Lily pads at sunset in the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. From National Geographic.
President Obama Hasn't Changed, We Have (Jon Meacham) from the Washington Post
"I would not hold out for a fundamentally New Obama. For better or for worse, Obama is today - and will be tomorrow - what he has always been: a bright man engaged in an endeavor that rewards luck and happenstance more often than it does intellect and good intentions."
Texas Considers Medicaid Withdrawl from the New York Times
"Far-right conservatives are offering that possibility in impassioned news conferences. Moderate Republicans are studying it behind closed doors. And the party’s advisers on health care policy say it is being discussed more seriously than ever, though they admit it may be as much a huge in-your-face to Washington as anything else."
It would be huge political disaster for the TX GOP as well. For the sake of finally blowing out the underpinnings of the GOP there, it wouldn't be an entirely bad thing if it actually happened.
New Day Rising (The Case For Democratic Optimism--Real or Fake) (Jonathan Bernstein) from the New Republic
"Democrats should pound the 1996-2012 analogies, remind themselves that reversals are not only possible but happen all the time (...), and convince themselves and anyone who will listen to them that good times for Dems are, once again, right around the corner. "
Inside The Bruising Democratic Leadership Fight: Pelosi Moves To Box Out Hoyer from TalkingPointsMemo
"Part of the reason, according to a third Democratic aide, is that Hoyer and Pelosi still don't really get along. But it's more complicated than just personal rivalries. For one thing, after Tuesday's losses, Hoyer doesn't really represent a significant portion of the caucus anymore."
Ahhh! So that's what's going on! I think I shall avert my eyes until it's over.
To Hell With the Press (Mark McKinnon) from the Daily Beast
"Rick Perry won an unprecedented third term as Texas governor while actively shunning the press corps. Mark McKinnon on the GOP's trendy tactic—and how newspapers are fighting back."
America's Vote for Maturity (Peggy Noonan) from the Wall Street Journal
"in the future the tea party is going to have to ask itself: Is this candidate electable? ... This is the key question the tea party will face in 2012. And it will be hard to answer it, because the tea party doesn't have leaders or conventions, so the answer will have to bubble up from a thousand groups, from 10,000 leaders. Electable doesn't mean not-conservative. Electable means mature, accomplished, stable—and able to persuade.."
I DON'T agree with Noonan's implication that somehow this last election cycle somehow produced a crop of "mature" lawmakers -- and I suspect the Tea Partiers could not care less what conservative intellectuals like her think of their maturity.
Mid-term Election Results Not a Mandate for GOP, Poll Shows from Raw Story
"It's the economy, stupid. That catchphrase from the 1992 election -- which saw Bill Clinton propelled to the Oval Office on a wave of discontent over unemployment -- applies just as strongly in 2010, a new poll indicates."
UK NUGGET!!
Breathtaking Britain: Nature's Beauty from Dusk til Dawn from the Daily Mail [of the UK]
"Using a panoramic film camera in the magic hours of sunrise and sunset, Mark Denton has captured England’s greatest landscapes for his new book England: The Panoramas."
BASEBALL OBITUARY NUGGET!!
Postscript: Sparky Anderson from the New Yorker
"When I heard the news yesterday that Sparky Anderson had died, I thought immediately of the opening of “Agincourt and After,” Roger Angell’s account of the 1975 World Series, in which Anderson’s Cincinnati Reds defeated the Boston Red Sox in seven games."
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