Capital Commerce

Economic Policy Missing From Last Night's GOP Debate

By James Pethokoukis

Posted: November 29, 2007

Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard brings the hammer down on last night's YouTube debate among the Republican presidential candidates:

But it was chiefly the questions and who asked them that made the debate so appalling. By my recollection, there were no questions on health care, the economy, trade, the SCHIP children's health care issue, the "surge" in Iraq, the spending showdown between President Bush and Congress, terrorist surveillance, or the performance of the Democratic Congress.

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