Archive for October 2011
Dems Have $$, Too
Now Republicans are whining about elections being for sale. A couple of weeks ago, Democrats were whining about Art Pope “buying” North Carolina. I suggested they stop whining and start winning by finding their own deep pockets. It looks like the deep pockets found them. John Frank reports in the N&O that…
Read MoreResponding to Carter
Now Carter’s gone to meddling. So I feel compelled to depart from my preference to avoid writing about clients. His October 24 blog, “The Vanishing Cuts,” takes aim at DHHS Secretary Lanier Cansler – again. His collateral targets include people who run and live in adult-care homes (my clients). Here’s the other side…
Read MoreCy Lynn
The Hunt Alumni lost one of our friends last week. Cy Lynn died. Here’s the N&O obit. Cy was public affairs director at DOT in Hunt I and II. He handled paid media in Hunt’s 1980 reelection campaign. He went on to work for the community colleges and then the Chamber of Commerce in…
Read MoreSound Familiar?
The more things change…the more they stay the same. The European Union has come up with a master-plan to cure the Greek debt crisis and avoid financial Armageddon. The European Bankers are going to eat half (instead of all) of their bad Greek loans. Then the Euro-Union is going to set up a…
Read MoreFinding a Dark Lining
The stock market goes up 340 points. It may go up more in October than in any month in 25 years. It even looks like the economy is growing rather than going into another recession. Great news, right? No. The L.A. Times finds the rat turd in the Dow Jones Index sugar bowl:…
Read MoreA Sure-Fire Way…
It’s a near-perfect metaphor: We’ve got Congress in debt up to its eyeballs and the President’s cutting the cost of government subsidized student loans. It’s classic. And unstoppable. Just before the election Obama’s going to make millions of new friends: He’s going to lower their student loan debts by increasing the government debts…
Read MoreDavid Brooks Is Wrong
A highlight of reading The New York Times on Tuesdays and Fridays is David Brooks’ columns. He’s intelligent, interesting and insightful. But he’s all wrong (“The Fighter Fallacy”) when he says President Obama is all wrong to come out swinging against Republicans. He can’t win that way, Brooks says. Yes, he can. …
Read MoreBirth of the Boaters
A Republican friend tells me that Florida Senator Marco Rubio is the GOP’s star of the future: the perfect 2012 running and/or perfect candidate for President in 2016. So – to go with the Birther movement that questions whether President Obama is really from around here – Democrats need to launch a Boater movement…
Read MoreDebating Debates
Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post opined that debates are “no way to pick a President.” I beg to differ. Her opinion is rooted in a media misunderstanding of what voters look for in debates. She wrote: “Now we judge a candidate’s worthiness for public office as much according to his stage performance as…
Read MoreFrom China With Love
Governor Perdue reached across the Pacific to Washington last week to make a point that signals her 2012 strategy: Republicans are hurting education. While she was in China, her office sent a letter to Senators Hagan and Burr endorsing “The Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act.” She wrote that the bill,…
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