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...body language and zinging speeches: that the right, only recently declared to be on its last legs, is on the march. There was a buoyant certainty among the faithful that President Obama will score no major legislative victories in 2010, that Republicans will rout the opposition in November's midterm elections and that, as Dick Cheney assured the crowd, Obama will be a one-term President. (See "A Big Tent at the Conservatives' Convention...
This class meets only once a week, and for the midterm, you’ll get to do an “interview-based biographical study of an individual or group who makes things.” If you like doing things with your hands, or watching people do things with their hands, then this class is for you. | W. 4-6. Link...
This fall, Democrats will run against the Republicans as the party of “no.” If the Democrats emerge from the 2010 midterm elections battered but holding on to their majority, such a change would be highly implausible. (It would be extremely difficult to muster a simple majority for the change even in the current Congress.) If the election results are non-disastrous to the point of showing the tide turning in the Democrats’ direction, but (as is inevitable) the election still reduces their already inadequate majority, then they could try to strike...
...which is a fiscal nightmare." Being intellectually honest, of course, is often politically dangerous. With Republicans "still skittish," Wehner says, about jeopardizing their political momentum at a time when mere opposition to the President seems to be enough to propel them to gains in this year's midterm elections, Ryan may be forcing a conversation his party is unwilling to have. That's a risk that Ryan, who defied party doctrine by supporting the Troubled Asset Relief Program and the auto-industry bailout, is willing to take. "I put this out there to get the debate going and show...
...under way. But if these competing visions indicate a coming struggle for the soul of the party, they also indicate optimism, as groups vie to put their imprimatur on the movement at a time when Congress is paralyzed by gridlock, the Obama Administration's agenda is sputtering, and the midterm elections are shaping up as a favorable cycle for Republicans. Says Bozell: "So much for all those articles about conservatism being dead...