By the way, it wasn’t a “filibuster”.
“Lawmakers have reached an agreement to end the one-man filibuster by Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., that has blocked an extension of health and unemployment benefits since last week.
The Senate will take a series of votes Tuesday night, culminating in a final vote on the $10 billion bill. The legislation [...]

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Honeymoon is over I guess.

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Witness this:
“By definition, conservatism prefers the past to the present - in William F. Buckley’s famous formulation, history was something to be stood athwart and sternly told to stop - but over the past half year, the present has been particularly trying for American conservatives.
Politically, they’re in the wilderness, with Barack Obama’s popularity stubbornly high, [...]

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As you’ve heard me say a hundred times, it was a lack of core conservatism that cost the GOP in 2008, 2010. A Gallup Poll found that:

“PRINCETON, NJ — Despite the results of the 2008 presidential election, Americans, by a 2-to-1 margin, say their political views in recent years have become more conservative rather [...]

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See what happens when Socialism is introduced in America? It begins to return to it’s conservative roots.
“PRINCETON, NJ — Thus far in 2009, 40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal. This represents a slight increase for conservatism in the [...]

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