Last summer, Governor Perdue promised legislators huge spending cuts in Medicaid if they’d let her pass out $250 million in no bid contracts – which she said would bring cost saving efficiencies. They did. She did. But no savings materialized. Instead, the Department of Health and Human Services is $250 million over budget.…
Read MoreSomething rings wrong about Evan Bayh’s ostentatiously principled withdrawal from the Senate. Maybe it’s the picture-perfect posing of his family at the press conference. Somehow you wonder if there’s a National Enquirer scoop lurking in the wings. Maybe Bayh fears the same fate his father met exactly 30 years ago – losing a…
Read MoreTiger Woods ought to offer John Edwards a free golf lesson – a thank you for knocking him off the front pages of the newspapers. Last week there was a new twist in the saga of John and Liz and Andy and Rielle – and, surely, after this development the announcement the four of…
Read MoreBack in her days in the General Assembly the Governor developed a sure-fire way to deal with legislators: Bumfuzzle ‘em. For instance: The Governor’s biggest department, the leviathan Department of Health and Human Services, has already plowed through its $200 million budget increase, plus spent another $250 million on no-bid contracts (a lot of…
Read MoreIt must drive The News & Observer’s editors crazy. Every time the National Enquirer publishes a sensational new twist in the John Edwards soap opera, the N&O editors – like the rest of the mainstream media – have to decide whether to ignore it or check it out. Last week, they checked out…
Read MoreThe other night, snowbound, I turned on the television: The Grammy Awards started with a gentleman dragging a blonde – I think it was Lady Gaga – across the stage. Then wearing pink glitter eye make-up and a kind of show girl costume with lime green wings the blonde went to bumping and grinding. Then…
Read MoreSeveral readers pounced on my blog about Obama’s favorable ratings in North Carolina: “Hope that kool-aid tastes good,” one posted. Another: “Wow. Keep spinning, Gary.” OK. How about the latest New York Times/CBS poll: “At a time of deepening political disaffection and intensified distress about the economy, President Obama enjoys an edge…
Read MoreEvery day I read how badly things are going for President Obama. Democrats and Republicans, the mainstream media and the bloggers all alike trash him, his staff, his health care strategy, his jobs plan, his position on the banks, on and on. Then I read a poll – commissioned by the Civitas Institute,…
Read MoreSarah Palin is an unending source of entertainment. She’s nearly as funny as Tina Fey’s impression of her. There’s the scrambled syntax – a sure sign of a scrambled mind. The brassy denial of reality. Reading a speech ridiculing President Obama for reading a speech. Attacking the bailout that she and John McCain supported…
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