National Democrats
Follow the Money
That old Watergate adage may dictate the 2010 elections. Democrats – both in Raleigh and Washington – may follow the money straight to big-time mid-term defeats. Sometimes at the beach, two waves merge together to make a big wave that about drowns you. That may happen next year. Nationally, the NBC/Wall Street…
Read MoreA Fatherless Boy
Before Father’s Day Barack Obama (whose own father left home when Obama was two years old) speaking to a group of fatherless boys, said, “Just because your father wasn’t there for you, that’s no excuse for you to be absent also…you have an obligation to break the cycle and learn from those mistakes…” No one…
Read MoreTobacco and 1994
Big Tobacco’s big defeat in Congress this month just goes to show that in politics there are no final victories. Turn the page back to 1994. That’s the year Congressman Henry Waxman hauled the top tobacco-company executives before Congress – lining them up and administering the oath like they were Mafia dons. …
Read MoreThe Most Powerful Man in America
I was talking this week with a very smart person who knows what is going on with health care reform in Washington. She said President Obama’s goal is to get a reform bill enacted into law by the end of October. But that depends on Senate Democrats getting 60 votes to force action. …
Read MoreWalking the Plank?
Baby Can You Drive My Car?
Are Taxes Political Death?
Joe Sinsheimer came down last week on Mark Mellman, the House Democrats’ pollster, for counseling against raising taxes. (I read this, by the way, on Facebook. Going on it is paying off for me.) Like a lot of Democrats, Joe is enraged about budget cuts proposed in the House. It looks like the…
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