Mike Lee donated $500 to Sen. Bennett's campaign

A blog pointing out that Lee donated to Bennett's campaign a full three weeks after Bennett passed TARP. Strange, because now one of the pillars of Lee's campaign is the unconstitutionality of that very bill. Hmmm, maybe he's a politician, just like everyone else running. He also points out the general silliness of the I-hate-Bennett crowd in thinking that someone else will go in there and "restore" the Constitution. Really, Mike Lee seems like a nice guy, and I like his parents, but I think people have a fantasy about what will happen if he's elected that's not going to come true.

Article in Washington Post about Utah Senate Race

The Trial of Bob Bennett

In fact, Bennett looks likely to lose primary. And the main example of his perfidy? Cooperating with a Democratic senator to develop a market-driven universal health-care proposal that would've covered every American with private insurance and abolished Medicaid.

Bennett isn't a liberal. He's not even a moderate. But he's a legislator: He's willing to work with the other side to get things done. And he's paying for it now.

The result of this isn't just that Bob Bennett might lose his seat. It's that other legislators will stop legislating. It's that all Bennett's friends will see what happened to their old colleague and go pale. It's that compromise will become too dangerous to seriously contemplate, and so the possibility for compromise will become even more remote.

Yep, we're probably going to elect some one to go to Washington and grandstand for six years. Lame.

America's Center-Right Core

A synopsis of former Senator Norm Coleman's speech to students at Harvard.

Big Government vs. Small Government

A great article by David Brooks in the New York Times. Thanks Julie!

Presidential Campaign Slogans

This website lists presidential campaign slogans since 1840. My favorites are Lincoln - "Vote Yourself a Farm"; Coolidge - "Keep Cool with Coolidge"; Barry Goldwater - "In Your Heart You Know He's Right"; Carter - "Not Just Peanuts."

Do political partisans get their facts wrong on purpose?

Article from SmartMoney

Utah and the Tea Party

An article about the political dynamics in Utah this year by my favorite political duo at the Deseret News.