Mad Men and Mad Women

[cal04]

Maureen Dowd
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/opinion/03dowd.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

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After the Republican rout in November, the story line took hold that because of the recession and Tea Partiers’ fervent focus on the debt as a moral matter, divisive social issues were going on the back burner. But lo and behold, social issues have roared back. Many in the Tea Party have joined that chain-smoking, cocktail-quaffing Mad Man John Boehner in the martini party to put a retro focus on wedge issues, from gays to abortion.

Like Boehner, who complained that Democratic leaders were “snuffing out the America that I grew up in,” some Tea Partiers are jumping in a time machine. They can’t stop themselves from linking social issues to the budget.

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Because independent voters considered President Obama too partisan in his debut, they shifted their loyalties — and swept in one of the most ideological and partisan Republican caucuses in history. Now Obama will get back some of the independents because he seems reasonable by comparison.

One thing independents like to be independent of is government meddling in their personal lives. 

[Doctor_J]

1. That's if the president actually takes on the most partisan caucus in history

his first two years in office were spent trying to prove how much he's like them.

[otohara]

2. Unaffiliated Voters - Uninformed, Easily Manipulated

Not at all "Independent"

Which way is the wind blowing today?