Category Archives: Symbols
Staying Power
Nancy Pelosi seems to think nothing is changing except her job title – from “Speaker of the House” to “Minority Leader”. Not all members of her party are going with the flow. Mike Quigley of Illinois tells the Boston Globe she’s “politically toxic”.
My political pledge – no more melting metaphors. UPDATE: Here’s a good explainer by David Broder about how the Democratic leadership changed its rules to avoid change.
Failure to Communicate
Maybe a 55th speech on Obamacare would have set us straight. The Democrats blamed their problems on poor communication to the end.
Prop Refuses to Serve as Prop
Update:
Politicians are keeping their distance from the president these days. When the presidential seal fell from his podium he made a self-deprecating joke that even it didn’t want to appear on stage with him.
No he didn’t. President Obama doesn’t do self-deprecating. He said, “all of you know who I am…but there’s somebody back there who is really nervous right now“. Yes, Mr. President, we all fear you.
Yesterday even Walter Mondale piled on, telling him to lose the “idiot boards”.
Anchors Away
I’ve heard that when your opponent is self-destructing, the best thing to do is get out of the way. Unless you’re a Republican, in which case, you’ll probably want to begin a movement to repeal the 14th amendment. The most likely outcome of that effort according to Linda Chavez is no Hispanic Republicans. She makes her case in a WSJ column. You may need a subscription, but I was able to access the whole thing here. Atlantic Wire has a brief summary here. And Chavez explains in this JWR column.
The Mother Of All Clean-Ups
How do you lose 200 million gallons of oil? Apparently Mother Nature cleaned it up. Maybe she’ll sell it on the spot market.
