Day: April 22, 2013

Vast Majority of Americans See Republicans as Out of Touch

Buck Banks

23%

Of Americans believe the Republican Party is “in touch with the concerns of most people in the United States today,” while 70% believe that it is “out of touch,” according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. Among independents, those numbers are 23% to 70%. Among moderates they’re 20% to 75%. By contrast, Americans say by 51% to 46% that Obama is in touch. Among moderates that’s 56% to 42% (he fares worse among independents, 44% to 53%, though far better than Republicans).

Maybe There Is a Democratic Backlash Against Dems Who Voted Against Gun Control

Buck Banks

So I’ll have some advice for my friends in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles: Just say no to the Democrats who said no on background checks.

— Former Obama White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley (D), writing in the Washington Post, about how Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) “betrayed me on gun control.”

They Shoot Politicians, Don’t They?

Buck Banks

We need to let those who will come in the future to represent us [know] that we are serious. The 2nd amendment means nothing unless those in power believe you would have no problem simply walking up and shooting them if they got too far out of line and stopped responding as representatives. It seems that we are unable to muster that belief in any of our representatives on a state or federal level, but we have to have something, something costly, something that they will fear that we will use if they step out of line.

— From the April newsletter of the Benton County, Arkansas Republican Party.