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While I respect Ted Cruz, the future of Texas is not the Tea Party, but the brilliant mayor of San Antonio and rising star of Democrats, Julian Castro. In my last column I described why President Obama is light-years more qualified to be commander in chief than Mitt Romney. Perhaps Sarah Palin and Romney can debate each other to determine who is more unqualified to command, but make no mistake: Hillary Clinton towers over them both. If Clinton were running for president today, she would probably defeat Romney in Texas. If Clinton runs against Palin in 2016, she would sweep Texas and send the part-term, one-term governor back to reality TV.

Establishment Republicans rally today to debunk Sarah Palin much as Letterman, Couric, Tina Fey and the vast info/entertainment culture did at the beginning. It is a measure of her success and the fear Grizzly Mama strikes in the heart of the timid. The Ted Cruz victory in the Texas Senate race brings substantive political change and Sarah Palin is behind the paradigm shift. It is, as The Washington Post called it, “a victory for the Tea Party.” Today, “the establishment” pushes further away from the main pulse of America and Sarah Palin holds the pulse.

The Hill’s A.B. Stoddard takes your questions on Mitt Romney’s response to attacks on his tenure at Bain Capital.

The Hill’s A.B. Stoddard sits down with columnists John Feehery and Karen Finney to discuss the latest presidential polls and President Obama’s strategy of pushing to keep the tax cuts for the middle class.

There are few things that make me more disgusted than those partisan Republicans I referred to in my latest column, "GOP hopes USA fails.” It is unconscionable to watch some Republicans cheer higher joblessness while they oppose jobs bills offered by the president and Democrats in Congress. But Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) has lost the right to be called "distinguished" or "gentleman" with his slanderous and scandalous attacks on the military valor and heroism of Tammy Duckworth, who deserves to defeat him for reelection.

The Hill’s A.B. Stoddard takes your questions on the 2012 election, the Supreme Court's decisions and this week’s upcoming vote in the House to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.

The Hill’s A.B. Stoddard sits down with Pundits Blog contributors John Feehery and Peter Fenn to discuss President Obama’s latest move on immigration and the 2012 presidential campaign.

Exit polls in Wisconsin showed that while taxpayers do not want essential services cut in favor of a few, they are not jumping for Mitt Romney.

An Edison Research exit poll showed that the president polled ahead of Mitt Romney 51 percent to 44 despite Badger State Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) win in his recall election.

The main reason was because the majority of voters (60 percent) agreed that the recall election was not necessary for the newly elected governor, and said recall elections should only be used in cases of “official misconduct.”

On Tuesday night Fox News first called the recall election in favor of Scott Walker, while NBC continued to blast on its ticker that it was to close for calling. In checking the Internet on The New York Times and other websites it was noticeable that there was a significant lag between their calling the election for Walker and Fox News’s doing so.

It is quite intriguing in retrospect how the media shifted the significance of the recall from the original issue of reducing public employees’ bargaining rights to the issue of jobs. While jobs are the critical issue to the American economy today, out-of-control government compensation of its employees must be reined in. We are certain that the mainstream media will downplay the significance of Walker's victory in terms of its effect on the public service unions, the power of the Democratic Party and the pending November presidential election. The original issue of public unions’ collective bargaining rights appears to have been downgraded when it became apparent that Walker would win by a landslide. 

Time moves in small increments but drags the past forth with it like a ghost. But the Wisconsin ruling yesterday brought America more harmoniously to its rising future. Two benchmarks proceed from the Ronald Reagan era. The first, most important, was that in the Reagan administration the ethnic people of the north, specifically European immigrants, many of them Catholic, and their European Jewish political allies, who came to America to work in factories in the 19th and early 20th centuries, made a historic shift from Democrat to Republican, leading Reagan to win 49 states in his second term. Southerners who had historically voted Democrat also made a so far permanent shift to the Republican Party to vote for Reagan. In that period the failed Patco strike in 1981 significantly changed the political culture. The old working masses, in supporting Reagan, approved the idea that union strikes might have been a necessary and proper strategy for factory workers in the pre-war period, but not for well-off, highly paid specialty workers in a new, varied economy.