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Election 2010’s Two Very Different Scenarios
Tweet Share on Facebook October 22, 2010 Comment (1)Here is scenario #1 for the midterm elections--when I raise this, my friends and family call me Mr. Chicken Little, the sky is falling pundit.
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Reagan, Goldwater Wouldn't Recognize the Republican Tea Party
Tweet Share on Facebook September 29, 2010 Comment (20)Barry Goldwater wouldn’t recognize it. Ronald Reagan wouldn’t recognize it. Let alone Jacob Javits, Everett Dirksen, Clifford Case, Margaret Chase Smith, Ed Brooke, Chuck Percy, etc., etc.
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Republicans Scary Tax Math Would Add $4 Trillion to the Deficit
Tweet Share on Facebook September 15, 2010 Comment (16)We have just been presented with the Republican plan for no new taxes, no old taxes, heck, let’s just give everyone more tax breaks! Sounds lovely to those who are voting Tea Party.
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A Big GOP Win in 2010 Could Lead to a Big Obama Victory in 2012
Tweet Share on Facebook September 1, 2010 Comment (9)There has been a lot of political talk that 2010 might resemble 1994, or the reverse of 2006-2008, or maybe 1982, when unemployment was over 10 percent for 10 months and Ronald Reagan lost 26 House seats.
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What Glenn Beck Should Do at His Lincoln Memorial Rally
Tweet Share on Facebook August 28, 2010 Comment (27)I came to know Glenn Beck when I was on his CNN Headline News show often, including going to New York during the primary election season in 2008 with Republican Amy Holmes. His show offered me an exclusive contract as a CNN analyst, which I turned down, in order to appear on other networks.
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Teach Voters Patience and End Sitcom Politics
Tweet Share on Facebook July 27, 2010 Comment (6)Sorry, I keep coming up with these theories--let me test this one out and see what people think. I have been mulling this over for a while.
My theory is that there is a huge gap between what we have been taught to expect from government, from the private sector, from society in general, and what is being delivered. Most of us have grown up now in the post TV-sitcom era. Our nightly shows, beginning in the 1950s, were designed to introduce characters, present a problem or dilemma and solve it all in the space of 24 minutes, allowing time for commercials. We were ingrained with the notion that problems were easy to solve. Heck, if Father Knows Best could do it in a half hour or Bonanza could take 48 minutes, as Alfred E. Neuman would say in Mad magazine, “What, Me Worry?”
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Why Americans Are Anxious, Angry, and Scared
Tweet Share on Facebook July 14, 2010 Comment (18)You can feel it on the Hill, you can feel it within the White House, you can sense it in most households across the country. Anxiety, fear, anger.
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Wall Street-Main Street Message Is Key to 2010 Democratic Wins
Tweet Share on Facebook July 1, 2010 Comment (3)Are we Democrats turning into Chicken Little--“the sky is falling, the sky is falling!” Yeah, maybe more than we care to think.
