National Democrats
Thanks, Rush
America’s biggest problem is the economy. So, of course, national politics plunges into culture wars – or, more like, sex wars. I guess it’s because Republicans in Congress and Rick Santorum just can’t resist the lure of legislating morality. And maybe it’s because people know more about sex than about the economy. …
Read MoreSantorum’s Contraception Obsession
Rick Santorum, who wants to take America back to 1900, takes me back to 1984. That was the year of the Hunt-Helms race. In the dying days, we were behind in the polls – and desperate. With the help of (believe it or not) Dick Morris, we came up with a bomb to blow…
Read MoreGone Too Far
Campaigning up in Ohio last weekend Rick Santorum allowed that President Obama’s politics springs from his ‘world view’ which in turn springs from “some phony theology, not a theology based on the Bible.” Obama’s campaign immediately shot back in a white heat that Santorum had just questioned the President’s Christianity. And Santorum answered…
Read MoreWe’ve Heard this Before
Obama’s new budget is out and the more things change the more they remain the same – he’s increasing the deficit (from $1.3 to $1.33 trillion) and increasing spending, but big cuts are coming somewhere down the road. Obama’s been running that same flim-flam, promising big cuts down the road since he was elected…
Read MorePlay that Video
I’m old-fashioned enough not to have much faith in these new ‘automated telephone polls’ that the Democrats at Public Policy Polling do, but you have to give them credit – those polls have turned their company into a P.R. juggernaut. They’re in the newspaper just about every day. Their latest poll on the Democratic…
Read MoreThe Dark Side
Economic numbers are brightening a bit, so President Obama’s ratings are a bit brighter. But the most striking thing about the election climate nine months out is the darkness on the Republican side. Listen to them – and to what their words and their expressions say about their mood, their attitude and their vision…
Read MoreIt’s Free!
I wonder, sometimes, if Obama believes what he’s saying? He ordered the Catholic Church to provide contraceptives to its employees;― the Bishops said No, outrage followed, and Obama realized he’s bitten off more than he could chew. So Obama announced he had a solution. The Church, he said, wasn’t going to have to provide…
Read MoreSuper Bowl Winner
I’m talking about the ads, of course. And the winner was…Chrysler and Clint Eastwood. Fast Company makes the case here. As soon as the ad ran, Twitter lit up with Democrats tweeting that Clint sounded like he was doing a Reelect Obama ad. Maybe with a headline from four years ago: “Romney…
Read MoreThe Democratic ‘Old Guard’
Governor Perdue didn’t call a press conference or step to a microphone, instead she pulled up the drawbridge to the Governor’s mansion then sent out a short message saying she wasn’t running for Governor – which Democrats, with quiet politeness, greeted with a sigh of relief because the most unpopular Governor in memory was no…
Read MoreKnightdale Builds a Bridge
Over in Knightdale they’re building a million dollar footbridge over the Neuse River so residents can walk or jog or cycle down the Neuse River Greenway Trail, meandering through what they call a ‘wilderness area.’ Even better, if you’re from Knightdale, the million dollar bridge is free because Washington and state government are paying for…
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