Archive for August, 2011
Constituent Backlash
Town halls have just not been the same since the fiery Republican talking-points inspired health care rage summer of 2009. Instead of mostly calm civic discourse, they now are predominately characterized by wild screams, hoots, and hollers regardless of the elected officials’ political orientation. Lately, the tides been turning against Republican Congressmembers who, according to [...]
A friendly reminder from the New York Times about the Tea Party
The New York Times ran a scathing Op-Ed piece today called “Crashing the Tea Party” that examines the political makeup of voters who identify themselves with the Tea Party. Using longitudinal polling data that looked at voters’ political attitudes during 2006 and 2011, the writers found that the Tea Party was not – Spoiler Alert! [...]
Roping Em In
Poll by Rasmussen: The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary voters, taken Monday night, finds Perry with 29% support. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, earns 18% of the vote, while Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who won the high-profile Ames Straw Poll [...]
If they don’t like you, why bother?
So Paul Ryan and a handful of other Republican Congressman are opting out of town hall meetings during the August recess. From Politico: It will cost $15 to ask Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) a question in person during the August congressional recess. The House Budget Committee chairman isn’t holding any face-to-face open-to-the-public town hall meetings [...]
The Gloves Come Off During The Republican Presidential Debate
Last night during the Republican Presidential Debate in Iowa, we got a rare look at how Fox News reacts once they lose their ability to play the role of Republican candidate puppeteers. The first instance of this occurred after Chris Wallace asked Tim Pawlenty about whether he believed Michele Bachmann was unfit “to serve President [...]
Walking into Poles
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Yes, You Must Care
Why should we care about the S&P downgrade? Some will say (and already have said) we should not care and for a lot of a good reasons. But none of those reasons change the fact that this is has been the number one story this weekend and will likely continue to be a top story throughout the [...]
The Solvency Deficit
After the first initial of weeks of talks everyone became a little unsettled by the very nature of what we were negotiating over. Washington insiders quickly realized everything had been put on the line, and that the possibility for default was a real one. The politics were big enough to destroy careers and the “drop [...]