Rudy Giuliani’s ridicule of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s (D-NY) recent claim that the country can’t afford her ideas was the highlight of tonight’s GOP Presidential Debate in Florida. Giuliani quoted Clinton as saying, “I have a million ideas. America cannot afford them all” and proclaimed “No kidding, Hillary. America can’t afford you!”

This isn’t the first time Giuliani misrepresented Clinton’s statements. This time, he got the quote (mostly) right but he stripped her comments out of context and falsely suggested that Clinton’s domestic programs would increase the national deficit. Ironically, according to the Boston Globe, Clinton made the comments in the context of fiscal restraint.

Clinton recently floated the idea of issuing a $5,000 bond to each baby born in the United States to help pay for college and a first home, but it immediately inspired Republican ridicule and she quickly said she would not implement the proposal.

She defended that decision yesterday, saying she is focusing on proposals with more political support and she is not formally proposing anything she can’t fund without increasing the deficit: “I have a million ideas. The country can’t afford them all.”

No word yet on whether Rudy Giuliani believes that the $1.2 trillion the Bush administration has spent on the war in Iraq is something Americans can afford.

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