Will Obamacare be a boat anchor on Democrats? If one reads many stories in the traditional press one could come to that conclusion. Should Democrats should ignore the traditional press and engage on Obamacare where it makes sense? Voters will likely surprise the pundits this next election. Sam Nunn’s daughter, President Jimmy Carter’s grandson, Wendy Davis, and other longshot Democrats may just be catalysts.
- President Obama's weekly address.
- Media’s obsession to focus on the few negative but fixable problems with healthcare continues.
For most Americans, Monday is the deadline to sign up for health insurance that takes effect on Jan. 1. It was supposed to be a turning point in the troubled history of the new health care law, the moment when the spotlight would shift from the federal government’s online marketplace to the insurance companies providing coverage to hundreds of thousands and eventually millions of people.
But as the date approaches, a series of decisions by the Obama administration to delay some of the law’s most important provisions and to extend some deadlines has caused uncertainty among insurers and confusion among consumers.
- E. J. Dionne slams David Brooks for his rather silly and less than empathetic statement on Obamacare and the mandate.
- Georgia Republicans have been some of the staunchest opponents of Obamacare. President Obama made a respectable showing in Georgia. Will some of these new Democrats change the tide?
The two major parties here don’t agree on many things. One of them is that it is only a matter of time before Georgia goes from being a Republican stronghold to a state that is up for grabs.
In next year’s elections, Democrats will be looking to speed that process along with a couple of candidates who bring fresh faces and familiar names.
- Will the Republican to Democrat party switching in Texas become and avalanche?.
When Lawrence Meyers won a seat on the statewide Court of Criminal Appeals in 1992, he was the first Republican elected to the state’s highest criminal court.
This month he made history again. After switching parties, Meyers, who had been a judge in Fort Worth, became the first Democrat to hold statewide office in Texas in the 21st century. Now he is running for a spot on the all-Republican Texas Supreme Court.