Jonathan Bernstein argues that Obamacare, even if very successful as a matter of policy, won’t help Democrats much politically because once a party attains its ostensible objectives — be it Medicare or the fall of the Soviet Union — the conversation moves away from that objective in a way that may not help the party …
Fables Of The Reconstruction
Hey hey Paula
I should have seen this coming….Paula Deen is the right-wing noise machine’s martyr du jour. The liberal anti-South media is trying to crucify Paula Deen. They accuse her of using a derogatory word to describe a black person. Paula admitted she used the word — back in the 1980s – when a black guy walked …
Does your conscience bother you?
Whenever there’s a scandal(!), faux or otherwise, it’s compared to Watergate. It’s worth remembering that Watergate didn’t mean anything politically in the long run. Sure, it affected the ’74 midterms, with Democrats gaining 49 seats in the House (fewer than Republicans gained in 1994 or 2010, by the way), and maybe Ford lost in ’76 …
The People Are Revolting, Sir
Depressing gun control poll of the day: Democrats and Republicans continue to be divided over the need for new gun control laws, and the most recent national survey of registered voters from Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind finds that attitudes regarding the perceived likelihood of an armed revolution to protect liberties and the truth about the …
Your Morning Space-Time Causality Failure
With the opening of the Bush Presidentin’ Center in Texas this week, the cottage industry of “Rehabilitation: Mission Accomplished!” is now in full swing. Joe Weisenthal at Business Insider: Bush doesn’t get enough credit for saving the economy in late 2008. Had to be a maverick and buck his own party. — Joseph Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) …
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Team Omega Troll Force GO!
Jen Rubin, every day she’s trollin‘. It took less than 4 1/2 years of the Obama presidency for President George W. Bush to mount his comeback. While doing absolutely nothing on his own behalf (he’s been the most silent ex-president in my lifetime), his approval is up to 47 percent according to The Post/ABC poll. …
North Carolina’s Turn On The Rack, Again
Boy, North Carolina Republicans are really going straight for the insaneotrons, aren’t they. A bill filed by Republican lawmakers would allow North Carolina to declare an official religion, in violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Bill of Rights, and seeks to nullify any federal ruling against Christian prayer by public bodies statewide. The …
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