Applesauce
Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a litttle salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don’t say you weren’t warned. By the way, this blog’s name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, “All politics is applesauce.” |
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 El Rushbo LOOKS ASKANCE at efforts by a gaggle of GOP big shots to “rebrand” their troubled party.
 Lord Limbaugh says, in effect: Rebranding? We don’t need no stinking rebranding! I am the brand!
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This is pretty entertaining stuff as delivered by Bill Maher, Barney Frank and Fareed Zakaria.
The best part is when Frank invites pro-Wall Street Democrats to start their own political party.
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 Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the son of one president and brother of another, SAYS it’s time for Republicans to lay aside their fond memories of Ronald Reagan and try to come up with new ideas with which to compete with Democrats.
 Indeed, the Reagan presidency is fading into the mists of history more quickly than some of us oldsters want to admit. The very youngest of voters who marked for Reagan when he was first elected to the White House will be 50 years old when the next presidential election rolls around. And tens of millions of other Reagan voters in 1980 will have died by 2012.
 Another way of looking at it: Barack Obama was a teenager when Reagan was first elected, and he wasn’t old enough to run for the U.S. Senate when Reagan left office.
 Jeb Bush is right. With each passing day, the Reagan legacy carries a little less weight with the American electorate.
 Besides, Democratic candidates have carried the popular vote in four of the five presidential elections since Reagan left office (or four of six, if you count the election held in the waning days of Reagan’s presidency). So, the Gipper’s legacy has never been one of enduring electoral value to other Republicans anyway.
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 Illinois state law has created a system not unlike the one that would prevail under the proposed Employee Free Choice Act currently pending in Congress.
 Pro-business groups have warned that EFCA would give rise to union intimidation of workers, but THIS STUDY says the Illinois experience doesn’t support such fears.
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 Last week, I reported HERE on a survey showing that frequent churchgoers are more likely than other Americans to support their government’s use of torture in interrogating terrorism suspects.
 Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, former president of the Chicago Theological Seminary, SEES those poll results as reflective of the great popularity of Mel Gibson’s movie “The Passion of the Christ.”
 UPDATE: Speaking of religion, Rob Boston of Church & State magazine, has an INTERESTING PIECE on the likely contenders for leadership of the Religious Right.
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It seems to me that there’s more good stuff to chew on here than is usually the case with these shows:
 POSTSCRIPT: Among the clips in that video are comments from Pennsylvania Sen. Arlan Specter about his switch last week from Republican to Democrat.
 Which brings to mind this piece of nonsense from Republican Sen. Jim Ihofe in another forum on Sunday:
There is no evidence more visible that the American people are already rebelling against the far-left agenda than Senator Arlen Specter switching parties to become a Democrat. He did this for one reason, and that is his advisers told him he couldn’t retain his Senate seat as a Republican. In other words, the same people who supported Senator Specter six years ago have soundly rejected him today.
That, my friends, sounds like 1994. The extreme liberal agenda is not sellable to the American people. Just wait and see.Â
 It might interest Inhofe to see that while polls showed Specter running far behind right-wing challenger Pat Toomey in a Republican primary, a new poll SHOWS Specter, as a Democrat, way ahead of Toomey in the general election.
 You see, Sen. Inhofe, in Pennsylvania, as elsewhere in America, conservative Republicanism is out of touch with the mainstream.
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 The only good thing about this weird recession is that the economic lessons it’s teaching us eventually will spawn a bull market in books explaining how it all happened.
 The latest of these lessons has to do with the phenomenon of falling wages, the dangers of which are described HERE.
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