At the risk of giddy over-optimism, I have the hunch that the American voting public is beginning to demand legislating that actually deals with the nation's problems. There is creeping -- still ambiguous -- evidence of this, starting with the national polling data. I argued last December that President Barack Obama's support for the extension of the Bush tax cuts would not end up helping him once the 2011 legislating season started picking up steam, because by principle the president was toward the left side of the political spectrum -- and the public was toward the right --...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/02/23/reality-based_politics_108998.html
Ted Kaufman Ted Kennedy Thad Cochran Thomas Carper Tim Johnson
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