Public’s Alienation Isn’t Likely to Go Away
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 16th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
Public’s Alienation Isn’t Likely to Go Away
Ron Brownstein, Nat’l Journal
The electoral wave threatening congressional Democrats this fall looks at least as big as the breakers that flattened congressional Republicans in 2006 and 2008. But the odds are high that this won't be the last storm surge from an angry sea of American discontent.Democrats are facing a midterm drenching partly because they have inspired an ideological backlash among small-government voters. But their greatest problem is that they control all of Washington's levers at a time when most Americans are deeply unhappy with the country's direction. Even as voters prepare to…
Bumper Sticker Nation
Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
WASHINGTON — We are our bumper stickers. They are one way that we define ourselves and announce our various identities to the outside world: that we voted for Bush or Gore; that we're a Buckeye or a Wolverine; that we're “pro-life” or “pro-choice”; that we favor this candidate or that for school board or Congress; that our kids play soccer and won the county championship; and that we vacation in the Grand Tetons or at Disney World. These badges of self-expression span an almost-infinite range of beliefs and behaviors. They also capture one of the enduring…
Obama’s Clintonian Mosque Speech
Byron York, Washington Examiner
