How the Health Care Summit Could Backfire on Democrats
Conventional wisdom in Washington has already figured out the winners and losers of next week’s White House health care summit. The smart money is on President Obama. The silver-tongued orator will wow C-Span viewers, demonstrating his knack for substantive detail and cool debating style.
The mainstream media has the tactical narrative ready to report as well. [...]
Good-bayh to all that
I’ve always kind of liked Evan Bayh, but his hand-wringing about the lack of biparisanship on Capitol Hill rings hollow. To be sure, the bipartisan spirit does not animate Congress, but individual Senators in Bayh’s position have the power to force Congress occasionally to act in a bipartisan manner, or at least make [...]
Days of Diminutive, Diminishing Democrats
Rasmussen reports that the number of Democrats in the United States — well, let’s be specific… the number of folks willing to fess up to being Democrats — is shrinking; it’s now down to 36.0% of the population (rather, of the pool of respondents in the survey).
Back in 2008, Democrats hit a local peak of [...]
The Scozzafava Scandals
Ordinarily, I dote on every word writ by Rich Galen, cybercolumnist extraordinaire, proprietor of Mullings, my favorite non-blog blog (neg-blog?) Alas, I think he has really gone off the Newtonian end on the NY-23 race.
In today’s Mullings, Rich writes the following:
The Conservatives nominated a guy named Doug Hoffman who does not live in the [...]
