THE CLAIM: Endorsing Kay Bailey Hutchison for governor in Houston on Wednesday, former Vice President Dick Cheney said: "When Texas was faced with a budget shortfall and some legislators were proposing an income tax, Kay stood with the taxpayers...
Media consultant Mark McKinnon says he did nothing to hurt Barack Obama politically during last fall's presidential election. Yesterday, I posted here about a piece in Vanity Fair, which reported that McKinnon helped John McCain's running mate, soon-to-be-former Alaska Gov....
All this controversy over Barack Obama's use of the deep-South phrase about putting lipstick on a pig recalls that queen of folksy rhetoric, Ann Richards, who used to say it a lot. I was there her during the summer 1992,...
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland got a big cheer Tuesday night with a new twist on an old anti-Bush line. President Bush, he told Democratic Convention delegates, "was born on third base, and then he stole second," a take-off on former...
It's been 20 years since the late Gov. Ann Richards delighted Democrats with a fiery keynote speech in which she declared that then Vice President George H. W. Bush was "born with a silver foot in his mouth," Ms. Richards...
As Democrats paid tributes to prominent people who had died in the past four years, the names shown on the Pepsi Center's screens ranged from familiar political figures such as Lady Bird Johnson and former Gov. Ann Richards to...
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