It has been a usual and customary vote getter to scare seniors about losing Medicare.  With polls showing young voters not as supportive – or at least as enthusiastic as in 2008 Obama used a scare tactic on youthful voters. While at the Northern Virginia Community...

Former Presidents can be a powerful force in promoting actions that will help solve the many problems facing the country by improving job creation. The George W. Bush Institute held an inaugural conference on Economic Growth earlier this month.  As one of the first...

No plans to do Political Tidbits today…but there are so many Tidbits in a POLITICO newsletter…I clipped a few for you…I just could not help myself.  Read and enjoy. --DONALD TRUMP, to George Stephanopoulos, on financial disclosure if he runs for president (promises a...

Obama Is Likely to Lose Peggy Noonan lays out how Obama is likely to lose in 2012 in her Wall Street Journal DECLARATION column.  She then warns Republicans about what could happen if the GOP does not get serious.   Read the full opinion here. West Virginia Governor’s...

West Virginia has the only Governor’s race in the country this year.  As a result it is attracting national attention.  The Fix read regularly by political insiders wrote about our May 14th election.  Read here to see how it looks from the outside.

Last evening in Chicago President Obama was having a private chat with campaign donors.   What he did not realize that when the reporters traveling with him had left the room -- the audio feed of his conversation was still being relayed to a distant press room. ...

President Obama did not wait to kick off his $1 billion dollar 2012 campaign later this week in Chicago.  He did so today in a speech at George Washington University.  The speech was billed in advance as a policy address regarding his plan to cut the national debt and...

The President Is Missing By Paul Krugman (New York Times) What have they done with President Obama? What happened to the inspirational figure his supporters thought they elected? Who is this bland, timid guy who doesn’t seem to stand for anything in particular?  Read...

Boehner:  Next fight will be about trillions, not billions By John Boehner (Speaker, U. S House of Representatives) This week, Congress is moving toward approval of an agreement on the largest spending cut in history to help begin to create a better environment for...

Two respected Americans who served four U. S. presidents as Secretary of State have written an op-ed in The Washington Post.  Secretary Henry A. Kissinger joined with Secretary James A. Baker III outlined their views about “The grounds for U. S. intervention.”  Read...

THE WINNER IS…anyone’s guess…depends upon the turnout plan of the candidates…both parties…with no interest on Main Street in the Governor’s primary…the party faithful will decide…even if TV ads increase…then only those negative ones will likely impact…the Democrat...

The shutdown battle: 10 things to watch By: Bob Cusack (The Hill) The forecast on Capitol Hill this week calls for brinksmanship, heated rhetoric and a climactic ending that could have a major impact on the 2012 elections.  Read the full story here.

It has been said money is the “mother’s milk of politics.”  The candidates in the special primary election have filed their first reports with the Secretary of State.  Though the campaign has been quiet to now you can learn a lot by reviewing these reports. Below are...

Campaigns… are picking up…so is the snow in Elkins…Democrat Natalie Tennant has released a document with policy ideas…is she following the Gaston Caperton model…in an usual TV move John Perdue has a two minute spot…could be a good move… time for voters to learn about...

The Economist a respected international publication takes a harsh look at Barack Obama’s energy policy.  They talk about his “half-baked, reheated list of proposals as anything more than a reassurance to the environmentally-minded”.  Read the full story here.

WINTER meeting of Republican State Committee made it…held three days before Spring…attendance looked like a record…it was professionally organized…and you could sense an infrastructure coming together…members were delighted with the new less costly headquarters…even...

Sarah Palin Says She’s ‘Tempted’ To Run for President In 2012, Even as Evidence Mounts She Won’t By Jon Ward (HuffPost) Washington—What is Sarah Palin up to? The former Alaska governor told Fox News Wednesday night she is “still thinking about” running for president...

Karl Rover’s Crossroads GPS launches Wikicountability document-sharing website By Mathew Boyle (The Daily Caller) Through his Crossroads GPS organization, former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove rolled out a new document-sharing website similar to Wikileaks on...

Constitutional firestorm over Libya war and Biden’s past impeachment words greeting Obama By Andrew Malcolm (Lost Angeles Times) Oh, my how awkward is this? President Obama, his daughters, his wife and him other-in-law just debarked from five days of parties, toasts...

Would Obama help or hurt deficit negotiations? By Ezra Klein (The Washington Post with Bloomberg) The implicit assumption of the letter that the Gang of 64 sent President Obama is that it’d be easier to craft a budget deal if the White House was aggressively and...

Palin: I could have brought change in ‘08 By Jordan Fabian (The Hill) Republicans would have been more successful in the 2008 presidential elections if she was at the top of the ticket, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin suggested Saturday.  Read the full story here....

The incredible, changeable independent voter By Chris Cillizza & Aaron Blake (The Washington Post) In American electoral politics, independent voters are the holy grail.  Thousands of hours are spent by political strategist and reporters (read: nerds) pouring over...

Democrats run West Virginia very well By Larry Puccio (OP-ED, Charleston Gazette) Recently, the West Virginia Republican chairman resorted to his favorite tactic of preaching gloom and doom about our state.  While state Republicans claim they want to better our state,...

Legislation to block EPA regulations makes significant gains in Congress By Amanda Carey (The Daily Caller) Republicans in the House and Senate made major gains Tuesday in efforts to block Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations on greenhouse gas emissions. ...