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Stossel: Michelle Berry runs a day-care business out of her home in Flint, MI. She thought that she owned her own business, but Berry's been told she is now a government employee and union member. It's not voluntary. Suddenly, Berry and 40,000 other Michigan private day-care providers have learned that union dues are being taken out of the child-care subsidies the state sends them. The "union" is a creation of AFSCME, the government workers union, and the United Auto Workers.
So let me get this straight - Obama winning is because voters are mad at George Bush. Obama losing is also because voters are mad at George Bush. It's hard to argue with that logic because anyone that promotes it is nuts.
According to Obama's logic the loss has nothing to do with:
What a dork. Make that conceded stuck up Marxist dork.
Here’s an extra large order of crazy sprinkled with nuts over at The Huffington Post.
It took more than half a decade, countless American and Iraqi deaths in a war based on lies, a sinking economy and the drowning of an American city to finally kill Bush-Cheney-Rove's dream of a conservative realignment.
Democrats, controlling the White House and both houses of Congress, have managed to kill their own dream of dominance in 12 months.
How did it happen?
Theories abound, but two diametrically opposed narratives have taken hold:
The first, promulgated by conservatives, is that the new administration has moved too far to the left and alienated a large swath of independent and moderate voters.
The second, pushed by progressive activists and bloggers, is that the administration hasn't been true enough to fundamental Democratic principles, has embraced some of Bush's worst excesses on civil liberties, and has ditched popular ideas (like the public option) in favor of watered down centrist policies, thus looking weak and ineffectual.
The conservative argument is unpersuasive. After years of a systematic effort by the right to use Overton-style tactics to radicalize our national discourse, the center has moved so far right that the left is barely recognizable. With a military surge in Afghanistan, a denuded health insurance bill limping through Congress, Bush-era detainee policies reinforced, a deflated climate summit, and a windfall year for bankers, among other things, it's almost ludicrous to claim that the new administration is run by a gang of lefties.
And here’s one of the best parts:
That summed up how I felt at the time. I got a lot of heat when I wrote it, but I stand by every word.
Progressive bloggers have been jumping up and down, yelling at their Democratic leaders that the path of compromise and pragmatism only goes so far. The limit is when you start compromising away your core values.
I sincerely hope that's the lesson learned today.
Comprise? What compromise? The Democratic leadership in Congress shut out the Republicans from meetings regarding all major legislation. Pelosi and Obama even broke Obama’s campaign pledge to have C-SPAN in the room covering the meetings.
Most of the media is pointing to the new campaign tell all book titled "Game Change" that mentions some statements about Barack Obama made by U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D - NV). Don't fall for that one.
First and foremost so called "racial" statements do not count if you are a Democrat or one of Obama's friends (see Rev. Wright). You can see that here when Obama called for Don Imus to be fired and here when he called for Trent Lott to be fired or here when he gave Reverend Wright a pass. So no it's not about the usual Race cards.
This "race" story is about Harry Reid's re-election race for the U.S. Senate. The race for Harry Reid's Senate seat in 2010 is going to at best close as he has a 53% disaproval rating among voters. Story here. Reid is in trouble and the numbers show that fact everywhere.
In the last month we have seen a long time powerful democratic leader in the U.S. Senate, Chris Dodd, announce that he will retire as well as Byron Dorgan. Both were losing badly in the polls Story here.
Embattled Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd was all but forced to quit, and North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan also ditched his re-election effort in the face of a difficult race. Dodd's announcement Wednesday may actually save the Democrats' hold on his seat — the party quickly recruited a stronger candidate — but Dorgan's retirement may cost the party a seat in his Republican-leaning state. And that would mean the loss of a critical 60th vote in the Senate.
Dodd was about to lose an election - as in down in flames. His "retirement" gives the Democrats a fresh faced to run. The same goes for other races as well. Real Clear Politics has a breakdown of the recent poll numbers here for U.S. Senate elections.
So is the DNC's political machine behind the big push in the media to talk about Reid's statements? I say yes as they are prepping to push Harry Reid out once the Obamacare bill is passed. That bill still has too many backroom deals needed to get done so they can't just dump the Senate Majority Leader - right now.
The Obama Chicago political machine is in charge now and Reid either doesn't realize that he's next on the chopping block. Maybe it's just that he hopes for a bounce in the polls once Obamacare is passed and is out of the news. Either way he must realize that his polling numbers are very low and the machine can't risk a lost U.S. Senate seat if they are to pass an amnesty bill in time for the 2012 election.
Democrats in Massachusetts have a plan in place to keep Scott Brown from getting to the U.S. Senate in time to vote on Obamacare if he wins. Story here. But legislation that will impact the 2012 election, such as amnesty and cap and trade, will require that other democrats in office get thrown under the bus to help Obama's chances of not losing the Senate.
So yes the story of the day is about race - it's just not the one the media is selling to you.
So far, the only major commentary from the Right on the legislative war between UPS and FedEx has been linked to the American Conservative Union’s attempts to woo business from FedEx, in part by offering for sale opinion columns by the ACU’s board members (see here for the ACU response).
Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie takes us inside the real issues of the battle between the delivery giants, satirizing the current UPS “whiteboard” ad campaign, and exposing the real villain of the issue — which is neither UPS nor FedEx. Instead, just as with most of the economic messes of the last few years, we have the federal government meddling in the marketplace once again:
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