Ran across this stat on This Week with George Stephanopoulos:

 

Legislation / GOP Support

9/11 Commission / 68 votes

Minimum Wage / 82 votes

Stem Cells / 37 votes

Drug Costs / 24 votes

Student Loans / 124 votes

Energy Policy 36 votes

(Average = 62)

 

Intersting, isn't it? Kinda makes you wonder (amongst other things) why student loans weren't fixed during the previous Congress.

 

George Will made the point that the student loan thing is interesting because it essentially amounts to a subsidy for profitable banks and middle class college graduates! An amusing point, to be sure, but I think it's one to chalk up to sanity and reason. Thank god they didn't look at it that way!

George Will made the point that the student loan thing is interesting because it essentially amounts to a subsidy for profitable banks and middle class college graduates! An amusing point, to be sure, but I think it's one to chalk up to sanity and reason. Thank god they didn't look at it that way!

 

A subsidy for colleges as well. I would think either party would be interested in helping the middle class?

we're not poor enough to feel sorry for, nor rich enough for people to take seriously.

we're not poor enough to feel sorry for, nor rich enough for people to take seriously.

 

But we're numerous and pushy, which means that both parties aim their rhetoric primarily at us, and have to throw us bones on a regular basis or face revolt from their respective bases and indifference from swing voters.