Obamacare: Unpopular as Ever
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 5th, 2014 12:08 am by HL
Our Do-Nothing Politics
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
WASHINGTON — The crisis in our political system is less about party than about horizon. To understand why, consider the issue of climate change.There is clear evidence — presented yet again in a new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report — that human activity is altering the climate. Global temperatures are rising. Emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are rising. Concentrations of these gases in the atmosphere are rising. Oceanic temperatures and levels of acidity are rising. Sea levels are rising.All this rising, however, is gradual. The impact of climate…
Dems Make Mistake Running from Obama
Jonathan Capehart, Wash Post
What happens when Democrats run away from President Obama? They completely ignore the flood of good news that should help them make the case for themselves and the president’s administration. Holding Obama at arm’s length might rub key members of the Obama coalition (read, black voters) the wrong way. That said, if those voters use such political expediency by scared Democrats as an excuse to punish them by staying home they will be doing exactly what Republicans want them to do.