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AND THE WINNER IS…RAND
PAUL!
(by Gerald F. Seib/Wall Street Journal) - At
this point, it's both an understatement and a statement of the obvious to say
the government-shutdown showdown hasn't been good for the Republican Party. But there's an exception to every rule…
"The
winner in all this," declared a senior congressional Republican last week,
"is Rand Paul."
Mr.
Paul is jockeying with Sen. Ted Cruz to be the leading new-breed rebel with
disdain for the ways of Washington and a wide libertarian streak. But Mr. Cruz,
of Texas, won the lasting enmity of many in his party by leading the GOP into
an ill-fated effort to defund Obamacare and a resulting shutdown of government,
thereby helping send the party's approval ratings plunging.
Mr.
Paul played it cooler. The Kentucky senator was equally disdainful of President
Barack Obama's signature health-care program, but he said bluntly from the
outset that Republicans simply didn't have the votes to succeed in stripping
funds for it, and he has called for reopening the government. The implication
was that he wouldn't lead Republicans down the primrose path of a failed defunding
effort simply to score political points.
Similarly,
while some in the party have sounded willing to push the U.S. government to
default on its obligations rather than raise the nation's debt ceiling, Mr.
Paul said on CNN Sunday that such a strategy "is not a good idea." He
did, though, try to keep the focus on the policy debate where lots of
Republicans think it should have been in the first place—the level of
government spending.
Specifically,
he argued for keeping in place the tough mandatory ceilings on discretionary
spending known as the sequester, and he implied that is an area where GOP
senators could hang together.
The
upshot: Mr. Paul, once suspected by party regulars of being a wild-eyed
libertarian radical, has emerged looking both principled and rational. That
profile can't hurt if he pursues his obvious interest in chasing the 2016
Republican presidential nomination.
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RALSTON RETORTS!
I've
obtained an updated copy of the Nielsen ratings report for Jon Ralston’s show Tuesday night.
While
his average rating for the first week in October was 1.84…equating to less than
13,000 households watching out of some 2 million residents in Clark County…the
show dipped to an average rating of 1.66 Tuesday night, which equates to about
11,620 households watching.
Worse,
the longer people watched, the more they turned off. As it’s explained to me, the Nielsens check
in every 15 minutes. And for the last 15
minutes of Ralston Reports on Tuesday night, his rating dropped to 1.40. That’s less than 10,000 viewing households!
To
give this a little more perspective on just how bad his show is doing, during
that same time slot on Tuesday night, not only was Ralston Reports crushed by Jeopardy, it lost to a repeat of Two and Half Men and Judge Judy on independent stations…as
well as the news broadcast on Univision!
No
wonder Little Jon is so bitter with, well, everybody and everything these days.
Also,
the Typo King still hasn’t figured out the ol’ spell-check feature on his
computer…
See
more Ralston Retorts at www.RalstonRetorts.com
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“New
drones to make lethal attack decisions without human input. Hopefully not made
by same company that did Obamacare sign-up websites.” – Fred Thompson
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