The Super Majority

What Happened to the Patriotism of the GOP?

In 2002, as I put in my time at the Democratic Party tent for Alex Sanders and Jim Hodges at a local festival in Winnsboro, an elderly man walked up to me and told me that the flag that was hanging from the tent was the “Republican flag” and he was shocked that it was hanging from our Democratic tent. That flag was the American flag. Needless to say, I was ticked off, and had that man been forty years younger, I would have told him what I thought of the comment he had made. Instead, I followed the rule I was taught by my parents, and I respected my elder in that situation.

Do you remember those times? The Republicans were running around buying up everything red, white and blue, and rocking out to the Toby Keith lyrics of “we’ll put a boot in your ass, that’s the American way…”? They had the momentum, and I never thought we would see the end of the Republican domination we witnessed in 2002. However, you can only put your boot in so many people’s ass before they get tired of you, and after four years, the Democrats were regaining power, finally winning the White House in 2008.

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A Political Pattern to Stimulus Tour

Since Congress passed President Barack Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus bill in February, administration officials have traveled to at least 66 events across the country to tout the massive spending program or hand out stimulus cash to grateful local officials.

But a POLITICO examination of the travel reveals a distinctly political trend line: Top officials have hosted events predominantly in states that Obama won in 2008.

What’s more, the examination revealed that Obama officials all but avoided Southern states that Obama lost.

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Judge Sotomayor Meant What She Said

Judge Sotomayor said the following:

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge] than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.

Critics have seized on this as evidence that Sotomayor believes in identity politics, or what political scientists call “sociological representation,” the idea that only people of a certain race, ethnicity, or gender, can be competent to speak on certain issues or have certain opinions or represent certain constituencies.

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Canadian Socialist Leader Stumps for Obamacare

The leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party Jack Layton linked the future of his country’s universal health care system to President Obama’s public health care program in a Washington speech Wednesday.

Many conservative groups have pointed to Canada’s universal health care system as a reason to keep the American health care system in the private sector. Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s campaign, for example, launched an ad campaign last week featuring a Canadian woman named Shona Holmes who was diagnosed with brain tumor and says in the ad the only way she survived was by seeking treatment in America.

Mr. Layton accused groups like this of “sowing the seeds of fear with myths and lies about Canadian health care” and said the futures of the two health care programs are dependent on each other in an address delivered at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

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