Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
One of the problems no one’s ever been able to solve as far as politics goes is how to stop one group of folks from using the government to get their hands on another group of folks’ money. For instance, back when President Obama gave green-energy-company-gone-bankrupt-Solyndra government subsidies, Republicans cried foul and said what…
President Obama finally got a Republican vote for his health care bill: Chief Justice Roberts’. Of course, Republicans are trying now to turn it into a “tax,” with Roberts’ help. But it’s a huge win for Obama. And what’s the best thing about winning? Not losing. If he had lost in the…
Well, all the smarty-pants pundits got the Supreme Court decision wrong. So I’ll wait until somebody smart and level-headed explains it. Meanwhile, politics must go on. Obama had been looking at a big defeat and stories about a “failed Presidency.” Now Romney and Republicans are trying to make chicken salad out of chickenshit.…
When you get political power, you feel important. When you feel important, you throw your weight around. When you throw your weight around, you look like a bully. Like Senators Tom Apodaca and Buck Newton. Whatever the outcome of their Lettergate “witch hunt,” the lasting image will be that of Vicki Stanley, executive assistant…
Over in the General Assembly the legislators want to pass a law that says folks can tote pistols in bars because, they say, whether a customer can take his pistol into the ‘Twist and Shout’ ought to be up to the bar’s owner not the government. Which sounds fine except… …the same legislators…
Walter Dalton’s strategy at the first gubernatorial debate tells you two things: He thinks Pat McCrory can’t take a punch. And he has to dramatically change the contour of the race to win. Attacking might work. A big reason McCrory lost in 2008 was that he failed to answer the Perdue campaign’s late attack…
The Good Lord gave everyone their own way of seeing things but he also gave them the ability to stand in another person’s shoes (or at least to get close enough to where another person’s standing to see what he’s seeing). But there are exceptions. For instance, when people get into politics. And join…
Senator Tom Apodaca, the last of the old-fashioned Bull Moose in the State Senate, has tree’d Prior Gibson. Just before the General Assembly voted on the budget a letter landed on legislators’ desks from the Secretary of Transportation saying it was urgent to spend $63 million to build a parkway in Gaston County. Only…
Right now President Obama is like a patient waiting for the doctor to bring back the test results. And the signs aren’t good. In fact, it looks like the Supreme Court is going to give his health-care reform a death sentence on Thursday. Talk about “death panels.” There are three ways this will…
The political sniping began even as chaos still reigned at the White House Correspondents Dinner. My…
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