McConnell’s Bad Week Isn’t Fatal
There’s a lot of chortling going on right now among Democrats about Mitch McConnell, and who can blame them? The contretemps over the Senate minority leader’s campaign manager saying he will be...
View ArticleEven in KY, Focus Is Obama, Not McConnell
In a week in which Democrats have already received a harsh wake-up call about the nature of the 2014 midterms in the form of a stunning loss in the special election for Florida’s 13th Congressional...
View ArticleCan the GOP Define Dem Senate Challengers?
Today’s primaries in six states across the nation are providing a multiplicity of narratives, but the most popular is the one in which the Tea Party is being depicted as the big loser. If polls are...
View ArticleThe “War on Women” and the Democrats’ Kentucky Cheap Shots
Alison Lundergan Grimes is running for the Senate in an attempt to unseat the upper chamber’s Republican leader, and she has a message for the voters: she’s a she. As the Washington Post reports: Often...
View ArticleThe Casualties of Obama’s War on Coal
This week President Obama is expected to announce new regulations on carbon emissions that will have a potentially devastating impact on America’s more than 600 coal-fired power plants. The move was...
View ArticleHow Deep the Dome, Ms. Grimes?
The news out of the Middle East is pretty grim these days. But it is possible to find some humor even in the midst of war. For that we can thank Kentucky Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes who told the...
View ArticleObama Is Killing Dems’ Senate Hopes
Heading into the 2014 campaign, most analysts agreed that control of the U.S. Senate hinged on the survival of a few key red state Democrats and the one vulnerable Republican incumbent: Minority Leader...
View ArticlePlanes, Buses, and Failing Dem Campaigns
This has not been a good week for Democrats running for the Senate. But rather than their problems being focused on the congressional party’s difficult relationship with President Obama or the burden...
View ArticleMcConnell: Obstructionist or a Dealmaker?
Politico made quite a stir last week when it published an interview with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in which he suggested that his main priority if Republicans win a majority this November...
View Article‘Mansplaining’ Dumbs Down Dems’ Fake War on Women
The latest round of polling from Senate races around the country provides Democrats desperate to hold onto control of the Upper House with little comfort. Not only are they falling behind more states...
View ArticleAlison Grimes Can’t Hide From Obama
It is to be hoped that by the end of the day, Alison Lundergan Grimes will have, with the help of her political consultants, come up with a coherent answer to the question of whether she voted for...
View Article2014’s Most Cringe-Inducing Moment
Yesterday when writing about Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes’s bizarre attempt to avoid admitting that she voted for Barack Obama for president, I expressed the hope that the Democrat...
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