Jake Tapper of CNN is not sold on Gov. John Kasich’s
Obamacare expansion spin. Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s habit of telling voters“Ohio
money” pays for his Obamacare Medicaid expansion is about to catch up to him.
To silence conservative critics, Kasich says Obamacare expansion is bringing
$14 billion of Ohio money back to Ohio from the federal government. But that’s
not how the expansion works — a fact Kasich’s opponents in a crowded Republican
presidential primary are certain to point out. span> There is no vault
of “Ohio money” set aside to pay for Kasich’s Obamacare expansion, which has already increased federal welfare
spending by $4 billion. Matt Mayer, president of free-market think tank
Opportunity Ohio, expects the governor’s message to fall apart when it’s
challenged by other presidential candidates.......“Kasich’s balanced state
budget and false claim of ‘getting Ohio money back’......Without the federal
funny money that increases America’s national debt, John Kasich’s ‘Ohio
miracle’ utterly collapses,”........Defending Obamacare expansion as a way to
reclaim Ohio money from the feds has worked for Kasich so far, as his poll numbers have jumped following
his official July 21 campaign announcement. That’s likely to change in the near
future.......
Hillary Clinton has proposed a $350 billion education
plan that would enable American undergraduates to attend public colleges
without needing student loans. In exchange for a pledge to end higher-education
budget cuts, states would receive grants to allow students to study without
taking on debt. The proposal would be funded through a cap on itemized
deductions on wealthy families' tax returns. ……
Let’s clear up a potential misunderstanding from the very
beginning: the uniqueness of the strategy behind the election campaign 2016 of
the former Secretary of State Clinton involves two layers of silence. The first
one is practiced by Ms. Clinton who for the first time in the history of
presidential elections rejects any form of contact with the press. As far as
the second layer is concerned, it involves deliberate silence of the
sycophantic press with regard to the problem areas plaguing the record of the
Senator or Secretary of State Clinton........Hillary Clinton was wrong about
radical Islam and she is wrong in her lack of understanding the immense
complexity of the American-Russian relations.........
If you're tired of President Obama and his supporters
playing the race card at the drop of a hat, fear not. Bernie Sanders is giving
us a preview of Democrats who won't hesitate to play the gender card in service
to Hillary Clinton's campaign. "I think for a variety of reasons, Hillary
Clinton has been under all kinds of attack for many, many years," Sanders
said during an interview with CBS's "Face the Nation." "In fact,
I can't think of many personalities who have been attacked for more reasons
than Hillary Clinton. And, by the way, let me be frank — and I'm running
against her: Some of it is sexist." The comments came in response to a
question about Clinton's private e-mail server and whether her handling of the
controversy surrounding her e-mail raises questions about her trustworthiness. Sanders
declined to criticize Clinton on the issue. "I don't know that a man would
be treated the same way that Hillary is," he said. "All that I can
say is I have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I admire her. I respect her.
I like her. She and I have very different points of view on a number of
issues."
Donald Trump, facing a Republican backlash over comments
he made about the hosts for the first GOP debate, came out firing over the
weekend, denying that he'd done anything wrong and doubling down on his
previous threats to embark on a third-party bid for the White House. The
brouhaha came as Trump faced divisions within his own camp, with longtime
adviser Roger Stone departing amid concerns over the campaign's direction. The New York Times (free-article access
for SmartBrief readers)
As I have been suggesting for some time, the first
Republican debate has begun the more serious stage of the 2016 GOP presidential
race. Donald Trump has provided a mixture of entertainment and self-indulgence
prior to the curtain going up, but now that Carly (Fiorina), John (Kasich), and
Chris (Christie) have shown their faces before the audience, we will have a
different theater of political operations. Mr. Trump, incidentally, will
continue to obtain high poll numbers and media attention, and the Republican
establishment should welcome that. An early departure by Trump from the race
while his numbers are high could enable him to run more credibly as a
third-party candidate and do some damage to the GOP. When he fades, as he will
in the coming months, his interest in an independent candidacy will also fade
as it becomes obvious such a run would likely hurt no one except perhaps the
Democratic nominee (from whom he would likely draw more votes (especially if
that nominee is Hillary Clinton) in November 2016…..
"We have never succeeded in shrinking the size of
government," Republican Carly Fiorina told "Fox News Sunday."
She said she would do it. "We have a bunch of baby boomers who are going
to retire out of the federal government over the next five to six years. I will
not replace a single one," she promised. "And yes, we need to
actually get about the business of reducing the size, the power, the cost,
complexity and corruption of this federal government." Host Chris Wallace
played a video clip of Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman
Schultz (D-Fla.) criticizing Fiorina for nearly driving Hewlett-Packard, a
Fortune 500 company, "into the ground." Schultz noted that Fiorina
"fired 30,000 people when she was CEO."…….
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