Deep in the numbers by Rasmussen today you’ll find this gem: Among all Likely U.S. Voters, 20% believe Republicans in Congress have done a good job representing the party’s values over the last several years, while 63% think they’ve lost touch with the party voter base. Democrats, meanwhile, feel their party is representing them. Being perceived as disconnected from their own party has been a | Read More »
The Silvered, Fork-tongued One skates through electoral mayhem with the grace of Johnny Weir, but this time, he falls and fails badly. It will come back to haunt him. I refer to President Obama siding with the public sector unions across the country while the Governors, both Republican and Democrat, try to balance state budgets and ask the unions to make less-aggressive concessions than private | Read More »
Rahm Emanuel’s bid to become Chicago Mayor may have been derailed. Politico reports: In an unexpected move, Rahm Emanuel was thrown off Chicago’s mayoral ballot Monday. A panel of appellate judges ruled 2-1 that Emanuel – who is leading in the polls – did not meet the residency requirement needed to be on the ballot. Emanuel, President Barack Obama’s former White House chief of staff, | Read More »
Yesterday, I wrote about the silliness of the Democrats and Republicans holding hands and sitting together at the President’s State of the Union Address. Today, I’m reversing course, because it seems evident that the Republicans are intent on being public linguine noodles. They don’t want to use any stern rhetoric lest they be smitten with a media curse or (worse!) associated with That Woman, Sarah | Read More »
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