A Zogby Poll this week illustrates the stark choice facing
Senate Democrats as they have to decide whether or not to vote for ObamaCare. The
poll shows that Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln, high up on the list of
vulnerable Senate Democrats seeking reelection in 2010, literally faces a
choice between being reelected and voting for the bill.
You are comparing Obama to
the Marxist playbook? That post is total, complete and unadulterated baloney and
should placed in Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum as an example of why books are written
about "The Death of Conservatism.”
The post does not deserve
and will not receive from me a serious answer. Is this your best intellectual contribution
to American political discourse? I suspect Obama has learned little, so far, from
Virginia and New Jersey. I know you have learned nothing from New York congressional
district 23.
Keep that Beck-Limbaugh pap
coming and you will nationalize what happened to your candidate in the 23rd district
in New York.
Sarah Palin couldn't
deliver New York's 23rd district for Republicans with her endorsement of Conservative third-party candidate Doug Hoffman, but candidates across the
country are still scared of the power of Palin, Tea Parties and the Club
for Growth combined.
The morning after
Hoffman went down and a Democrat was elected in NY-23 for the first time since
1870, Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) got to work soliciting an endorsement from Palin
for his campaign to win President Barack Obama's old Senate seat next year. Read more...
The GOP’s sweep of gubernatorial elections in Virginia and
New Jersey yesterday sent clear signs of fermenting discontent with the Obama
administration.
In New Jersey, the Republicans recaptured a seat that has
been Democratic for over a decade. The GOP sweep of statewide races in Virginia
represented a sharp departure from a year ago when the state voted for a
Democratic president for the first time since 1964. Read more...
The elections today should send a simple message to the
Obama administration and congressional Democrats: You lost the middle class,
and you won’t get them back until you fundamentally change your legislative
agenda.
During last year’s campaign, President Barack Obama
consistently stressed how his policies were going to help the middle class. He
talked about his middle-class tax cut. He promised that any new spending would
be paid by the rich. He attacked his opponent, John McCain, continuously for
his plan to raise taxes on the middle class. He promised change the middle
class could believe in. Read more...
The Hill's A.B.
Stoddard and Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis consider what the future will
hold for the Democratic agenda on Capitol Hill and in the White House after the
2009 elections if the majority party starts slipping in numbers.
Are Republicans drinking the Kool-Aid again? In the late
1970s they did their best to purge their party of the Ed Brookes, Jacob Javits,
Clifford Cases, Chuck Percys. Strange how some of those hard-right heirs stood
around to give Brooke the highest award the Senate bestows when an extreme
conservative of their ilk named Ari Nelson challenged him in his own primary
back in 1978. Stranger still that many of the moderates the party now wants to
exorcise were preceded by good and decent members who actually got things done
in government.
“Rockefeller Republican” became a swear word to the hard-line
faithful. Well, here we go again. But now even Newt Gingrich is worried — he
sees where this is headed.
Forget the Democrats for a moment. Today presents an important litmus test for the Republicans.
Several major cities are electing mayors, two states are electing governors, and special elections are being conducted in Northern California and upstate New York. Yes, some voters will be traveling to the polls today as a mini-referendum on the current Obama administration. But not many.
Election Day 2009. One year after Barack Obama was elected president, and everybody’s going to be watching three elections on Tuesday, Nov. 3 — in New York, New Jersey and Virginia — to see what it means for Obama’s political power.
Which is, let’s face it, way, way overblown. There is a lot less happening in those three contests than meets the eye. And a lot less than pundits would have you believe.
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