Just some miscellaneous ramblings from an Upstate New Yorker.


Wednesday, January 15, 2014

So How Can the Republicans Do No Wrong?

From CBS News in New York:
Gov. Chris Christie’s approval rating and credibility remain strong among New Jersey voters surveyed in a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.
From the Washington Post:
A long-delayed Senate intelligence committee report released on Wednesday spreads blame among the State Department and intelligence agencies for not preventing an attack at an outpost in Libya that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
From Politico:
A Republican-controlled Senate and House would be a nightmare for the president, likely reducing him to full lame-duck status as the GOP works to block what’s left of his agenda, including a minimum wage hike and climate change, as official Washington looks ahead to 2016.
So can anyone explain why the Republicans can do no wrong while the Democrats, doing everything to help Americans, screw everything up? I'm serious. I want to know this.

All I know is that I'm supporting a middle ground candidate in 2016. Whether it turns out to be a milder Hillary Clinton or Jon Huntsman remains to be seen. And the Western states tend to be in some cases more progressive (like Colorado has been: marijuana legalization and a huge public transit program in Denver), so Huntsman, who has a strong track record, is my kind of guy, despite being a Republican.

Or a joint Clinton/Huntsman ticket in 2016: the first woman to get a major party bid picks a Republican.

As long as we don't get a larger Tea Party deal in 2016, that's all that matters.

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