I think Jay Cost has got it right…
This moment is calling for a focus on the economy. That’s why Barack Obama has the top job. It’s not because of cap-and-trade, not because of health care, not because of his magnetic presence on the campaign trail – but because the economy was shrinking at a 6.1% annualized rate by Election Day. Americans were voting against recession by voting for him. This gives him a claim to a mandate, which not every President enjoys. He now has an opportunity to put his stamp on the country’s economic policy in the name of recovery. Yet he’s not doing that. He encouraged the Congress to rush through a poorly designed stimulus package that he had little involvement in; now he has focused the legislature’s time and attention on health care, which is a secondary concern right now.
I think this is a strategic mistake. My scan of the history of American politics does not indicate that we’ve been governed so much by “alignments” – the systems of 1860, 1896, 1932, 1968, and so on. Instead, I see a country that votes for growth. That’s the true American ideology. Left, right, or middle – the average American wants prosperity. When the majority party fails to deliver growth after having been elected to do so – the electoral consequences can be significant.
Republicans can defeat this health care deal if they will focus on the economy…
It ticks me off that the gay activists try and paint themselves as the new Civil Rights movement….African Americans were truly a persecuted group…They were also born that way…Being gay is a choice…This is also the reason that Prop 8 passed in California…African Americans resent the fact that gays try and represent their struggle as being equal to the African American struggle…And they are right…They are not the same…
Here they go again…overturning good policy for America so they can please gay activists…
On the same day as POTUS’s East Room ceremony marking Stonewall, an HRC official writes: ”The official word has come down from the Administration that the regulations repealing the ban on HIV positive individuals entering the country will be published in the Federal Registry tomorrow. That will start the 45 day public comment period, followed by HHS implementing the policy into law.”
I suspect he will be limited in his fight for Gay Rights during his first term…But I’m sure he will get more aggressive his second term…There is only one way to fight it…In the individual states…We have got to keep fighting for tradition marriage…
Reading from Jenny Sanford’s interview with the AP…
For Jenny Sanford, the focus is the couple’s four sons. During her interview, she wept as she displayed the stellar report cards earned by her eldest two sons at their exclusive private school in Columbia.
On the coffee table was a collection of devotional books, including a book of commentary on the Bible’s Book of Job, the story of a man whose faith God tests to the extreme.
“Parenting is the most important job there is and what Mark has done has added a serious weight to that job,” she said.
Sanford needs to resign, NOW. This guy is going to throw away his marriage and 4 sons because he wants to sit out his last 18 months as a lame duck Governor? This isn’t about politics, its about people. Real people.
If he won’t resign they ought to throw him out for abusing taxpayer money and the people’s trust.
He is so articulate…
Huckabee, who ran for president in 2008 and – like Sanford – is discussed as a potential national candidate in the future, said there’s now a “broken trust” between Sanford and his constituents.
“We’re reminded that even good people do bad things, and smart people do dumb things. What Mark did was bad and dumb. I won’t stop being his friend, but I won’t pretend that what he did was okay, ’cause it wasn’t. What he did to his wife and four sons is between them. But the broken trust with the people of South Carolina will be public and painful, and he might decide to spare his family and himself and the people by stepping down, not because of his personal behavior, but for putting his personal behavior above the responsibility for being available to govern and lead in the event of a crisis.”
While National Republicans suffer from Mad Cock Disease, Local yocals are still suffering from Foot in Mouth Disease.
Coleman had such a great (politically speaking) response to questions about his divorce. I wonder how the Huckabee Squad let him go so Hendren with his comments about SE Arkansas.
I may be a bit cynical, but with all that money Blanche has, you can bet a large fortune of it will be spent re-airing that comment should Coleman be the nominee.
O Gilbert, we long for thee.
The pictures seem to say it all…
Very disappointing that the State has decided that the local gov’t is apparently insufficient when deciding what is best for their community…
Also very disappointing is the fact that Ron Fuller thinks it is necessary to act like a fool during committee meetings…
I prefer to avoid receiving commands from Little Rock whenever possible…If a county wants to be wet, vote to be wet…But if a county wants to be dry, its a slap to the face to have some big wigs in Little Rock tell folks in my county how we need to do business…
