Politico has an interesting story about about Tea Party efforts in several states to recall politicians — when, you know, the electoral thing just isn’t working for you. Bob Menendez in New Jersey, Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu and Kent Conrad of North Dakota have all been targeted. Yes, because the $66 million recall of California Governor [...]
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…after 10 days in the Middle East and watching the Sunday morning talk shows. A few thoughts: –It certainly was fun watching Governors Schwarzenegger and Rendell carve into pieces the puerile speeches delivered at the CPAC convention. The bites from Mitt Romney–who said not one net new private sector job had been created by the [...]
George Will has a column today in which he deposits all that is wrong in California at liberalism’s doorstep. Certainly, there’s enough blame to go around–and the public employees unions in California have been an implacable force assuring that the state is run for the benefit of its employees rather than its citizens (and, once [...]
As Karen noted earlier today, she and I have a story in this week’s magazine about how much states will be on the hook if and when federal health reform passes. The impetus for the story was, in part, the growing number of governors across the country publicly slamming the idea of expanding insurance coverage [...]
Although the battle over passing health reform is being waged here in Washington, the front lines for implementing whatever passes will be the states. In the new issue of the print magazine, Kate Pickert and I look at what that means. The latest evidence of the Governors’ growing concern about what lies ahead came in [...]
