Nostos

Specifics
Today, specifically, the youngest potential voters are more likely than their older peers to think it is important to protect individual liberties from government, the Harvard data suggest, and less likely to think it is important to tackle things like climate change, health care or immigration. (NYT, 7/1/2012)


There is hope for the younger generation after all!


Maneuvers
Public sector unions have such an image problem that some Democratic politicians are maneuvering to maintain their distance, even though union war chests and foot soldiers are often pivotal to their victories. (NYT, 6/21/2012)


So it is true after all. Union workers and union dues fuel the Democrat Party....which, in turn, rewards them with ever more generous salaries and benefits funded by the taxpayer.


Vital Signs
President Barack Obama has attacked Gov. Mitt Romney's record in the private equity industry as CEO of Bain Capital. But ten years ago, as he struggled to raise funds for his long-shot U.S. Senate campaign, then-State Senator Obama decided to embrace the private equity industry and its wealthy Chicago political donors. At one point, Obama even sponsored a resolution in the Illinois Senate calling calling private equity firms like Bain "the best opportunity for long-term economic vitality" and for "the creation of jobs." (Breitbart.com, 7/2/2012)


Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers are just going to have a field day running the ads showing Obama speaking out of both sides of his mouth on executive privilege, health care taxes, venture capital, campaign finance, the unemployment rate and a whole host of other things.