Day: July 20, 2010
Crist: Republicans Only Concerned with “Regrettable Glory” of Party Ideology
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has called a special session of the legislature to consider a constitutional ban on offshore oil drilling. Republicans are crying “foul,” citing the fact that there are already statutes that determine how close drilling can be to Florida’s shores.
“I think it’s completely unnecessary,” said Rep. Matt Hudson, R-Naples, in a view expressed by others. “There’s absolutely no reason we have to go and create a law for something that’s already unlawful.”
Crist: Republicans have “completely lost their way.”
What Hudson is saying is that there is no need to add something to the state constitution that’s already been dealt with by statute. Kind of like adding an amendment to the Florida constitution banning same-sex marriage when there’s already a law against it. Obviously there’s no need for that, right?
Hudson didn’t think so in 2008, when he and almost every other Republican politician in Florida, including then GOP-er Gov. Crist, publicly endorsed Amendment 2, a Republican initiative to make same-sex marriage double-triple-really-really-quadriple illegal in Florida.
Gallup: Dems Move Ahead of GOP in Generic Preference, 6 Point Jump Is Their First Lead This Cycle
In the same week the U.S. Senate passed a major financial reform bill touted as reining in Wall Street, Democrats pulled ahead of Republicans, 49 percent to 43 percent, in voters’ generic ballot preferences for the 2010 congressional elections.
The Democrats’ six-point advantage in Gallup Daily interviewing from July 12-18 represents the first statistically significant lead for that party’s candidates since Gallup began weekly tracking of this measure in March.
Whether the Democrats’ edge is sustainable remains to be seen. Republicans held a four-point or better lead over Democrats in three Gallup weekly averages thus far this year, but in each case, the gap narrowed or collapsed to a tie the following week.
Personally, I think the Bush Policies’ oil disaster in the Gulf has everyone on edge, and voters have been venting their displeasure against the party in power. The plugging of the hole on July 15 could well be a factor in the uptick here.
Why Are Legitimate Journalists Ignoring the Pattern of Race-Baiting on Fox?
“No one seems to give a darn,” Megyn Kelly, the newsreader who’s been given the lead in pushing the NBPP story, recently said, with a heartfelt pout.
She’s right, of course, but what her viewers will never know is that source of the apathy isn’t the liberal media giving cover to Pres. Obama (not hardly), it’s the fact that there is no “there” there to the NBPP story.
On the other hand, there is a real story here that traditional journalists are ignoring. The attack by this giant “news” network — with its virtually unlimited resources thanks to its amoral right-wing billionaire owner/sugar daddy, Rupert Murdoch — against a tiny, radical fringe group only makes sense when viewed as part of a pattern of race baiting by the network.
