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Yesterday, Republican David Jolly defeated Democrat Alex Sink in a Tampa-area House election. The contest drew significant attention because the media stressed it to be an important first test of the incumbent's  health care tax, ahead of November's midterm elections. Additionally, both sides spent millions auditioning national strategies.

 

Equally important, both parties called in star advocates like former President Bill Clinton and former vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan. The district was blanketed with ads, calls and mailings. More than $11 million was spent on the race, according to the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit group that tracks government information.

 

What was most interesting, however, were a couple of comments made by Sink on two significant issues. During her campaign she intimated that illegal immigrants were needed because without them, where would people get maids, gardeners or other menials?

 

An then on Squawk Box this morning, host Joe Kernan recalled that in an interview Sink opined that oil drilling in the Gulf was to be curtailed as a major priority. When he then noted that Florida thrives on tourism, and high oil prices made it difficult for visitors or precluded travel to the state, he said she couldn’t grasp the connection between the cause and effect.

 

And these are the dimwits the Dem party’s proud of and invests millions in. 

 

Weather-wise, Jason Keyser of the Associated Press, writes that yesterday, “Tens of thousands of homes and businesses in northern Illinois lost power and a few hundred flights were canceled at Chicago's airports, including Midway International, where 6 inches of snow fell. The storm was moving east into northern Indiana, and it was forecast to hit the Great Lakes in Ohio, Pennsylvania and upstate New York before dissipating over Canada.”

 

The snowstorm followed Tuesday’s all-night Senate meeting where Harry Reid’s group railed against climate change and global warming. And the only conclusion one can reach is that after ruining or destroying just about every aspect of governance there is, from the economy, to health care to foreign relations and terrorism, and everything else they’ve touched, temperature issues are all they have left.

 

Nonetheless, despite the noise Reid’s trying to make over a fictitious issue, the voting public isn’t very interested in the subject.   

 

Scott Clement of the Washington Post, writes that “For years, global warming has ranked at the bottom of Americans' to-do list for Congress, trumped by the economy, budget and entitlements and terrorism. A January Pew Research Center poll found just 29 percent saying it's a "top priority" for President Obama and Congress this year, ranking 19th out of 20 issues tested. Protecting the environment ranked higher at 49 percent, but was still 12th from the top.

 

And perhaps that’s why, according to Patrick O'Connor of The Wall Street Journal, “Mr. Obama's job approval ticked down to 41% in March from 43% in January, marking a new low. Some 54% disapproved of the job he is doing, matching a previous high from December, when the botched rollout of his signature health law played prominently in the news. The latest survey also showed the lowest-ever approval in Journal/NBC polling for Mr. Obama's handling of foreign policy.”

 

Yet, at the same time, Limbaugh’s “Rush Revere and the First Patriots" reached first on Amazon book sales.

 

So, it seems things aren’t looking too good for the Dem’s wherever they go.  And speaking of “going,” Washington DC’s a place where droves of them will soon be leaving. 

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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