Day: January 7, 2014

I have a short list of people whose deaths I will be happy to celebrate. Frank Luntz is one of them. It appears I might have the chance. Luntz got a serious case of the pouts when Obama was reelected and it is threatening to kill him. Now don't get me wrong. I know depression is a real disease, but Luntz' depression is funny to me.

It was what Luntz heard from the American people that scared him. They were contentious and argumentative. They didn't listen to each other as they once had. They weren't interested in hearing other points of view. They were divided one against the other, black vs. white, men vs. women, young vs. old, rich vs. poor. "They want to impose their opinions rather than express them," is the way he describes what he saw. "And they're picking up their leads from here in Washington."

Francine Kiefer quotes congressional historian Julian Zelizer of Princeton University in her column "Democrats to push income inequality as top issue of 2014. Winning tactic?":

"A lot of Democrats feel the last two years have been consumed with health care ... and the deficit," he explains. "Until you shift the debate, you're not going to be able to get in a position where you can push for legislation like the [higher] minimum wage. And this is the right time because the Republicans are in a moment of division" over whether to obstruct or to compromise.

Well, it looks like the Democrats have already been successful in shifting the debate. How do we know that? Because now Republicans are talking about income inequality.

Several school districts in Delaware are closed today for the bitter cold. I personally disagreed with this decision. Until I read the former Rsmitty's post on Facebook about it, which I am republishing here....