Posts by Gary Pearce
Where’s Liddy?
Soul-Searching Democrats
The Democratic Party is undergoing one of its periodic paroxysms of soul-searching. It’s not a pretty sight. The soul-searching has long been bubbling in the blogs. It bubbled onto the front page of The New York Times this week. But it’s nothing new. The same battle has been going on between Liberal Democrats and Not-So-Liberal…
Read MoreWhose Money Talks Loudest?
It will be Art Pope’s millions against the Basnight/Black “machines” this fall. That is, unless Speaker Jim Black’s train derails because of bad publicity and threatening investigations. The legislative races will be a contest between two different ways of raising the big chunks of cash it takes to win a majority in the State Senate…
Read MoreLook Out, Dick Nixon
The USA Today/Gallup poll now shows George Bush at a 31 percent approval rating. Nearly two-thirds of Americans – 65 percent – approve of the job he’s doing. I think he is basically down now to the total viewership of Fox News. According to USA Today: Only four presidents have scored lower approval ratings since…
Read MoreGas Price Politics
Has there ever been a worse idea than the Senate Republicans’ proposal for a $100 tax rebate to help Americans buy more $3 gas? Has there ever been more convincing proof that Senator Bill Frist belongs in an operating room, not the White House? In fairness, Washington Democrats aren’t much better. Since I whacked Bill…
Read MoreBrad Miller’s Burden
Brad Miller is an ideal Congressman: serious, sincere and hard-working. Here is how decent a guy Brad is: He chaired the Senate committee that drew up his Congressional district, but his friends say he didn’t make the district nearly Democratic enough. No good deed goes unpunished. Brad now has Vernon Robinson as an opponent. Robinson…
Read MorePope Rules Republican Roost
Art Pope is now Pope of the North Carolina Republican Party. By engineering the defeats of Reps. Richard Morgan and Rick Eddins, Pope made himself Supreme Pontiff, Enforcer of Orthodoxy and All-Powerful Exorcist of Heretics. I believe that bodes ill for Democrats this November. Pope showed that he has the money – and can buy…
Read MoreArt Pope’s Wild Ride
I don’t know whether Art Pope is going to knock off Richard Morgan in Tuesday’s primary. But I’m willing to bet that Morgan beats Pope in the State Board of Elections. For years now, Pope Republicans and Morgan Republicans have fought a civil war. It’s like the Shiites and Sunnis without the bombings. Pope has…
Read MoreArt Pope’s Wild Ride
I don’t know whether Art Pope is going to knock off Richard Morgan in Tuesday’s primary. But I’m willing to bet that Morgan beats Pope in the State Board of Elections. For years now, Pope Republicans and Morgan Republicans have fought a civil war. It’s like the Shiites and Sunnis without the bombings. Pope has…
Read MoreHistory Repeats Itself
Before Iraq, there was Vietnam. Before America got bogged down in a war in the Middle East, we got bogged down in a war in Asia. Before America had a President trying to prove he is tougher than his father, we had a President trying to prove he was tougher than his predecessor. Before America…
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