The Rod Martin Report: October 30, 2015
The GOP Establishment goes on the attack...against its own party. Plus, the outsiders consolidate their dominance; and Rubio is right: the media is the Democrats' Super PAC.
by Rod D. Martin
October 30, 2015
Most important political fact of the week: The Republican Establishment went on the attack against its own party.
Does this sound hyperbolic? Consider:
John Kasich – whose principle achievement is expanding Medicaid, and whom many have touted as the Establishment’s Plan B should Jeb Bush falter – spent the week calling anyone to the right of him “crazy,” and lashing out at ideas not invented by Hubert Humphrey or Hillary Clinton. (Donald Trump’s evisceration of Kasich, who was a rather important part of the debacle at Lehman Brothers, was possibly the second best moment of the debate).
Mitt Romney – in an interview on David Axelrod’s podcast no less – openly lamented the demise of the Big Three networks’ oligopoly. “There was a time when we all got the news with the same facts,” he whined wistfully to Obama’s campaign guru (who clearly agreed).
John Boehner engineered passage of a budget that rubber-stamped Barack Obama’s agenda for the entire rest of his t…