Why The Sequester Is Worse Now Than It Will Be After It Happens
Original Post: Why The Sequester Is Worse Now Than It Will Be After It Happens.Welcome Dr. Gina Show Listeners! Republicans should announce “the sequester won’t be so bad” and shut up, and science...
View ArticleWhy GOP Pandering to Young Voters Backfires
Original Post: Why GOP Pandering to Young Voters Backfires.Marco Rubio gave the Republican response to the State of the Union address for two reasons. First, Rubio’s Cuban, and the GOP wants to court...
View ArticleThe Best Grilling Of Bernanke Came From Senator Elizabeth Warren And...
Original Post: The Best Grilling Of Bernanke Came From Senator Elizabeth Warren And Republicans Should Be Ashamed.I agree with Republican Senator Corker that inflation is a danger in the future. But...
View ArticleRepublicans Lose Because They Don’t Attract Enough Conservatives
Original Post: Republicans Lose Because They Don’t Attract Enough Conservatives.For 20 years, the Battleground Poll of States (now the Politico/GW Battleground Poll) showed a freakish consistency about...
View ArticleTrust Is a Bigger Problem for GOP Than Marketing
Original Post: Trust Is a Bigger Problem for GOP Than Marketing.The GOP’s self-examination on the 2012 election debacle rightly identifies marketing and messaging and lack of a ground game as...
View ArticleHow Missouri Republicans Made Jay Nixon Look Like a Statesman
Original Post: How Missouri Republicans Made Jay Nixon Look Like a Statesman. You know how reckless and tone-deaf Obama is about Army deserters? Missouri’s House and Senate Republican leaders are just...
View ArticleDo Republican elites know something they’re not telling?
Original Post: Do Republican elites know something they’re not telling?. Reading two excellent articles by Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight (here and here), I remembered a thought that passed through my...
View ArticleTrump knocks Rubio out of the news cycle
Original Post: Trump knocks Rubio out of the news cycle. That was a strategic kill-shot, to borrow Scott Adams’s word. And it changes everything for conservatives. After a so-so debate performance and...
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