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Newt Gingrich and Mitch McConnell may not realize what they've done, but they've tipped their hand. Yes, everyone knows what they are doing anyway, but they have all but opened up the books to let people see the tiny man behind the curtain. So far, the health care debate has been a lot of posturing and complaining about "waste." Well, as someone smarter than me once said, "one man's garbage is another man's treasure."You see,...

December 20, 2009   Representative John Culberson, 7th District514 Longworth Building Washington DC 20515-4307   10000 Memorial Drive, Suite 620 Houston, TX  77024-3490   Dear Representative Culberson:   Thank you for your response to my letter expressing my opinion on health care reform with another of your empty, partisan, form letters written by someone on your staff. I truly appreciate the time it took one of your minions to add me to the distribution...

To those of us who have been around the blogs for about the last 18 months this data from Public Policy Polling should come as no surprise:"PPP's newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27% granting that he won it legitimately...Overall 62% of Americans think Obama legitimately won the election to only 26% who think ACORN...

Despite the screaming headline in the New York Post, the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post, that "The Obama Magic Has Faded," last night's election results and exit polls tell a different story. A little analysis and perspective:* In the race for Congress in the 23rd district of New York, Doug Hoffman, the darling of the far-right extremists, lost. Eljefebob has the analysis on this, so I'll move on to New Jersey and Virginia.* In what...

Republican candidate for New York District 23, Dede Scozzafava, recently pulled out of the race.  She had come under withering attacks from Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman and his supporters, including Sarah Palin, for not being "conservative enough" because of her pro-choice, pro-gay marriage stance on social issues, ties to organized labor, and support for the stimulus.  Scozzafava claims her record was misrepresented and that she simply could not raise enough money to counter the...

A lot has been made of the Republican's drop in membership/identification. Apparently, only 20 percent of the voting public identifies themselves as Republicans. First, we should get a firm handle on what that means. Tell that to some people and they would immediately assume that the other 80 percent are Democrats. This has never been the case and is certainly not the case now. When you look at the Democratic numbers, you see that they...

For your viewing pleasure, this handy graphic was created by Richard Dunham over at the Houston Chronicle.  Enjoy.  I did:   I actually giggled.  And the poll is from the uber-right wing Rasmussen.  ::giggles::...

I learn something new every day, usually from people who are younger than I am and who haven't developed the jaded or cynical or hard-headed perspective that I have as an adult. This one comes from a couple of young folks I know. We'll start with my 23-y-o highly intelligent, Georgetown graduated, extremely idealistic, somewhat pretentious, annoyingly talented, raconteur nephew who writes regularly (lately at http://www.echoditto.com/blogs/bryn-bellomy) and introduced me to a new term. See wiki definition below...

We're not even a year into this administration and I'm already beginning to feel burned out.  It seems like the far left and the far right are screaming at (and past) each other so loud that any rational discussion is stillborn.Obama's health care proposals don't bend the cost curve in the right direction because they put the cart before the horse in mandating coverage before addressing cost.  (Funny how increasing demand without a concurrent change...

As a sideline to Scott's earlier blog, it turns out some of those aerial photos of the protesters that descended upon Washington, D.C. this weekend might be fake.  At least one is.  The photograph shown here was touted by Say Anything, a conservative blog, as reasonable justification for the claim of 1,000,000 attendees.    A sharp reader on the site posted the following photograph, proving that the above picture was taken before the National Museum of the American...