Over at left-of-center Mother Jones magazine, Jonathan Stein and Nick Baumann argue that “the far right handed Dems a 60-vote majority.” Stein and Baumann continue: The Republican Party has moved dramatically rightward in the age of Obama, and allowed people like Newt Gingrich, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sarah Palin to become its [...]
Posts on ‘May 5th, 2009’
The Afghan Counter-Terror Plan and Republican Messaging
Traditionally, citizens have higher trust in Democrats to handle the economy and in Republicans to handle foreign policy and social issues, according to polls. So with every day of isolated bounces in the Dow or one-day bursts of home purchases being turned into week-long stories on a supposed recovery, we may need to come to [...]
Draft Ridge and Castle for 2010 Senate Races
Besides affirming his own self-serving nature, if there is one thing that Senator Arlen Specter’s defection to the Democratic Party has taught Republicans, it’s that the GOP must work to portray itself once again as much as a party of the center-right as it is of the right. This is true especially in the Northeast, [...]