Nate Silver did a post yesterday taking down the meme that FDR would have been able to push through healthcare. Of course FDR had a much bigger majority as Nate points out: It’s amazing to see the size of FDR’s majority, but I believe there is another reason why Obama isn’t FDR. Tomorrow Obama will […]
It sounds like Bush is going to come out of hiding: Nearly 10 months after leaving office, former President George W. Bush plans to emerge from self-imposed political hibernation on Thursday as he starts a new public policy institute to promote some of the domestic and international priorities of his presidency. You mean the very […]
I had noticed that Rasmussen seemed to change their way they track presidential approvals once Obama took office. Rasmussen had always had a variable approval rating system. They ask if you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove or strongly disapprove of the President’s performance. On the surface that doesn’t seem to bad, but during Bush’s […]
That seems to be the reason gaining the most traction, that Palin couldn’t work and the cost of defending herself against all the ethics complaints was too much to handle. Here’s a segment from FOX News where Sean Parnell, Palin’s successor, repeats just that. I can buy that as a reason, but does that mean […]
I’m sure the right is outraged over Supreme Court Justice David Souter announcing his retirement only a few months into a Democratic administration. They probably view it as the final deception by the George H.W. Bush choice who turned out to be more to the left than right. Now we get the media frenzy over […]
I think back to a time so long ago, when states were upset over the federal government using their national guard troops for a war in a foreign land. In a time when a small town in California didn’t want military recruiters there, so that town would quickly be labeled as some sort of traitor. […]
Even right here in Ohio we got idiots saying Obama isn’t a citizen: Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner won’t have to prove Barack Obama’s citizenship or throw him off the ballot.` A Warren County magistrate on Friday threw out David M. Neal’s argument that Brunner had a duty to verify whether Obama was born […]
This is a sure indicator of how much the world is anticipating a new leader in the U.S.: From Berlin to London to Jakarta, the destinies of Democratic and Republican contenders in Iowa or New Hampshire, or Nevada or South Carolina, have become news in a way that most political commentators cannot recall. It is […]
For the love of God – no more pluckin’ Presidents! That’s the big picture we always see of Huckaboner now. Lest we not forget about our last pluckin’ President? And that was during Katrina! How about we change to another instrument? Things weren’t bad with the sax: