1. I have empathy and see this as a public health failure. 2. At some point people have agency and responsibility. 3. At the same time, their decisions affect the rest of us.
Why Ohio voters approved abortion ballot measure, according to exit polling
Liberals turned out to vote and state residents broadly backed access. abcnews.go.com/Politics/ohio-…
Republicans are floundering, trying to settle on an issue that revs up their base like Roe/Dobbs does for Democrats.
• Title 42 reversal is a bust so far with video on the networks documenting a drop in numbers (the issue is a serious one, the politics are politics of fear).
• The Hunter Budin/Weaponizing committees are a bust, with the overhyped leaked documents leading nowhere except Q style conspiracies: "my best sources are disappeared!"
• The Republican-initiated debt ceiling crisis? They never read The Ransom of Red Chief, I guess.
Mind you, all of them are serious issue at their core, but none of the GOP efforts are at all based on serious analysis and solutions. Not in the least.
And that's what is the remarkable take away from all of this. Even with a House majority, there is no serious effort to govern
“I think that the New York case is much stronger than people perceive it to be,” [John] Dean told me yesterday. “We really don’t know the contents of the indictment, and we really won’t know for a much longer time the evidence behind the indictment.” @RonBrownstein
Local paper suggests focus on crime was misplaced and might have backfired
Our local GOP ran awful ads trying to make the case, eg that Dick Blumenthal was trying to kill your kids with fentanyl - awful in production value as well as content
Whatever you think of Biden, history will recognize both the historic midterm win and the political instincts he brings to the table many take for granted. How many politicians stay quiet when they need to stay quiet? Hint: it’s not about them if they are not running.
We'll see what happens in the House, but I'm still waiting for the "we were wrong about the Red wave and we were snookered by Republican operatives" stories to pile up.