Comments on: The Good News And The Bad News

By: Pete Spiliakos

Pete Spiliakos — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:44:53 +0000

“I found myself watching some of SNL last night. One of the “jokes” on Weekend Update was basically that the very existence of a Supreme Court that determines the constitutionality of legislation is an archaic relic on par with slavery.”

Was it a reference to Roe v. Wade? Just kidding.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:21:05 +0000

P.S. The modern MSM is one reason why I sometimes have to check my optimism. For some reason I found myself watching some of SNL last night. One of the “jokes” on Weekend Update was basically that the very existence of a Supreme Court that determines the constitutionality of legislation is an archaic relic on par with slavery. It was truly bizarre. How much the world has changed since January 2009. An entire generation is going to have no idea that only a few years ago it was considered mandatory for comedians and satirists to ridicule the president, and indeed the whole political establishment.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:12:01 +0000

Pete: The pessimist in me says we’re completely hosed economically in the short-to-medium term, but the optimist in me says we’ll make it through and get back on track. The lefties came to power in America too late to turn us into Greece, or anywhere else in Old Europe. The median voter doesn’t want to live in a bankrupt nation. I live in California for most of the last 20 years, and somehow I still think that.

By: Pete Spiliakos

Pete Spiliakos — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:22:29 +0000

Brian, I think the analogy is not between Obama and Thesz, and is really about the distance to the rope and the distance to the median voter.

By: Jim Buckalew

Jim Buckalew — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:15:45 +0000

I’m not sure i get why one would compare an aggregated polling figure with a single poll. Gallup has Obama at 45 percent. That seems like a better comparison. Single poll vs. single poll. Also people increasingly, and to my mind pathetically, are beginning to identify with whichever party is hot at the moment. When the Republicans inevitably have a good midterm these numbers will swing right back. It does create a somewhat dangerous precedent for Republicans in always needing to have stellar midterms, but the midterm electorate is always going to favor Repubkicans. Honestly, the Reliblicans are looking at a better than fifty chance of controlling all three branches of government again in 2016. All without yielding to an inch so fat to the Frumites. Who in 2008 would have predicted that would occur even in 15 years much less eight.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:31:12 +0000

The difference is that we have a real president who is a fake tough guy.

Like Churchill sleeping well knowing America was on his side, we too can remain calm since math is on ours. (And by “we” I don’t intend to necessarily include the GOP, of course.)