George Rebane

As Barack Obama prepares his next economic fix speech, cartoonist Ramirez succinctly explains the shrinking president.  H/T to RR reader.

And from another RR reader, a sign of the times seen in Madison, Alabama.

And finally, Wal-Mart understands the American voter, perhaps, the best of anybody (see below).  The world’s largest merchandizer deals with them daily and knows their mind.  Such consumers arguably comprise a large segment of the independents and those ‘dependents’ making do on government transfer payments.  They barely read, are the totally innumerate product of our government school systems, and are dependable clay in the hands of political muckrakers.  California abounds with them, and Sacramento has long reflected their considered opinion of good governance.

These people form a reliable and growing voting block for progressive candidates of either party who can communicate their promises in an appropriately simple format.  And they are the same voters which the so-called ‘moderate Republicans’ must attract if the party is to have any future in what we used to know as the Golden State (see also ‘Republicans Need a New Strategy’)

Exit question:  What kind of platform must California’s Republicans draft that 1) maintains its advertized ideological principles, and 2) attracts the vote of someone living on a government check for whom 15 must be translated as the fingers on three hands?