Sunday, January 27, 2008
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On FNS, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said that the American people have “got to be pleased” with the bipartisanship with which he and Nancy got their scheme together involving government checks to stem a recession which he acknowledged does not exist in an economy which he insisted is still growing. He praised the bipartisanship, calling it a case of R’s and D’s putting the country’s economic interests over their own political interests, when he just admitted that we don’t need the scheme and we know that it is candy for the voters in an election year.

Mike Huckabee was next on FNS, defending himself against attacks from Mitt Romney, talking about Romney’s “secret timetable” for getting out of Iraq. He declared that he is coming in 2nd in national polls and that this was a “national election.” (Both the primary system then the Electoral College are proof otherwise, but there we have it.) Huckabee spoke of the mutual respect he and Senator McCain share.

On TW, South Carolina’s Dem winner Barry Obama said that his campaign proved that you could rise about racial politics in South Carolina, but Bill Clinton played racial politics. He said that Ronald Reagan transformed the political agenda for twenty years, and he averred that Democrats now have the opportunity to do the same.

On MTP, McCain backed his assertion that Mitt Romney had called for a timetable for leaving Iraq. The former Commerce Committee chairman defended himself against Romney’s charge that he is clueless on the economy. He wasn’t sure how to defend himself against Thad Cochran’s assertion that he’s losing-control nuts. Oh, and he claimed that he, Lindsey Graham, and the President concocted the idea for the Surge.

On FTN, Rudy Giuliani stressed his record as a tax cutter and predicted a win in the Florida Republican primary. He said that his strategy to ignore the early States while concentrating on Florida was the right one, given the “assets and resources” he had.

Next on FTN, Hillary agreed with Representative Jim Clyburn that the results in South Carolina should change the tenor of the Democrats’ debate; in fact, she claimed this notion as her own. She blamed Clinton’s over-the-top South Carolina behavior on enthusiasm for his spouse and “sleep deprivation.”

On LE, Mitt Romney repeated as a mantra that John McCain does not understand the economy. He said that John McCain was a liar for telling people that Romney had advocated a timetable for troop withdrawal from Iraq when speaking to Robin Roberts on ABC News’ Good Morning America last April. He said that the economy was in his genes, and that he was all about the future. He would apply “Reagan principles” to the economy. He did not mention his own “stimulus” proposal.

Read the show-by-show review at RedState.com. …