Tag: Politico

August 2, 2013

Recent polls showing extreme dissatisfaction with Washington and the direction the country is headed are akin to telling a drowning man he’s not a very good swimmer. He’s well aware of the fact; but while the lifeguard (in this case, elected officials) is too busy flirting and showing off to do his job, the sharks are circling, and it looks like the only way to be saved is learn how to swim fast, because no one else is coming to the rescue.
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November 4, 2012

Whatever the result of the national election, one thing is certain – independent voters in swing states who will be determining the outcome will be disappointed no matter what happens. That’s because most independents feel they are choosing from their least bad option this year. The lack of enthusiasm in this election is palpable.
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August 21, 2012

If there is one thing voters don’t forgive – especially in the mood they are in this year and with Congress at a 10 percent approval rating – it is being embarrassed by their representatives in Washington. Americans already think Congress is essentially a joke.
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June 28, 2012

Republicans are characterizing the Supreme Court health care ruling as one of the worst decisions in the court’s history. Democrats, who asserted the fate of the republic — or at least of Barack Obama’s presidency — hinged on the outcome, are celebrating. Both sides are already preparing to use it as fodder for fundraising and television ads. Less than an hour after the decision was announced, the House scheduled an essentially meaningless repeal vote for July 11 — which will play to their conservative supporters. Chances are though, despite all the ballyhoo from the left and the right, it won’t have a major effect on the outcome of the presidential race. That’s because the independent voters who most likely will decide the election are undoubtedly shrugging their shoulders.

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May 9, 2012

Another domino topples. With Sen. Richard Lugar’s defeat in the Indiana Republican primary, it is now possible to count on one hand the number of centrist GOP senators with a track record of working with Democrats on legislation.
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February 29, 2012

For those who support centrist, bipartisan solutions to our nation’s many serious challenges and who reject the idea that the only way to serve in Congress is to blindly follow the leader and toe the party line, the announcement that Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) is leaving the Senate is sad news indeed. Snowe is a pro-choice GOP moderate, a vanishing breed in Congress.
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January 22, 2010

The long-awaited Supreme Court decision on campaign spending by corporate interests was every bit as bad as public interest groups had feared it would be. They are ready for the next battle in the long war over campaign finance reform.
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April 22, 2008

When Arizona Republican John Shadegg announced earlier this year that he planned to leave Congress after seven terms, he was one of only 22 members of the majority-making GOP Class of 1994 who remained in the House of Representatives. Seventy-three new Republicans came to Congress that year in an election that was dubbed a revolution, as it upended 40 years of continuous Democratic control.
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February 4, 2008

It may look like Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have made nice, but looks can be deceiving. Just as two suitors vying for the same sweetheart may agree to stop slugging it out and shake hands, the two Democrats have put a veneer of civility over their apparent dislike of each other.
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