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This past Saturday, Congress’s best chance to enact considerable climate legislation anytime soon received a devastating blow. Citing his concern over Democrats?? focus on immigration reform, Republican Senator Lindsay Graham withdrew his support for a climate-change bill that was supposed to be announced on Monday. Although it is certainly Sen. Graham’s right to be upset over the Democrats' decision to also begin discussions on a new immigration bill, choosing to pull support, especially when the bill was so close to being formally introduced and stood a good chance of passing...
...Despite their recent legislative victory in the health-care battle, the Democrats still stand to lose significant ground in the midterm elections. Although punishing sitting presidents with Congressional losses is ingrained in the American political tradition, recent polls suggest that voters may put an unusually severe dent in the Democrats?? current congressional majority. As the leader of his party, President Obama must take it upon himself to stop the bleeding. If he wants to protect Congressional Democrats in November, Obama must better recast his health-care pitch and correct misconceptions about his handling of the financial crisis...
...even when not invoking ethnic stereotypes, Steele’s uncontrollable logorrhea has never failed to undermine the Republican message. For example, during the debate of the Democrats?? stimulus plan, Steele audaciously proclaimed that “You and I know that in the history of mankind and womankind, government—federal, state, local, or otherwise—has never created one job. It’s destroyed a lot of them. It’s hampered a lot of them.” This is a curious statement considering that the very job that Steele...
...battered but holding on to their majority, such a change would be highly implausible. (It would be extremely difficult to muster a simple majority for the change even in the current Congress.) If the election results are non-disastrous to the point of showing the tide turning in the Democrats?? direction, but (as is inevitable) the election still reduces their already inadequate majority, then they could try to strike a deal with Republicans to change the rules, using the nuclear option as leverage...
That’s the problem. Though many certainly did not and do not understand all the provisions of the Democrats?? healthcare prescription, it was not merely misinformation or the perceived specter of socialism-in-sheep’s-clothing that made the Tea Party boil. That’s too simple. “But what is it then?” the reformers will ask. Surely even those who did not vote for the President can appreciate the merits of the program, and surely the uninsured among Tea Partiers can see what we are doing...