It will happen in the next 90 days. A decision that may reignite a culture war that could consume the Obama Administration’s best-laid plans on health care and the economy. Or not.
Thursday California’s Supreme Court heard arguments for and against the proposal that it overturn Proposition 8 — the initiative voters approved in November that overturned the Court’s prior ruling making same-sex marriage legal. Prop 8 passed with the help of a massive infusion of people and cash from the Mormon Church along with Christian and conservative groups after more …

The new video on Rush, Barack, and what’s really behind the mutually beneficial relationship. We said it first and Get Real keeps at the reality behind the circus politicus.
 
GET REAL :: Rush Hour from Jay DeDapper on Vimeo.

And you thought the stock market was having a rough year…. This morning’s Marist Poll piles on to the downward trend Governor Paterson has seen in two recent surveys from other polling organizations and shows his position to be getting worse by the week. Here’s the most damning line from the folks up in Poughkeepsie:
Governor Paterson’s approval rating is the lowest approval rating a New York State governor has received in the Marist Poll’s nearly thirty year history of statewide surveys.
Ouch. Paterson’s approval rating is down to 26% — five …

We’ve said it before and we say it again: Rush Limbaugh is the best thing that has happened to Barack Obama all year.
First came Limbaugh’s filibuster-worthy speech at CPAC (the convention for conservatives) on Saturday during which he “doubled down” (as White House Press secretary Robert Gibbs so eloquently put it) on his earlier statement that he was hoping for Obama to fail. The crowd and the conservative blogosphere could barely contain itself.
Then hours later the battle between Limbaugh and new Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele began — a cat …

Sunday’s NY Times had a Week in Review front-pager on how conservatives have decided on “socialism” as their primary rhetorical weapon against Barack Obama and the Democrats. The piece had plenty of examples and a nice bit asking an actual socialist in Congress (Vermont’s junior Senator Bernie Sanders) what he thinks of it all. But it was left to the editor laying out the pages to point out what this really represents.
In the next column over from the article’s Page 3 jump is another piece entitled “Ailing GOP Risks Losing …

 
It’s no mystery what Mike Bloomberg is going to run on in his bid for a third term — safe streets and good management. But what exactly would his Democratic opponent try and do to sour New Yorkers on their popular mayor?
 
If Anthony Weiner was to really run (which seems very doubtful at this point) he has already spent months sketching out an outer-borough populist case that paints Bloomberg as an elitist who was lucky enough to be mayor during one of the biggest economic booms in the city’s history. …