Expecting To Fly

Matter Of Facts
“What I’ve heard from people you might not expect to hear it from ... is if they bring to the Senate a [deal] that really comes down heavy on working families and children and the elderly and they expect me to matter-of-factly vote for it, they’ll have another thing coming,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Friday morning. (Washington Post, 7/8/2011)


Let's all play the Bernie game!  Goes like this: "if they bring (fill in the blank) to the Senate a deal that really comes down heavy on working families and children and the elderly and they expect me to matter-of-factly vote for it, they'll have another thing coming."  Sample topics include: a defense appropriations bill, a tax cut, funding for anything other than increased entitlements, etc.  


Gloom and Doom
Friday’s gloomy jobs report has put President Obama at increasing risk of losing what could be one of the strongest arguments for his reelection: that he turned around an economy in rapid decline and ushered in a vibrant recovery.(Washington Post, 7/8/2011)


This one gave us pause.  Is the implication that - up until this pesky jobs report - Obama had presided over a vibrant recovery?  What exactly are the strongest arguments for Obama's reelection.  We're just not seeing 'em.


Generic Victory
If the election were held today, President Obama would get only 56 percent of the Jewish vote against a generic Republican candidate, down from the 78 percent he won in 2008 and less than the 74 percent John Kerry received in 2004. (Dick Morris,7/5/2011)


We can only hope that Obama's former supporters in the Jewish community and on Wall Street (to name a couple) remember at voting time that he has stiffed them.