Stupak Amendment Controversy Demonstrates Emptiness of Democratic Rhetoric.
It has now been more than a week since the U.S. House of Representatives passed sweeping health care reform legislation. Yet, with what has been written about the bill since that time, one might think it was still being debated. Though there are many faults in the legislation, one issue therein seems to be sustaining press interest; a provision in the legislation restricting abortion funding. Known as the Stupak Amendment for its author, Democratic member of Congress Bart Stupak (D-MI)

Victories scored Tuesday present possibilities for the future of the Republican Party
The big news from Tuesday this week came with the announcements of gubernatorial wins for the Republican Party in both Virginia and New Jersey. While both of these states voted for President Obama last year, and are represented by Democratic senators in Washington, the former has traditionally leaned Republican in presidential contests, only going Democratic three times since the end of World War II. Independent New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also stood as the Republican nominee in

The Youth Vote and the 2009 Elections
Sarah Burris of Future Majority beats me to the punch in rebutting a blog post about a “Rising Tide of the GOP Youth,” as described by The Weekly Standard’s Rachel Hoff. Burris writes: First, while Rachel is right to congratulate McDonnell for his campaign’s youth outreach, I hardly think it has anything to do with young voters having gone to the GOP… This doesn’t mean young voters have gone GOP, it means that when you put forth the eff

Deeds Gets Dirty, Doesn’t Win Anyway
Tuesday will mark the end of the Virginia Governor’s race and one would hope an end to statewide mudslinging. But if this rather dirty election campaign has taught us anything, it is that the type of mud that gets thrown around matters. Republican Bob McDonnell’s mud has been substantive. He has labeled his Democratic adversary, Creigh Deeds, a “tax and spend liberal” because Deeds – get this – has actually proposed to raise taxes during an economic meltdown. Deeds’ would argue McDonnell is obsessed with this fact, but at least McDonnell is arguing about something in the his opponent’s platform. Besides that, the McDonnell campaign has been primarily about Bob McD

Approaching Afghanistan Appropriately
The news of the past week has shown that President Obama does not take well to criticism. If the Fox News flare-up was not enough to suggest this, then certainly the White House’s terse response to criticism from the Associated Press of dubious stimulus-related job claims was. Thus, one is left with reasons to worry about the Obama strategy to deal with Afghanistan. Indeed, President Obama could follow the