A highlight of reading The New York Times on Tuesdays and Fridays is David Brooks’ columns. He’s intelligent, interesting and insightful. But he’s all wrong (“The Fighter Fallacy”) when he says President Obama is all wrong to come out swinging against Republicans. He can’t win that way, Brooks says. Yes, he can. …
Read MoreA Republican friend tells me that Florida Senator Marco Rubio is the GOP’s star of the future: the perfect 2012 running and/or perfect candidate for President in 2016. So – to go with the Birther movement that questions whether President Obama is really from around here – Democrats need to launch a Boater movement…
Read MoreKathleen Parker of the Washington Post opined that debates are “no way to pick a President.” I beg to differ. Her opinion is rooted in a media misunderstanding of what voters look for in debates. She wrote: “Now we judge a candidate’s worthiness for public office as much according to his stage performance as…
Read MoreGovernor Perdue reached across the Pacific to Washington last week to make a point that signals her 2012 strategy: Republicans are hurting education. While she was in China, her office sent a letter to Senators Hagan and Burr endorsing “The Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act.” She wrote that the bill,…
Read MoreIn 1996 six months after Steve Forbes began his campaign for President his brother Tim told me, Here’s how Presidential campaigns work: They stand my brother up on stage then they strip all his clothes off and beat him to a pulp. But in a way it makes sense. Because, I guess, people figure if…
Read MoreIt was interesting watching Republicans react to the death of Gadhafi and the end of his regime. It pained them to give President Obama any credit. They strained instead to find a way to give credit to President Bush. Just like when Osama was killed. The Republicans were quick to credit Bush. …
Read MoreIf Bev Perdue had a few more Cabinet Secretaries like Lanier Cansler she’d never have to cut spending a penny – no matter what Republican legislators said. Last summer the Republicans told Cansler to cut the state’s $12.9 billion Medicaid budget by $350 million. The other day a team of legislators came back to…
Read MoreJudging by the Las Vegas debate, the seven guys and the one lady running for President in the Republican Primaries are getting testy. Right off, with no pleasantries, everyone lit into Herman Cain – which seems to be the paradigm for Republican Presidential campaigns. The pundits and bloggers and Fox News anoint a flavor…
Read MoreTaxes are to politicians as zappers are to bugs. They can’t resist the temptation, and they end up getting fried. Latest example: Herman Cain. Or, as he would say, “Herman Cain!” In their debate this week, his Republican rivals pretty well ripped apart his 999 tax plan. Turns out it would raise taxes…
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