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Diagnosis Confusion
The N&O/WTVD poll on health care left me totally confused. The poll, done by Mason-Dixon, “found that 51 percent of registered voters in North Carolina think Congress should not change the U.S. health care system this year. Thirty-eight percent think that lawmakers should take action.” But then the story went on: “The poll…
Read MoreA Pretty Bad Mistake
Sometimes a story floats in over the transom that’s just too incredible to pass up; – this one came at the expense of Bank of America, which certainly doesn’t need any more headaches after being sued by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for fraud, plus a whooping $16 billion. Charlie Cordosa, who used…
Read MoreMessage Misery
The best message in politics is always: “It’s Time for a Change.” That worked like a charm for Democrats in 2006 and 2008. Voters were anxious, angry and ready to throw out the bums in power in Washington. Nothing has changed this year – except Democrats are now the bums in power. …
Read MoreGovernment Perdue Style
Last summer, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Lanier Cansler, told the legislature there were fifteen thousand senior citizens cheating Medicaid by getting Home Care even though they were healthy. So the legislators told Cansler, Alright. Hire doctors, examine the patients, and get the ones who aren’t sick off Medicaid. …
Read MoreJust Wondering…
How long it took some nut on Fox News to blame President Obama, “socialist” Democrats, the IRS and big government for driving the Texas kamikaze pilot over the edge.
Read MoreTiger Tees Off
The toughest shot in golf is the drive off the first tee with a crowd watching. So I thought Tiger’s first shot off the public tee was a good one. All the self-styled PR experts will keep promoting themselves by critiquing his performance and offering their invaluable observations. But my son James…
Read MoreTerry Sanford…Reincarnated?
It’s frightening how Cal Cunningham, the Democrat’s new boy-wonder, has begun to remind me of John Edwards. Just look at Cunningham’s picture in Wikipedia. It’s eerie. The same impish grin. The same hair. And Cunningham, like Edwards, is a candidate straight out of central casting: He steps onto the stage, opens a script and starts…
Read MoreDem’s Blues
Politico has an excellent overview of what’s happening to once-Republican states that went Democratic in 2008 – including North Carolina. One reason it’s excellent, of course, is that it quotes me. Click here to read the analysis.
Read MoreHigh Heels
Maybe I’ve got this wrong but it seems like for years state government was bumbling and fumbling, but basically – except for the occasional road building scandal – honest. Now, times have changed. State government is still bumbling but its also learned chicanery and sleight of hand. Follow this story from the newspaper the…
Read MoreErskine to the Rescue
Can Erskine Bowles save America? Can history repeat itself? I was about halfway through the book The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President, by Taylor Branch, when I heard that President Obama will name Erskine and another Great Compromiser, former Senator Alan Simpson, to lead a national commission on the budget deficit. …
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