this cracked me up, though: ---
"I've got to tell you, I don't think he understands what the Steve Forbes flat tax proposal is," said Alan Viard, a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. ---
isn't one of the big selling points of the flat tax its awesome un-misunderstandable simplicity? and if forbes as his new campaign co-chair can't make it clear to him, well . . . what does that say about mr giuliani's smarts? oh, right -- daniel pipes. 'nuff sed.
j
On 10/26/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [This guy's really gathering some loons about him. Love this detail:
> Bill Simon, son of financier William Simon, who inspired a generation
> of leveraged buyouts with the money he made on the 1982 Gibson
> Greeting Card deal ($330,000 turned into $86 million in 18 months),
> was awakened as a child by his father dumping a bucket of cold water
> on his head.]
>
>
> Washington Post - October 26, 2007
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/25/
> AR2007102502893_pf.html>
>
> Giuliani's Policy Professor
> At 'Simon University,' Conservative Thinkers Help School the Candidate
> By Benjamin Wallace-Wells