Now that you’ve got their attention…
When it comes to audiences, the American public is a tough crowd. It’s hard to get their attention, and when you do, they have a short attention span, a shorter memory and little patience for subtlety or innuendo. So when you get their attention, make your point...
McCronyism
With the exception of @_FloridaMan, which is truly a stroke of comedic genius, I don’t follow a lot of faux twitter accounts. So when the account @PatMcCrony popped up in my twitter feed, I chuckled but didn’t pay it much attention. Now, though, the more I look into...
Moral Monday protests: Why they matter
By all accounts, tomorrow’s protest at the legislature is going to eclipse the previous three. Caravans are gearing up to drive to Raleigh from areas across the state. Facebook pages are encouraging participation and one has over 700 people saying they plan to...
Handicapping the NC GOP Senate primary
Looks like the National Republican Senatorial Committee got its man in North Carolina. Thom Tillis told reporters yesterday that he plans to file papers with the FEC next week to officially launch his campaign. National Republicans, or at least the McCain-Graham...
John Wayne’s world
In the wake of the Newtown massacre, gun nuts demanded nothing be done to curb access to firearms. Instead, they insisted we need to beef up our mental health system. And, besides, our society would be safer with more guns, not less. So what did the North Carolina...
A Berger that’s hard to swallow
State budgets reflect priorities and in North Carolina, the priorities of Senate President Pro-tem Phil Berger could not be more clear. The senate budget passed last week makes steep cuts in public education including slashing our nationally recognized Pre-K program....
Democrats glimmer of light?
Politics in North Carolina is truly a mess. On the one side, we have party drunk with power, struggling to control its nuttiest factions and unwilling or unable to curb the opportunists who want to plunder government. On the other, we have a disorganized party with no...
PARTAY!!
Last week, when I said that the North Carolina Democratic Party should be staffed by professionals, some people questioned my definition of political professionals. Over the past two decades, politics has become a career path. Several universities and colleges offer...
Emptying the clown car
Okay. So Randy Voller has succeeded in making an ass of himself and embarrassing the North Carolina Democratic Party. He should probably step down for the good of the party but he won't and with the current party rules, there's no viable way to remove him. Besides,...
Blowing bubbles
In the middle of George Bush’s second term, as he was under fire for a myriad of failures, Newsweek ran an animated cover that showed Bush floating in huge bubble. Obama’s critics have lodged the same complaint about him, that he’s isolated from people with differing...
