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June 24th, 2011
What do President Barak Obama and Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton have in common? Quite a lot.
Both are liberal Democrats. Both are faced with GOP-controlled legislatures. (Obama has the Senate on his side, at least.)
And both are willing to go balls-to-the-wall on a government shutdown because they’d rather raise taxes than cut spending.
Huh?
Oh yeah. It’s called the Dance of the one-termers.
Obama is currently losing to just about any Republican a pollster can line up against him, except maybe Gerald Ford, who has the excuse of being deceased. Even Sarah Palin in a Beyond Nice hot tub covers the spread against Obama.
As long as the economy continues to spiral downward, expect his tax-hike insistence to be the final nail in his re-election bid, hung up on the wall of history.
As for Gov. Dayton, if Michelle Bachmann doesn’t end up as the next vice-president of the United States, look for her to be the next Governor of Minnesota, replacing Dayton in 2014. It can’t happen soon enough.
By Craig Hansen • Posted in
Election 2012 •
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June 5th, 2011
At least one Jewish Democrat thinks President Obama could lose broad support among one of his key constituencies in 2012: Jewish voters. And this is someone who ought to know, because he’s both Jewish and a Democrat: former NYC Mayor Ed Koch.
With Obama’s frequent outright hostility toward popular Israeli president and outspoken conservative, Binyamin Netanyahu, as well as his recent blunders in handling Middle East affairs, Koch think Jewish disappointment in Obama could lead to a higher-than-usual number of Jewish voters casting their ballots for the GOP, so long as the GOP doesn’t nominate someone who’s even worse on Israel.
But don’t worry about that, folks: Mike Huckabee has already said he’s not going to run, and it’s highly unlikely Ron Paul will prevail. While I wouldn’t bet my guaranteed issue life insurance on a massive defection, the possibility of a significant shift is not out of the question.
Good call, Mayor Koch!
By Craig Hansen • Posted in
Democrats,
Election 2012 •
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June 5th, 2011
Real estate mogul Donald Trump may not be running for the White House as a Republican, but has indicated he may jump into the race late as an independent, “if the Republicans do a terrible job as they have been doing in choosing the wrong person.”
The troubling aspect of this quote is that no one knows Trump’s personal political agenda because until he recently declared himself a Republican, he’d spent most of his adult life making nice with as many Democrats as Republicans.
So does Trump want a moderate like McCain? Does he want a new Reagan? No one knows.
A Trump third-party candidacy is the one nightmare scenario that could ensure that Barack Obama stays in office another four years. As Paul Ryan said of Newt Gingrich, “With allies like this, who needs Democrats?”
Personally, I would much rather get a fistful of lowe’s coupons than entertain a Trump third-party run. They’d be worth a lot more, and I’d be far more certain to end up with something I actually wanted.
By Craig Hansen • Posted in
Election 2012 •
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June 5th, 2011
Bank of America recently tried to foreclose on the house of Florida couple, and when the couple protested, they prevailed in court. Why? Because Maurenn Nyergers and her husband had paid for their home in full, in cash, and had never carried a mortgage.
After the judge ruled in their favor, he ordered Bank of America to pay the couple’s legal fees. When they failed to do so after five months, the court foreclosed … on Bank of America.
This sounds like an urban legend or some other sort of Internet fable too ironic and sweet to be true, but here’s a link to the actual story, which ran on WFMY Channel 2 in Florida.
Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. You could give me 100 eotech magnifiers and I’m not sure I’d be quite as tickled as I am by this story.
By Craig Hansen • Posted in
Opinion •
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