We Don't Want No Stinkin' Teachers

++The great Obama gaffe, which got all the media atwitter, the contempt hearings on Attorney General Holder, the car crash of the Commerce Secretary and the flagging economy were part of the President's worse week. Take in mind that nothing really happened politically. So how did he fare with the polls--his approval rating hit 50% in the Gallup poll. 


++Meanwhile Romney thinking he has the President on the ropes lashed out at teachers, firefighters and the police saying that the lessons of Wisconsin was that people don't want the government to hire anymore. When even Scott Walker comes out and criticizes Romney on this saying,"teachers, police and firefighters aren't what I mean by Big Government", you have a problem. Romney's remark also coincided with some of the largest fires in the Western states. But in the new GOP tradition, he doubled down on telling states that as President he wouldn't help them.


++The Obama campaign cut several ads taking on Romney's statement and also pointing out that he did the same to Massachusetts. The Obama campaign, which had been criticized for taking on Bain Capitol, has found their Bain ads are very effective in the swing states as one working class member of the focus groups said, "They scare the hell out of me." 


++Romney has announced he will go on one of those awful bus tours of Swing states, including Michigan, in the next month. Mark Halperin, who becomes more of a hack every day, said Michigan would make it a game-changer. Democrats are complaining to the Obama people that they have spent not a dime in advertising in Michigan while Romney is pouring money in.


++Old focus groups in 2002 have surfaced that women find Romney "snobby" and are less likely to vote for him because of his condescension. Better for his incredible anti-woman's policies.


++While Hispanics still favor Obama by an extraordinary 45 points, Hispanic leaders met with the President to complain about his immigration policy. After all, he has deported over 1 million Latinos in the last three years. They have a point but the GOP never picked up on it.


++Jeb Bush has been drummed out of the Republican Party for saying that there was no room in the party anymore for Ronald Reagan and his father George H.W. Bush because of the intolerance for compromise and taxes. Grover Norquist, the Grand Inquisitor, loudly lambasted Jeb and falsely praised Reagan for his tax policies.


++Alan Lichter appeared on NPR again to calm people by saying deposing an incumbent President is tough business even if you have all the money in the world. He basically ran through past elections to demonstrate the horse race nature of the campaigns at this point. Basically, he said "Take a Chill pill."  One leftwing blogger said that he felt confident in Obama's chances because all the Left now is complaining about him again, which means they are confident too. Usually he says they are quiet when doubt occurs.