Party of No More

A vote in the House to repeal the health-care overhaul would be among the GOP's top priorities. Republican leaders are also devising legislative maneuvers that might have a bigger impact, using appropriations bills and other tactics to try to undermine the administration's overhaul of health care and financial regulations and its plans to regulate greenhouse gases. GOP leaders also hope to trim spending, return unspent stimulus funds and restore sweeping tax cuts. (WSJ, 9/20/10)

Criticized by Dems as the Party of No, it turns out the Republicans do have an agenda after all.

Independents’ Day
A new comprehensive national survey shows that independent voters—who voted for Barack Obama by a 52%-to-44% margin in the 2008 presidential election—are now moving strongly in the direction of the Republican Party. The survey, conducted by Douglas E. Schoen LLC on behalf of Independent Women's Voice in late August, raises the possibility of a fundamental realignment of independent voters and the dominance of a more conservative electorate. (Douglas E. Schoen and Heather R. Higgins, WSJ, 9/20/10)

The President’s New Groove
Former President Bill Clinton says President Barack Obama is “getting his groove back” but cautions that there will be a "huge" amount of lag time before the country feels the differences the president's policies are making. Speaking Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” from Chappaqua, N.Y., Clinton chalked up much of the ire directed at the White House to the high unemployment rate. He also said Obama was disoriented by the lack of Republican support he got when he first took the White House but that he’s now “combating the opposition.” (POLITICO.com, 9/20/10)

“Getting his groove back?” “Disoriented by the lack of Republican support?” That Bubba is a sly dog! What's that expression? Damning with faint praise. We suspect this is more posturing to set Hill up for 2012.