Thirty-eight percent of independents approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as president, the first time independent approval of Obama has dropped below 40% in a Gallup Daily tracking weekly aggregate. [...] Over the past year, Obama has lost support among all party groups, though the decline has been steeper among independents than among [...]
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Frank and Paul Join Demand for Military Cuts
Since the BP blowout, and the lies and broken promises from the oil giant, didn’t inspire Pres. Obama to lead an economic energy revolution (or fire Ken Salazar for his part in the ecological holocaust), I’m not sure anything will move our Congress to cut our military overspending. However, I support it unequivocally. Reps. Frank [...]
Mitt Romney, the Anti-Reagan
…and the 2012 positioning has begun, as the right-wing hyperbole goes where Ronald Reagan never went before. Otherwise known as the day Mitt Romney drew a new cold war line in the sand. Too bad he didn’t do his homework. Ronald Reagan wouldn’t embrace Romney’s “worst foreign policy mistake” nonsense any more than the Republicans [...]
Are Tea Party and Republicans Heartless?
Gallup came out with a weird poll recently on patriotism. CNS, a wingnut site, has a post up trumpeting results that make no sense, but are a favorite talking point of the right. In a nutshell: Conservatives Are More Than Twice as Likely as Liberals to Be Strongly Patriotic, Says Gallup Poll. Truth is that [...]
Michael Steele, Phone Home
Updated with Democratic comic relief below. You are, I know, a patriot. So I ask you to consider, over this July 4 weekend, doing an act of service for the country you love: Resign as chairman of the Republican party. – Bill Kristol, in an open letter in the Weekly Standard Huffington Post focusing on [...]
2010: The Democratic Enthusiasm Gap
With the mid-terms four months away, this is where it stands according to PPP. Think 2006: The Republican Party now holds about the same advantage in enthusiasm among its party’s voters that the Democratic Party held in June 2006 and the GOP had late in the 1994 campaign. Moreover, more Republicans than Democrats are now [...]
Sen. Robert Byrd: From KKK to Voting for Obama
“The case this Administration tries to make to justify its fixation with war is tainted by charges of falsified documents and circumstantial evidence. We cannot convince the world of the necessity of this war for one simple reason. This is a war of choice. “There is no credible information to connect Saddam Hussein to 9/11. [...]
Inside the Tea Party
Max Blumenthal goes inside the Tea Party from Ram Bam on Vimeo.
Republicans Stiff Unemployed
Senate Democrats on Thursday failed for a third time to advance legislation to extend unemployment benefits through November. In a 57-41 vote, the Senate failed to end debate on the legislation. – The Hill The Tea Party has Republicans by their inner deficit hawk. Because they sure didn’t have any problems with adding to the [...]
So, You Want Out of Afghanistan?
…But in turning to the nation’s most prominent general, Obama has embraced a commander who may become a formidable advocate for slowing, or arresting outright, the pace of troop reductions next summer. [...] – Petraeus could provide calming influence after leadership change Pres. Obama and the administration have succeeded in squeezing the left and the [...]
2010: Conservative Women on a State House Roll
Even before Haley had officially become the nominee, the Republican Governors Association had all-but-endorsed her — recognizing that an Indian-American woman as their nominee was a terrific national storyline. Given Haley’s background and the primacy of South Carolina in the 2012 Republican presidential primary process, she will almost certainly become a national figure in short [...]
Joe Barton Is the Republican Energy Policy
originally posted at Huffington Post “I don’t know about that,” (Rand) Paul said, when asked about Barton’s statement during an appearance on WVLK-AM radio on Friday. “I don’t want to pile on him. … I know what that feels like. What I will say is I have never liked the tone of the president when [...]
Politics and the Israeli Flotilla Raid Investigations
–updated– President Barack Obama’s point-man for his latest approach to the Muslim world is John Brennan, the White House’s counterterrorism czar, recently described by the Washington Post as one of the president’s most trusted advisers. Two weeks ago Brennan explained to a Washington audience that “we need to try to build up the more moderate [...]
Bill Clinton as Asset Makes People Say Crazy Things
He pointed out that President Obama’s approval ratings are much lower in these competitive districts than they are nationally: 54 percent of the likely battleground voters disapproved of Obama’s performance; 40 percent approved. “It’s very problematic for the president to have a 40 percent approval rating in these 60 Democratic districts,” Bolger said. “When you [...]
The Teflon Whiner
“In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11.. I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come.” – Pres. Barack Obama If only Pres. Barack Obama had personally reacted as if the [...]
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