The administration's ''summer of recovery'' has fizzled in almost every way imaginable. The growth rate is less than half what it was at this stage after the 1974-75 and 1981-82 recessions.
That the honeymoon between Washington and Wall Street has turned to bitter recriminations is not news, given that the administration had long pledged to revamp Wall Street regulation in the wake of a crisis that rattled the global financial system.
Below is the latest column from Dick Morris giving a noteworthy summary of the current races for U.S. Senate. It also contains a "press release" announcement from Morris about how others can receive free his regular columns about politics and Washington.
If Democrats had doubts about the voter unrest that threatens to rob them of their majority in Congress, they needed only look from the Capitol this weekend to the opposite end of the National Mall at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial for conservative commentator Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally.
Ed Lasky wrote: "One little-noticed trend that speaks volumes: the decline in Democratic Party identification and support for Barack Obama from American Jews, once among their most reliable and enthusiastic backers. There has been a steady drip-drip-drip of Jews leaving the Democratic Party, most recently noted by the Pew Research Center.''
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