The Man Responsible for Carly’s Sheep and Steve’s FBI Referral
I have investigated the situation, and I believe I have found the man responsible for Carly Fiorina’s strange sheep ad and Steve Poizner’s bizarre demand for federal law enforcement investigation of his rival Meg Whitman’s attempts to get him to abandon the race.
The man responsible for this madness is, I am sad to report, me.
Well, not just me, but me and people like me. Journalists with short attention spans, who are bored by most of what goes on in the U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races, and have trouble finding editors who want to hear about the relatively routine policy and political debates in both contests. As a result, we rarely write about what’s happening in these races.
That leaves candidates desperate for media attention. And so, quite rationally, they realize that the only way to rouse me from my slumber is to do something a bit bizarre.
Republican Voters’ Choice of Nominees Will Set the Stage for Victory
A wave is building in American politics. Whether that wave produces a second Republican Revolution, or a more mild course correction for the nation’s politics, remains to be seen. In any case, victory for the GOP in November hinges on the Republican Party’s success in convincing the American people it is a viable, preferred alternative to the leadership and direction offered by Barack Obama’s Democratic Party.
History is clearly on the side of the GOP. In the last 12 mid-term elections, the party not holding the White House has enjoyed a net gain in Congress and state legislatures in 10 of them. The magnitude of the net gain has historically been in inverse proportion to the President’s approval rating, and President Obama’s is in the tank and likely to remain there. Historically Presidents enjoy little improvement in their public approval during the second year of their term.
How best to maximize the party’s opportunity for victory and build on the party’s recent successes in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts was a major focus of last week’s meeting of the Republican National Committee in Hawaii.
Single Payer Healthcare Reform is the Wrong Prescription for California
One need not be a pollster or political scientist to conclude
that with each passing day, California voters have become increasingly wary and
frustrated with government’s (in)ability to get it right. Once again, our state faces a
multibillion dollar deficit and the news will not get better for many years to
come.
How are taxpayers expected to have any faith that the very
politicians and bureaucrats that have mismanaged government agencies,
departments and budgets time after time would be any more competent assuming
and managing something as critically important as healthcare?
The
sad but proven truth is that government-run healthcare will add more
bureaucracy and a hefty price tag to California taxpayers, small businesses and
jobs. That is why the National
Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) so strongly opposed a recent
single-payer proposal in the form of Senate Bill 810 (Leno).
Voter Support for AB 32 Shrinks
A new poll by the AB 32 Implementation Group showed voter support for California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) has dramatically declined. After hearing arguments for and against the measure, 56% of voters approved of AB 32 and 40% opposed.
The fact AB 32 won’t have any measurable impact on reducing global warming, its price tag of billions of dollars in higher energy costs and hidden tax increases, and its impact on jobs drove voter opposition to the measure.
Voters were particularly concerned about the conclusions from the California Small Business Roundtable’s study of the impact of AB 32 on small business in California. This study found that AB 32 would cost the average small business in California about $50,000 per year and would destroy more than one million California jobs.