Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
In politics as in sports, motivation often separates winners from losers. In the health care debate now, conservatives and Republicans are far more motivated than Democrats and Obama supporters. The passion factor has flipped since the election. Then, dispirited Republicans stayed home. Impassioned Democrats lined up at the polls for weeks at the…
The story of how the state budget got made and passed reads like a plot from a bad Gothic novel. On page one Governor Perdue is sitting, looking at last year’s budget and dreaming of all the new things she is going to spend money on this year; she dreams and dreams then adds…
You’ll need it. Governor Perdue is bringing you from Washington State to save her administration. She may as well have painted a big target on your back. At least you’re from here. You’ll work for a governor who has a reputation for being tough on her staff – and erratic. You’ll be…
We’ve got a whale of a health care war going on – and it’s a pleasure to watch the Congressmen and Senators getting bearded in their own Town Hall Meetings. In Round One President Obama charged out of his corner and whipped everyone in sight; then, in Round Two, he unexpectedly got rocked back…
No, not the Dick Morris you see on Fox who apparently came unhinged from working for the Clintons. The Dick Morris who rescued Bill Clinton’s presidency after 1994. Governor Perdue needs somebody who will do what Morris did then: scour government agencies for a series of popular, bite-sized things she could do by executive…
When I was nine years old my ten year old cousin Jennifer was an Amazon â she could hit a baseball, throw a football and run faster than any boy. When it came time to choose up sides there wasnât any question whether sheâd play with the boys. The only question was which side was…
I’m not surprised Public Policy Polling found that only 54 percent on North Carolinians believe Obama was born in the United States, 26 percent said they do not believe he was and 20 percent aren’t sure. The poll reflects a fundamental divide about Obama here and across America. It was there throughout the campaign,…
Now, I may not have all the numbers exactly right on this one. It’s received some coverage, but not enough. So bear with me. Apparently, the Obama administration cut a secret deal with Big Pharma under which the drug companies agreed to give up no more than $80 billion in prescription-drug savings for health-care…
My grandmother used to say one bad act leads to another. Here’s an example: Up on Wall Street the Masters of the Universe got so wrapped up in their own greed, like Midas, they ruined themselves. Then the dominos started falling: Congress stepped in to save them by giving them eight hundred billion dollars of…
Thom Tillis and Phil Berger fed the MAGA alligator. Then it ate them. Thomas Mills wrote…
Exactly 80 years ago, in 1946, Republicans took control of Congress with a simple message: “Had…
Jim Hunt would like James Talarico winning the Democratic primary in Texas. Like Talarico, the late…