Saturday column — I know Vic Snyder. These are no Vic Snyders. Sunday — Blanche tells off the president. Wink. Wink. National — Ode to independents. They’ll be the majority before too long. UPDATE — Well, I had to do a last-minute redo of the Saturday column because Robbie Wills said he wouldn’t take campaign contributions during the [...]

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The previous post about the early 1st District Democratic favorites being Marion Berry chief of staff Chad Causey and Jonesboro lawyer and former state Rep. Chris Thyer is now outdated by a Jonesboro Sun article Saturday reporting, amid a laundry list of possible candidates, that Thyer won’t run because of family considerations. Meantime, we have the [...]

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I was talking with a couple of politically savvy Democrats in the 1st District and they identified, very tentatively, I should say, a couple of early front-runners among heirs apparent to Marion Berry. One is Chad Causey, the congressman’s chief of staff, because he will have the congressman’s blessing. The potential downside is that, alas, Berry [...]

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UPDATE: Let’s put at the top that Clint Reed, consultant to Gilbert Baker’s campaign, sends an e-mail saying that he was assured by national Republican officials this afternoon that none of what I’ve written below is true UPDATE II — Baker texts in to say he’s absolutely not running for Congress. So there Here’s what seems to [...]

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The column lineup: Saturday — Blanche adheres to an Arkansas political truism: You win with the farm and business communities. But is this year different? Sunday — Beebe steps into the Senate race. Just kidding. But everyone else is. National — Drop health care, Dems. You blew it. You have an economy and a couple of wars, and [...]

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Here is part of my take on Massachusetts: There in no constituency for vast health care reform. Seniors fear erosion of Medicare services. People with insurance fear increased costs. The poorest people have Medicaid. Many of those without insurance are healthy younger folks who, while irresponsible, believe they have the right to roll the dice [...]

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Bill Halter – Probably get the nomination. General election little dicey. Climate not so good for perceived liberal advocating health care reform. Robbie Wills – Might be better than Halter for general election with Faulkner Countians ticket-splitting between Baker and him, but primary a challenge because his home base would be venturing to the GOP side [...]

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I hadn’t really thought until this morning that the Democrats might actually lose the Kennedy seat in Massachusetts on Tuesday. But then I saw that the Democratic candidate, Martha Coakley, had gone on a radio show and called Boston Red Sox pitching legend Curt Schilling a Yankees’ fan. That sounds to me like a seminal moment, [...]

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Columns in the can: Saturday — A new poll by Survey USA in Vic Snyder’s 2nd Congressional District suggests a Democratic apocalypse. UPDATE — Snyder announces he won’t run, citing three-baby family, not the poll. Sunday — Dave Bisbee isn’t unethical, just a smart-aleck. National — Defending Harry Reid as not racist, just goofy.

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Here The New York Times reports a medical study that says the platelet-rich plasma injections I got for my torn rotator cuff tendon — and about which I blogged at length a couple of week ago — were worthless. That I’m better — though, I admit, not well — is just the law of averages [...]

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