http://strata-sphere.com/blog High Flying Political Debate Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:23:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Between the backlash of the independents against the Democrats in Tuesday's historic elections and the bad news on the unemployment today it is not surprising the Democrat caucus is losing the moderate democrat support for the destruction of our nation's health care system with a government rationed, costly health care ... http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11217 As I noted yesterday the topic driving the electorate is the unemployment, which shot up dramatically again in October: The United States economy shed 190,000 jobs in October, and the unemployment rate reached a 26-year high of 10.2 percent, up from 9.8 percent in September, the Department of Labor said Friday ... http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11211 What was driving the wave of elections in VA and NJ this week? The deteriorating jobs market was and is the driver, which is where the average American voter connects to the 'economy' in a visceral way. The crux of the Democrats' problem with the voters is they have failed ... http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11208 NY-23 illustrated an interesting decision path for the GOP. There are two paths available, and the decision on which path to take is up to the far right 'true' conservatives who spout such bonding terms as RINO. If the far right can respectfully align with the centrists, the first path forward ... http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11203 I have been holding off posting on the election results to see how bad it was going to be in VA - and it is a historic disaster for Democrats. Not only did the Dems lose all three state wide races, they lost them by astounding margins.  With 70% of ... http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11196 Democrats better take notice in Virginia today. The purple state that has been trending democrat for years, some could say leading the defection of the GOP that took hold in 2006 and 2008, which went for Barack Obama in 2008 53-47%, is going to send a message today. The state is ... http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11192 A lot of people (me included) are sending out the warning signals to those 'true' conservatives who botched 2006 and 2008 and gave us the liberals in DC. The WSJ now joins those ranks: Saturday's decision by Republican Dede Scozzafava to drop out of tomorrow's special Congressional election in upstate New ... http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11190 OK, I am a huge Palin fan who is stymied as to what this is all about: “Virginia, hello, this is Sarah Palin calling to urge you to go to the polls Tuesday and vote to share our principles,” the former Alaska governor says in the call, which was provided to ... http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11187 The liberal media is pretty savvy, and knows that to derail Sarah Palin in 2012 they need to brand her a far right zealot. As I noted before, everyone is blowing the NY-23 debacle out of all proportions. The Scozzafava selection was a dumb back room decision by GOP party ... http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11180 Update: Updated with link to LA Times article (thanks NB) Update: Jay Cost at RCP has a coincidentally timed and similar post on the current political situation - end update The last few years have been the battle of the extreme views and their respective denunciation by America. After rallying together from ... http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11177 Is it really that hard for the immature far right to show a modicum of respect and allow people to fix a mistake without all the invective and arrogance? Apparently, yes it is. Dede Scozzafava did the GOP a favor by realizing she was not what the voters wanted and allowing ... http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11174 Story after story after story have America experiencing its first case of Obamacare - up close and personal. As I noted the other day, the US Administration KNEW damn well what state the disbursement of swine flu vaccines was in, but they pulled the "PANIC" button anyway, more than likely ... http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11171 NY-23 is an interesting case of one party's political machinery screwing up, another party's hopes being dashed, and the electorate fed up with both. But it is not a resurgence of the far right. Dede Scozzafava was a lame attempt by the GOP party leaders to catch some Obama fever. She ... http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11163 One of the well connected Islamo Fascists that was on the inside of the Hamburg cell of al Qaeda, which in turn became the 9-11 highjackers, is Said Bahaji - a German citizen of Moroccan decent. He came to Hamburg in 1995. He enrolled in an electrical engineering program at a technical university ... http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11156 A follow up to my previous post. The BS keeps flowing from Team Obama with their false jobs claims (sorry I cannot link to the data, the map only allows for displaying the information - I cannot even copy it, I have to retype it). From California: Prime Recipient: Jason A ColemanAmount: ... http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11153