Shocker: Karl Rove Is A Liar (And Also Foolish)

At least Mr. McCain fesses up to and explains his changes. ~Karl Rove Rove is remarkably clumsy in his defense of McCain on his changed position on tax cuts. The official McCain mantra today is that McCain (always heroically) opposed Bush’s tax cuts because they were not offset with spending cuts. His reliable stooge on talk radio, Michael Medved, repeats this deception on a regular basis. The trouble is that Rove reminds his audience why, in fact, McCain opposed them: He’d voted against them at the time, saying in 2001 that he’d “like to see more of this tax cut shared by working Americans.” You might think that this would be something you would want to emphasise in an election year such as this, and you might think this is a perfectly good reason to offer opposition to tax cuts, but it’s not that simple. Before McCain could... [read full story]