National Democrats
Jerry Brown Redux
Jerry Brown is one of those idiot-savant politicians who can be both a genius and a self-destructive fool. Years ago, he was California’s youngest governor ever, and he succeeded an actor (Ronald Reagan). Now he’s trying to be the state’s oldest governor ever, and he would succeed another actor. Brown’s own roles have…
Read MoreElections Matter
A supporter of the new Wake school board held up a sign at this week’s hearing: “Elections matter.” At the health-care summit President Obama told John McCain: “The election is over.” They’re right. And Obama should ram through health-care reform just like the new school board majority is ramming through its new policies.…
Read MoreTar Heel Makes It Big
North Carolina native Julianna Smoot – who was finance director in the Obama presidential campaign – has been named the new White House social secretary. The announcement last week said this about Smoot: “A native of North Carolina, Smoot has worked in and out of Washington. Prior to joining the Administration, Smoot served…
Read MoreOpen Wide
President Obama may be setting up Republicans for a classic one-two punch. First, the left jab: an open, public “discussion” where he challenges Republicans to put their ideas on the table. That’s what they said they wanted, isn’t it? Then, the right uppercut: ramming a health-care bill through using something called “reconciliation.” …
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 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 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 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. …
Read MoreBayh-Bye
Something 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 MoreStay Tuned
Tiger 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…
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