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Is anyone surprised by this?
Posted: October 7, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: gulf oil spill, reality
I understand why Stacy likes Dave Weigel so much…
Posted: October 6, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: conservatism fights back, dave weigel, david frum, don't be drinking when you read this, just deserts, reality, sam tanenhaus
The Great Recession has done wonders for the Republican Party. Two years after being tossed out of power at every level, it’s about to waltz right back in, kicking aside the corpses of Democrats foolish enough to go along with the designs of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. This is good news for most conservatives. It’s slightly worse news for a smaller group of conservatives—namely, the ones who spent the end of the ’00s explaining why a Republican comeback like this was not really possible.
This piece is absolutely classic as all those like Sam Tanenhaus who’s book did so good on Amazon but somehow can’t wrap their head around what has happened.
Of course, to the horror of the smart set, this is exactly what is happening. The conservative base looked at any attempt to answer the Democrats on policy as a cave-in to socialism. When they’re making the case for their research, Douthat and Salam acknowledge that reality. But they argue that Republicans have been using their key insights anyway and that the hot rhetoric of the GOP obscures what actually happened.
Yup all those tea party people had nothing to do with it.
Read the whole thing, but don’t be drinking while you do.
Everyone will be required to use Obamacare…
Posted: October 6, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: irony, McDonalds, obamacare
…except those who we let off the hook.
Old promise: Everyone gets to keep their health insurance.
New promise: You can keep your health insurance…if you BEG hard enough for an Obamacare waiver.
Anyone surprised by this stuff just plain didn’t pay attention.
The Massachusetts 6th district just got a whole lot more interesting
Posted: October 5, 2010 by datechguy in congress, elections, opinion/newsTags: 2010 elections, bill hudak, election 2010, john tierney, ma-6, massachusetts elections, patrice tierney
Just before I went to Blogcon I said this about Bill Hudak:
Hudak is an excellent speaker who did something that instantly made me like him. He started to run MONTHS before Scott Brown was elected and way before anyone thought the democrats were in trouble.
One of the advantages of standing up and fighting rather than tamely giving up is you get the chance to take advantage of stuff like this:
The wife of US Representative John F. Tierney is poised to plead guilty tomorrow to federal tax charges for managing a bank account that her brother allegedly used to deposit millions of dollars in illegal gambling profits he raked in from an offshore sports betting operation in Antigua.
Patrice Tierney, 59, who is married to the Salem Democrat, is charged with four counts of aiding and abetting the filing of false tax returns by her brother, Robert Eremian, of St. John’s, Antigua.
Bill Hudak’s internal polls already showed Tierney below 50% (bad news for an incumbent, incredible for a dem in Massachusetts) He’s been running hard and the media has been hitting him for a while but even places like the Globe are now see trouble:
You can crow all you want about some kooky yard sign of the president in a turban or whatever but this is a bit more serious to the tune of, oh, seven million dollars. Hudak may be painted as a wing nut – and rightfully so – but he doesn’t have any immediate ties to serious law breaking like this. Keep it mind that Tierney voted against the internet gambling ban while all of this was going on.
For the Globe that’s practically an endorsement
My film of Hudak is here
If there was ever a time to kick in for him on ma-6 it’s now.
I still say at least 3 seats in this state will turn this election. The NYT thinks that’s impossible so I feel really good about it.
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