Various reporters have covered the fact that Democrats are still using attacks against President Bush as an election strategy, six years after he last appeared on the ballot. That dog won’t hunt, in my humble opinion. Tribune (LA Times/Chicago Tribune) reporter Mike Memoli called me to get my take.
From the article –
“All [...]

CNN – Obama vacation brings rest, relaxation and rebuke
From the story -
Scott Stanzel, Bush’s deputy press secretary who often traveled with the president when he was away from the White House, said that changing locations provided a good opportunity to escape the hustle and bustle of Washington.
“President Bush, on the weekends, would often go to [...]

Here’s the audio of my appearance on the Dori Monson on June 29, 2010, to discuss the initiative to establish the first-ever state income tax in Washington state and our Defeat 1098 campaign.

Below is my response to today’s POLITICO Arena topic regarding Democrats focusing on GOP verbal missteps as a way to maintain their majority in Congress.
If Democrats think that focusing on the occasional, less-than-articulate sound bite from a Republican official is the way to maintain their grasp on Congress, then they are even more out of [...]

With the news out today that the monthly unemployment rate had “fallen” to 9.7 percent, I decided to look back at the monthly figures for President George W. Bush’s two terms at the White House. The numbers are revealing. The highest monthly average prior to the late 2008 financial crisis was 6.3 percent. [...]

Recently, my friend Chris Widener (leadership expert, author and founder of Positively Republican – the largest GOP group on Facebook) asked me to be an occasional contributor to RedCounty.com, where he serves as an editor. Red County is dedicated to being a forum for conservative politics, with a special focus on state and local [...]

A topic of today’s POLITICO Arena was… National Guard troops will be deployed to the border. What’s your reaction? Here’s my response:
This move by President Obama seems to be a direct response to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s call for the Obama team to “do its job” on our border. Apparently, she got their attention. [...]

Below is my video submission for today’s POLITICO Arena topic about the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate primary between Arlen Specter and Joe Sestak. I’ve long thought that Specter is the embodiment of all that is wrong with politics and I think his pandering 50 plus 1 approach (which I wrote about when he switched parties) is [...]

Today, the POLITICO Arena topic was “Don’t-ask-don’t-tell on Kagan?” – a discussion of whether or not blogger Andrew Sullivan was going too far in his campaign to out her. Note: Sullivan is gay and is trying to force Kagan to make a pronouncement on her sexual orientation.
If we are to ever truly get [...]

Today, I responded to the POLITICO Arena topic regarding offshore oil drilling and whether the BP accident in the Gulf of Mexico spells the end of any future expansion of exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf. In my response, I compared the spill to the 1979 nuclear reactor accident at Three Mile Island. [...]