Taft and the Repubs are losing their base!

Even the Wall Street Journal doesn't like them!

http://tinyurl.com/2dvqd

I don't know anyone who likes or respects Taft. Everyone I know, Democrat or Republican, thinks Taft is an annoying, principle-less little coward. Fortunately, we only have to deal with him for 2 and a half more years, then, hopefully, his sad political career will be over.

It's a shame the Ohio Democratic Party couldn't manager stronger candidates in 1998 and 2002. At least we get another shot in 2006 against someone new. Let's hope we can do better.

I know our prison population has increased from 21000 to 42000 since the 1980s (elsewhere I have heard 7000 to 49000 inmates). Medicaid payments for elderly and poor people have gone up. State share of education has gone up a bit, I think that that was enabled by larger tax receipts during the growth years of the 1990s.

The WSJ boogerheads are a bit weasely in this wording:

"Ohio has been more of a spectator than a participant in the country's economic recovery. More than 200,000 jobs have been lost in the past three years, and inflation is above the national average. "

The first sentence is about the recovery--what recovery? The whole country has a jobs deficit. What else should I expect from the partisans from the WSJ?