It seems that President Obama’s car-in-a-ditch metaphor is more clever than it is effective. Check out these results from recent message-testing by Democracy Corps, the polling firm of James Carville and Stan Greenberg: For some, going back to four years ago does not look so uninviting right now: “I was doing a heckavah lot better [...]
Updated below Jonathan Bernstein sketches his view of the likeliest scenario for Congressional Republicans after November: The third strategy would be to forget about their agenda, and basically pretend they’re still in opposition — that is, to continue rejectionism. Don’t think 1995, or 1997-2000, but think more of 1993-1994. Obviously, this works best if they [...]
As long rumored, Jim Jones will be leaving this month as Barack Obama’s national security advisor. This was never a snug fit; Jones complained that he had less access to and sway over Obama than some more junior staffers, notably NSC chief of staff Denis McDonough, one of the most quietly influential figures in the [...]
Sharron Angle, the nitwit Republican candidate for Senate in Nevada, is now claiming that there is a threat of a Muslim takeover of several cities–like Dearborn, Michigan, which has a large Muslim population. Actually, I was just in Dearborn a few weeks ago. Celebrating the end of Ramadan with–yikes!–Muslims. They were business owners and academics, [...]
Norwalk, Conn. In politics as in business, Linda McMahon grasps the art of the sale. During Thursday morning’s debate between Connecticut’s Senate candidates, the Republican cast herself as the antidote to the bankrupt politics of Washington, a product few voters are pleased with in this turbulent cycle. “The choice in this election is absolutely clear,” [...]
In the first decision of its kind, a federal judge in Michigan has ruled that the individual mandate included in the Affordable Care Act is constitutional. Ben Smith at Politico posted a crucial piece of the judge’s ruling, which states that the federal government has power – via the Commerce Clause – to require Americans [...]
Per Ben Smith, Sharron Angle is now running an ad saying that Harry Reid “actually voted to use taxpayer dollars to pay for Viagra for convicted child molesters and sex offenders. What else could you ever need to know about Harry Reid?” Presto, another example of members of Congress conducting politics under the guise of [...]
