RedStateVT admired Andrew Breitbart greatly and will miss him. Kudos to those Liberal journalists who have - without qualifications - expressed condolences.
New Groove
President Obama has a new message: America has gotten its groove back.
...
“America’s not back,” said Stanley Greenberg, chief executive of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, a polling company that works with Democrats. “We have long-term fundamental problems with respect to personal debt, etc. If you look at our data and history, it takes a long time before job numbers translate into accepting at a personal level that things are better.”
Mr. Greenberg’s firm did a poll of 1,000 likely voters after the State of the Union speech, testing the “America is back” message compared with Mr. Obama’s other messages, and concluded that it is “by far the weakest,” according to a memo the firm put out after the poll. (NYT, 2/29/2012)
Other messages which were rejected:
I Got Osama!
Unemployment Down 1%!
Investing In Our Green Energy Future!
It's Not My Fault!
The Fix Is In
The basic answer to fixing the long-term Social Security imbalance is just to eliminate the payroll tax cap, which currently exempts all income over $110,100 a year. Do that, and you have solved the problem. (Gail Collins, NYT, 2/29/2012)
The Liberal fix to Social Security....well, actually, the Liberal fix to ANY problem. Raise taxes! Brilliant in its simplicity.
Nonforfeiture
The court’s unremarkable logic was that individuals do not forfeit their First Amendment speech rights when they come together in corporate entities or unions to speak collectively. What is the constitutional basis for saying otherwise? (George Will, Washington Post, 2/2/9/2012)
George Will on Citizens United. Which makes us think of a Fantasy Debate we would like to see on this topic: Will versus Colonel Bernie Sanders (who opposes Super PAC money, but may have to consider taking it). After one hour, we envision Sanders sputtering incoherently.
Doctor His Eyes
If Texas physician Jacques Roy turns out to be guilty of charges he conspired to defraud Medicare and Medicaid of almost $375 million, we'll know where at least $1,650 of that money went: to a political action committee affiliated with the Tea Party Express, a group opposed to the health reform law that helped nab him. (Huffington Post, 2/29/2012)
A criminal may have given money to the Tea Party. Ergo......what?
No comments:
Post a Comment