David Frum Mocks Conservative Talking Points on Gun Violence

David Frum has fired off brilliant tweets mocking how conservatives try to control the debate anytime there is mass gun violence.

Quote of the Day

"Imagine, if you will, someone who read only the Wall Street Journal editorial page between 2000 and 2011, and someone in the same period who read only the collected columns of Paul Krugman. Which reader would have been better informed about the realities of the current economic crisis? The answer, I think, should give us pause. Can it be that our enemies were right?"

David Frum

You know the economy has gotten bad when a former Bush speechwriter is singing praises for Paul Krugman.

Teresa Strasser Vs David Frum

Teresa Strasser takes David Frum to the woodshed for Dick Cheney for waterboarding. Frum served in the Bush administration as a speechwriter.

Why Opposing Health Care Was Politically Bad For GOP

Via Pensito Review: A new Gallup finds the highest group of voters uninsured are independents. 48 percent of independent voters are without health insurance. 31 percent of Democratic voters are without health insurance. 17 percent of Republicans are uninsured. 36 percent of Democrats are on Medicare. Independents are next at 33 percent.

The Republican Party opposed to bill to appease the independents voters known as the Tea Party. The GOP's problem is their voter base is strinking. Democrats registered record numbers of voters in 2008. The Tea Party independents have long voted Republican.

Mark Blumenthal makes a strong argument that only 10 percent of independent voters can shift for either party. Third Party candidates are competing with Republicans for fundraising dollars. Democrats will use the health care bill to woe Democratic-leaning independents. Proof the Tea Party strategy was bad for the GOP: Democrats are still raising more money than Republicans.

Conservative David Frum wrote how attempts to repeal the health care bill would be a political and policy failure for Republicans.

No illusions please: This bill will not be repealed. Even if Republicans scored a 1994 style landslide in November, how many votes could we muster to re-open the “doughnut hole” and charge seniors more for prescription drugs? How many votes to re-allow insurers to rescind policies when they discover a pre-existing condition? How many votes to banish 25 year olds from their parents’ insurance coverage? And even if the votes were there – would President Obama sign such a repeal?

That is a message of hope to sell to voters.

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"Rush knows what he is doing. The worse conservatives do, the more important Rush becomes as leader of the ardent remnant. The better conservatives succeed, the more we become a broad national governing coalition, the more Rush will be sidelined."

David Frum, on how the GOP remaining in minority status is good for Limbaugh's radio ratings.

Bill Clinton had Newt Gingrinch to make him look better. Barack Obama has Rush Limbaugh. Obama told Congressional Republicans not to listen to Limbaugh. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called Limbaugh "the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party." Obama and Emanuel are propping up Limbaugh because they know Republicans are terrified of the speakers of their base. Right now Limbaugh has the biggest soap box.