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Does Bush Still Burden Ohio GOP?
I have an article on the subject over at Human Events: Can George W. Bush still affect the outcomes of elections in 2010? Democrats clearly think so in the battle for an open Senate seat in Ohio. Rob Portman, former congressman and cabinet official under George W. Bush, is the Republican frontrunner in the race [...]
Great Minds and all that
I write a story on health care and how Mary Jo Kilroy thinks you are stupid. Rich Lowry writes a column: Stupid Nation: Just how stupid do they think we are? The Obama team is saddled with a foundering health-care strategy. But it has a fallback plan — relying on the sheer dimwitted gullibility of [...]
Morning Links
I am busy with some new projects so posting might be light as I get organized and up to speed but I wanted to leave you a few links to read this morning. –> New Ohio legislation goes to extraordinary measures to enable voter fraud 3BP writer Johnny Utah is back with a special report [...]
First rule of holes; cartoon edition
For those of you who found the car trip video too long. Here it is in one cartoon:
Monday afternoon links
Some links you should be reading if you haven’t already: Lee Fisher’s Research Dumping (Or, How Liberals Finally Decided to Care about Joe “the Plumber”) Driehaus (of all people) Disses Republican Integrity on Cap and Tax Cynicism: Obama’s hidden enemy
Mid-Morning Links
–>Gov. Strickland’s approval rating plummets but voters love gambling in new poll Gov. Ted Strickland’s approval rating has plummeted over the past two months, with 46 percent of the state’s voters giving him a thumbs up compared to 57 percent in early May, according to a poll released today by Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. Pollsters [...]
Morning Links: Dueling Hearings
–> Dueling hearings: slots vs. more cuts As Ohio enters its second day with an interim state budget, the political gamesmanship has escalated with dueling hearings today in an increasingly partisan stalemate. Republican Senate President Bill M. Harris created a five-senator task force to examine the viability of Gov. Ted Strickland’s plan to raise $933 [...]
Dueling Ohio Politics Hubs
Not really, but I like the headline. In case you aren’t aware of it, I wanted to let you know about the Ohio Politics Hub at Right Ohio. Matt discussed the idea with me and I assured him he wasn’t stealing any of my thunder by creating his own. When I put up the OPO [...]
Morning Links
Media –> Stalemate continues as interim budget is signed Like many Ohioans, state government now is living paycheck to paycheck. For how long is anybody’s guess. With the new fiscal year starting today, Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland and Senate President Bill M. Harris, an Ashland Republican, have drawn lines in the sand over the placement [...]
Friday Morning Links
–> Ohio budget deal appears near as House-Senate committee schedules meeting for Saturday As Gov. Ted Strickland and top legislative leaders worked behind closed doors to reach a budget agreement, a House-Senate committee scheduled a public meeting for Saturday morning — a move that would normally signal that a deal is imminent. But this is [...]
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