in November. Judging by the preview he offered Su