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Don’t Vote With Texas?

Barack Obama has swept a mock election at Laura Bush alma mater and would be future home of the Bush Library, Southern Methodist University.

Now More Than Ever Forever!

We now know that Tricia Nixon’s Iowa Mccain appearance was only the scene setter in the Nixon Cox family’s new adventures in politics.

Tricia’s husband Ed Cox had previously roused from his thirty year slumber to flirt with challenging Hillary Clinton for Senate, only to retreat. This time they are all in.

Cox is McCain’s New York State Chair, and son Christoper Nixon Cox, Richard Nixon’s first grandson, is state campaign Executive Director.

The familiar rituals of resume inflation are beginning. Buffalo Business First reports that Eddie “served under three U.S. Presidents.” but even his law firm biography claims only his father in law and something a fair distance from Reagan’s side:

“He served former President Nixon in the international arena and was general counsel to a major energy agency which financed synthetic fuels projects under President Reagan.”

And Reagan killed the Synthetic Fuels Corporation.

Truth & Consequences

Ronald Reagan’s miracle working powers are a staple of Republican writing and rhetoric .

Now comes a theory that the infectious optimism from beyond can smote Democrats, even from the grave. OpenLeft’s Matt Stoller suggests that “swing liberals” heard Barack Obama’s comments on the sunlit days of the Reagan Era, and that was enough to flip them to Hillary Clinton.

“We have been fighting Ronald Reagan’s psychologically diseased followers and predecessors since, well, since they called themselves the Confederacy and fought for slavery. And we will keep fighting them if we are to retain a republic. That’s why the self-identified very liberal Democrats swung away from Obama and took Nevada from him. Because he very self-consciously explained that he is not part of that fight, and they want a leader who is.”

Days of Yore

City of Dreams

Time to vote at the Wynn Las Vegas, and casino worker/reluctant Hillary Clinton supporter Don Harris told the Washington Post what his problem with her was:

“I just don’t know how many hours she spends in the Wal-Mart boardroom.”

Good Times There Are Not Forgotten

Clinton has been endlessly analogized to Nixon. Smart but charmless, not a natural politician but works hard. The problem is that while Nixon voters could at least comfort themselves that he would smite their enemies, potential Clinton supporters have no such assurances. At least Nixon was against the damn hippies. Hillary Clinton wants to “dialogue” with the worst her nominal opponents cough up.

Witness the debate on health.

There’s been some competition among Democratic candidates for who can better curse corporations while devising a health plan for the campaign. John Edwards has gotten some mileage mocking Barack Obama’s vision of a “big table” with Obama as Lyndon Johnson saying “Come let us reason together.”

On this one Obama is in full Git R’ Done,DC Edition mode:

“The key to getting this done is to empower the American people, but you also have to have negotiations and you have to be able to listen. Otherwise, stuff is not going to happen….The notion that they will have no say so at all, is just not realistic.

Hall Monitor Paul Krugman says Hillary Clinton’s health plan is an Edwards me-to, but doesn’t let her off probation.

And rightly so. Early January saw the Clinton Library as venue for the who-could-be-against-itly named Better Health Care Together, sponsored by old Hillary pals Wal-Mart. For some reason the event is not mentioned on the Clinton Foundation website.

Check It Out

Ladybird Johnson promoted wildflowers, Roslyn Carter mental health, and Nancy Reagan spurred us to victory in the War on Drugs. But they didn’t officially plaster their name on the issues while their husbands were on the federal payroll.

The federal Institute of Museum and Library Services is taking a more direct approach with the current First Lady. The “Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian” grants are now available!

The Institute has a Director with a string of Republican appointments to her credit.

Hurry! Applications due December 17th!

Meanwhile, liberal bastion Austin Texas is building “Laura’s Library”