... (Gingrich) urged Republicans to support the Bush administration’s expansion of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit... (NYT, 12/16/2011)
It is Gingrich's turn in the New York Times's "War on Republican Candidates" and so we get this one. We are never quite sure where Liberals are coming from when they criticize Bush for the Medicare prescription drug benefit. They all wanted it and yet, they will never laud him for this expansion of the welfare state, straight out of their playbook.
Sympathies
From the opening moment, the seven Republican candidates faced a series of questions on their biggest vulnerabilities, a tough, year-end parting gift from the moderators of Fox News, a network that has a lineup of sympathetic opinion hosts, but whose news anchors have pulled no punches on Republican candidates in debates and interviews. (NYT, 12/16/2011)
Wow, the Times admits that Fox news people have been objective.
Conveyance
The pipeline would create thousands of new jobs, both immediately and downstream, which is why the Teamsters and other unions support it. But Mr. Obama's green financiers see the pipeline as a conveyor of evil carbon, and so the President recently postponed any decision past the election into 2013. Now, that's economic leadership. (WSJ, 12/16/2011)
So will the Teamsters leadership direct the rank and file to vote against Obama and if not, why not?
First Timers
For the first time, a majority of Americans say President Barack Obama should be voted out of the White House next year, despite a small increase in the number of people who say the country’s economic outlook is improving, a new poll shows. (Politico.com, 12/16/2011)
Just an idea, but given that the polls are now unanimous let's skip the Dem vs. Repub general election and replace it with a nationwide election to pick the president from among the Republican contenders. What do you say?
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