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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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A GOP Takeover Might Alter Democrats’ Thinking on Bush’s Tax Cuts
Tweet Share on Facebook October 22, 2010 Comment (1)Though the Democrats have been bullish over the past several days that the November 2010 elections will not turn out as badly for them as most everyone expects, there are some signs that some deal-making may be in the offing.
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Maybe NPR Shouldn't Have Fired Juan Williams
Tweet Share on Facebook October 21, 2010 Comment (41)I'm not sure that Juan Williams deserves to be fired for what he said to Bill O'Reilly. Williams slurred Muslims, I guess, but only by revealing his own sissiness and stupidity.
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Obama’s Decision to Resume Deepwater Oil Drilling Is Folly
Tweet Share on Facebook October 21, 2010 Comment (5)With all the election news, nobody paid much attention, which is probably what the administration wanted, but Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar announced last week that the federal government would allow the oil companies to resume deepwater oil drilling. The secretary made this call even though the investigation into the BP oil spill in the Gulf was still in progress.
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The Chamber of Commerce is Playing Tea Party GOPers for Fools
Tweet Share on Facebook October 21, 2010 Comment (13)The Tea Party Republicans have won the off-year election. The House and the Senate are in Republican hands. Well, okay, it’s true that the voters have not spoken yet, but that has not stopped Republicans, pollsters, and the Washington elites from hailing the new era.
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Education Will Split the Democratic Party
Tweet Share on Facebook October 21, 2010 Comment (6)Throughout an electoral season that is, thankfully, coming to a close, the media remained fixated on a phenomenon that an increasing number of pundits and academics think may render the Republican Party asunder: the rise of the Tea Parties. The story line continues to evolve.
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Republican Runyan Pushes Back on Fake Tea Party
Tweet Share on Facebook October 20, 2010 Comment (6)For some months suspicions have been high that Democratic operatives and their allies have been trying to split the Tea Party vote in order to increase their chances of holding on to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Why Did Virginia Thomas Call Anita Hill?
Tweet Share on Facebook October 20, 2010 Comment (12)Of all the cringe-inducing and explosive statements made during the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991, one of the most inadvertently entertaining came from the late Democratic Sen. Howell Heflin, who was trying to understand why Hill would accuse Supreme Court nominee Thomas of sexual harassment.
“Are you a scorned woman?” Heflin asked in his heavy Alabama drawl.
In retrospect, perhaps the question was legitimate. But it was directed at the wrong woman.
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Why Democrats Are Gaining on Republicans in the 2010 Elections
Tweet Share on Facebook October 20, 2010 Comment (23)As a liberal Democrat I was delighted to see the latest NPR poll which shows Democrats gaining in the battleground states against Republicans. Although Republicans still hold 47 percent over the Democrats 44 percent, that 3 percent margin is more palatable and beatable than the 8 percent lead Republicans held over Democrats this past June.
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Conway’s Attack Ad on Paul Shows Democrats’ Desperation
Tweet Share on Facebook October 20, 2010 Comment (16)When Kentucky taxpayer advocate Rand Paul defeated the GOP establishment candidate in last summer’s U.S. Senate primary, the Democrats thought blood was in the water. Clearly an unconventional candidate Paul--the son of legendary libertarian Republican Rep. Ron Paul--was immediately written off by the dominant political establishment as too extreme, too far outside the mainstream of U.S. political thinking to have a shot at winning the general election.
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