Life and politics are full of irony. Like health-care reform. One of the great obstacles to a “public option” is the fear of “government-run health care.” One voter group most worried about reform are seniors. Specifically, they worry that reform will jeopardize Medicare. That is, they fear that government-run health care will…
Read MoreThe media frenzy over the last month or so has been that Americans don’t support – or understand – President Obama’s health-care reforms. Bad news for Barack, the media and the pundits proclaim. In Washington this week, a local executive told me, she heard one of the media Big Feet pontificating about how…
Read MoreI’m a big fan of The New York Times. It’s still the best newspaper going. But sometimes I wonder what happened to “All The News That’s Fit to Print.” Like last Sunday, when the Times ran a front-page story on the John Edwards saga. Must be something big, right? There was the page-one…
Read MoreHere’s a strange tale straight out of the North Country of New York State. The liberals in the Democratic Party absorb modern values like the air they breathe. Their belief in the Modern State is absolute. Their faith in diversity and pluralism is written in stone. Their doubt is nonexistent. To a Republican…
Read MoreIf anyone’s wondering why Governor Perdue’s popularity is languishing at political rock bottom the answer may be zigging and zagging. Governor Perdue was for budget cuts, then she was against budget cuts. She told the legislature to raise taxes, any taxes, it didn’t matter to her which; then she blasted legislators for raising the…
Read MoreA Democratic friend who was in Washington recently reports that Republicans there are “giddy.” They’re convinced they have Obama and the Democrats on the run, certain they’re finally headed for a big election. But they may have miscalculated. The election is next year, not this year. And they may be overreaching. Especially if…
Read MoreSometimes Democrats are too logical. They forget that communication is mostly emotional. Like health care “death panels.” Democrats need to get off the defensive and turn the issue into political death for Republicans. A Harvard Medical School study says 45,000 Americans die every year because they don’t have insurance. People will gladly…
Read MoreWalter Jones Jr. always surprises me. I first met him in 1977, when he was Governor Hunt’s “eastern North Carolina representative.” It was understood that he was hired as a favor to his father, Congressman Walter Jones, and that young Walter was preparing to take his father’s seat eventually. That was no surprise.…
Read MoreImagine that the shoe was on the other foot – or the shout came from the other side of the aisle. Imagine this: President Bush gives a speech about reforming Social Security. He says we should adopt a partial privatization plan. And he vows that no older American will lose any of their Social…
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