Jim Webb: Why Reagan Democrats Still Matter
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 9th, 2010 5:31 am by HL
Jim Webb: Why Reagan Democrats Still Matter
David Paul Kuhn, RCP
Jim Webb went to the White House last September. The Virginia senator was meeting with the president to discuss Guantanamo detainees. The conversation soon shifted to healthcare. “I told him this was going to be a disaster,” Webb recalls. “The president believed it was all going to work out.”Democratic leaders broadly believed it was all going to work out. The stimulus, healthcare, cap and trade. Americans were to come around to the left side. Receive news alertsWe're talking about why voters didn't come around. Webb is weighing my report the morning after the…
It’s the Right Move for Pelosi to Stay as Leader
Welcome to Obama’s Worst Week Yet
Michael Goodwin, New York Post
He took a “shellacking,” a 2012 poll shows him trailing two Republicans, and losing candidates in his own party are griping about his “tone deaf” leadership.And the Mad Hatter, Nancy Pelosi, refuses to exit quietly. Welcome to Barack Obama's worst week in the Oval Office.It started with Halloween and ended with Obama exposed as a diminished and damaged president. Merely listing his problems doesn't do justice to his predicament.