From the diaries by Erick So, this morning, were the lead stories on television that Nancy Pelosi, whose belittling and famous “Are you serious? Are you serious?” response to being asked about the challenge to the ObamaCare individual mandate, was the perfect illustration of her radical and out-of-touch mental state — and that she is as out of touch as former President Bush was when | Read More »
Certainly, most Presidents have been tempted to do what ever it is they want, and most do not, because they listen to those around them and find out they do not know as much as they thought they knew. This problem has zero impact on our current President — as Peretz writes in the New Republic — “the arrogance that is so characteristic of his | Read More »
As Perry solidified his lead for the GOP nomination, the opposite has happened to “the One,” who, in short, has become obviously and glaringly undone — in a way that has been so dramatic that even the main stream media cannot ignore it, downplay it or talk around it. Basically, if there is a credible pollster, Obama has hit that pollster’s all time low, including | Read More »
Forgive me for stating the obvious — but given the MSM’s all out push to save the Senate for their pals the Dems — it bears mentioning: 1) if my algorithm which predicts a net loss of 77 Dem House seats is correct, or if Silver’s column in the NYT’s explaining how the Dems could lose 78 House seats is correct, or if Jay Cost’s | Read More »
From Politico: “The six-month-old law is one of the key planks in the wave of anti-government, anti-spending sentiment that threatens Democratic lawmakers this fall. Just 38 percent of Americans supported the overhaul in a Pew Research Center/National Journal Congressional Connection poll released earlier this week.” So, instead of listening to the American people and changing their approach, policies or recognizing the political failure of ObamaCare, | Read More »
Well, well, well — how the tables have turned. After spending a whole article apologizing for the Obama polls, Fineman goes on to explain in detail the tactics the Dems are going to use against white male voters — attack the GOP. But then, at the end of the article, Fineman lets slip the real tactic: “The goal, if not to win over these guys, | Read More »
The reason that health care reform has previously never passed, is that the smart Democrats stopped themselves when the political costs of health care reform were weighed against their gains. But Crusaders do not measure the costs. They fight until they and all around them die. And the leaders of the Crusaders tell their own — ignore the costs! We must! We must! We must | Read More »
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