Political Student

Written by Dave Chase

Here is an editorial I wrote for The Point News. Enjoy!

After a summer of brutal town halls, lunatic TV/Radio hosts and angry protesters, it’s hard to say that President Obama’s health care reform effort is where he, or the millions of Americans supporting him, hoped it would be. With three bills, two from the Senate and one from the House, floating around, it looks like the final bill will bring little more than further tweaks to the system, not the broad and comprehensive reform that is desired.

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Written by Dave Chase

There is a great scene in the second season of the West Wing where White House Chief of Staff, Leo McGarry (played by John Spencer), and White House Director of Communications Director, Toby Ziegler (played by Richard Schiff), are sitting in the Oval office after Toby got politically beat by the new chief of staff of the Republican Speaker of the House, Ann Stark. It goes like this:

Toby: We have got to get real now. Leo, Ann Stark is a war time consigliere that is why she was bumped up.

Leo: I am war time consigliere too, Toby. I was just hoping it would be peace time a little longer.

I am not sure if there was anyone who did not think that Rahm Emanuel was going to be President Obama’s Leo McGarry but as the Washington Post has recently reported, we have seen a completely different tact taken by Mr. Emanuel.

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Written by Dave Chase

I had an interesting conversation via Twitter yesterday with @Axsom about professional politics and how it has corrupted our government. It’s hard to argue that our nations leaders always act in the best interest of the country. In fact, nearly every politicians decision can be explain as an attempt to get votes.

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Written by Dave Chase

Rush Limbaugh’s appearance at last weeks CPAC started a media war over who is the face of the Republican Party. Interestingly enough, it seems to have started a war within the Republican Party over who is the face of the Republican Party (More Here).

It seems that after the democrats started suggesting that Rush is the new face of the Republican Party, Micheal Steele, RNC Chairman, wasn’t too happy. In an interview with CNN Steele said, “Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh—his whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it’s incendiary. Yes, it’s ugly.”

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