From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: * Main Entry: fold * Function: verb * Etymology: Middle English, from Old English fealdan; akin to Old High German faldan to fold, Greek diplasios twofold * Date: before 12th century transitive verb meaning: 7 a: to concede defeat by withdrawing (one’s cards) from play (as in poker) b : to bring to an end The virtue of playing poker well | Read More »
From Bloomberg: A survey of 4,518 likely voters by Zogby International Aug. 28-31 put Obama’s approval rating at a record-low 42 percent; it also showed he’s well liked. “He’s got to get control of his presidency,” said John Zogby, president of Zogby International. And the Washington Post has the following assessment for Obamacare: With health-care reform, the administration appears to have two options, one of | Read More »
If you are wondering if Charlie Cook has pulled the fire alarm and is frantically jumping up and down with a bull horn trying to get the Democrats out of the building before many get hurt — wonder no more. Charlie Cook in the National Journal has gone far past pulling the fire alarm — he is in full NATIONWIDE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SIGNAL mode. (Red | Read More »
Periodically, I will be posting writings by Honeymoon with a Black Widow, here is the third: Will a GOP Senator please make the following statement on the floor of the U.S. Senate? It was reported in this morning’s newspapers that Senator Ted Kennedy’s staff has been ordered to close his office, and that their employment with the U.S. Senate would end October 25. It was | Read More »
The Financial Times is reporting that President Obama is attempting quell a revolt within his Party on Obamacare. Gee, I wonder why? Could it be that from Charlie Cook to Larry Sabato are predicting big gains for Republicans in the Congress? Could it be that these now vulnerable House and Senate members are angry that President Obama and the Democratic Leadership has so completely fumbled | Read More »
The Democratic Congress continues its spiraling in poll numbers, no matter which pollster is doing the polling. The Pew Poll is widely regarded by Democrats as accurate. Congressional Dems continue to get bad polling news, and here is some more, Pew has the Congressional Approval Rating at its lowest point ever: “Americans are extremely displeased with Congress, and there are already some signs that this | Read More »
When former Senate Majority Leader Daschle writes a Wall Street Journal op-ed with the following sentence, after both former President Clinton and former Vice President Gore gave major speeches with the same message, it must be a real concern of the Democratic establishment: The choice between complete legislative failure and majority rule should not pose a dilemma for any Democratic senator. Hmmmm.
You gotta hand it to E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post. Really, the town hall angst is really just a media conspiracy to make Obama and liberals look bad. But what if our media-created impression of the meetings is wrong? What if the highly publicized screamers represented only a fraction of public opinion? What if most of the town halls were populated by citizens who | Read More »
When you have cancer in Great Britain or Canada….
There was a point in the last comprehensive health care reform debate (The Great Hillarycare War) when the House Ways and Means Committee passed out its health care reform bill despite what was an obvious revolt in the country. It was irrational political behavior. For about five minutes, the opponents of Hillarycare were stunned. And then the opposition decided to pull out all the stops. | Read More »
The Chief of Staff of a Member of Congress called this afternoon to suggest I look at the comments on Daily Kos about the President dropping the public option. (Now, how many times has he dropped it?) Wow. The left is pissed-off, in deep emotional pain and feel betrayed. Here is one comment such comment: It’s hard to maintain a sense of equilibrium when you | Read More »
Another grassroots picture that tells part of the story of why Obamacare has been such a political failure: H/T Michael Ostrolenk
The President’s most trusted advisor, David Axelrod told Politico: “I think it’s fairly obvious that we’re not in the second inning. We’re not in the fourth inning. We’re in the eighth or ninth inning here, and so there’s not a lot of time to waste.” That is about as good as it gets in terms of any admission from the White House that their signature | Read More »
Periodically, I will be posting writings by Honeymoon with a Black Widow, here is the second: Plan A didn’t work. Barack Obama stared into the camera and told us everyone would get health insurance and it would be cheaper and better and there would be no tax increases or entitlement cuts or rationing and no one would lose the coverage they current have – and | Read More »
So, here it is, the first signs that the Carville-let-health-reform-die-in-the-senate-and-blame-the-republicans-strategy is being pursued. The quote is from a Politico article saying how the Democrats in the House are confident they will have the votes to pass their health care reform, after they make changes to the bill. (What else would the Democratic House leadership say?) However, at the very end of the Politico article is | Read More »
Reconciliation strategy for health care reform faces opposition from key Democratic Senators. The great New York Times health care legislative strategy takes a lethal blow — again. As Bloomberg reports: Resorting to a budget procedure called reconciliation would infuriate Republicans and force Democrats to settle for more limited changes, said Jennifer Duffy, senior editor at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report in Washington. “Both procedurally and | Read More »
The number of likely voters who approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President is at 45 percent. (Note: other pollsters poll “Adults” instead of likely voters. Polling adults inflates President Obama’s approval rating.) The President’s continued pushing of a politically lethal health care plan is to blame. But the three horsemen of the Democratic Party’s Apocalypse: Speaker Pelosi, Chairman | Read More »
Whoever this young solider is, he is really good. This video has been viewed 334,000 times and explains better than any of my writing, why so many Americans are very angry at Congress (which last I checked, was circling the drain at a 15% to 20% approval rating). There are those in Washington, D.C. who sneer at the mere mention of the U.S. Constitution as | Read More »
This fund raising letter from Senator Grassley (reported by the Washington Post) pounds Obamacare: I had to rush you this Air-Gram today to set the record straight on my firm and unwavering opposition to government-run health care. And ask your immediate support in helping me defeat “Obama-care.” I’m sure you’ve been following this issue closely. If the legislation sponsored by Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the | Read More »
It is difficult to understand the degree of the lack of understanding of health care reform politics that could produce the “go it alone” editorial by the New York Times today. Essentially, the New York Times is advising the Democratic Congress to expose itself to enormous political risk for the sake of health care reform, and gives no recognition that the fundamental political baseline of | Read More »
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