http://www.redstate.com/bk Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:18:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Rasmussen reports this morning that support in the public has dropped below 40% for the first time. It had never been below 41% before, but it plunged to 38% this week. First poll at the end of June had it 50-45 in favor; latest one has it 38-56 against, a double-digit shift ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/11/23/health-care-support-falling-off-a-cliff-according-to-rasmussen/ Sarah Palin is making a stop at Fort Bragg as part of the tour to promote her book. The Army has decided to keep the press away, allegedly fearing it will turn into a circus. I don't have a problem with that, but piece together the spokesman's comments and see ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/11/20/palin-at-ft-bragg-army-says-obama-can-politicize-the-military/ ABC is reporting that one of the clauses in ReidCare applies to any state that "is one of the 50 States or the District of Columbia, for which, at any time during the preceding 7 fiscal years, the President has declared a major disaster under section 401 of the Robert ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/11/19/100m-in-reidcare-for-landrieus-vote/ Obama in his February address to a joint session of Congress: "...I have ordered the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and will seek swift and certain justice for captured terrorists. Because living our values doesn't make us weaker, it makes us safer and it makes us stronger." Obama ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/11/18/obama-admits-he-doesnt-care-that-hes-making-us-weaker-and-less-safe/ The corner points to Breitbart's unveiling of Obama on the floor of the Senate in 2006. He says that "the vast majority of people at Guantanamo are there for a reason" and a lot of them are "dangerous people". He says the most dangerous ones - naming KSM - will ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/11/15/obama-in-2006-ksm-will-get-a-full-military-trial/ Over at the corner, Mark Steyn reports that the AP paid 11 "reporters" to dig up dirt on Sarah Palin's book. They dug and dug and, even after stretching the truth themselves a great deal, they still only managed to find a grand total of 6 comments worthy of fact[sic]-checking. It's ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/11/14/ap-tries-to-assault-sarah-palin/ Wow - you can't make this sort of stuff up. President Barack Obama plans to announce in next year's State of the Union address that he wants to focus extensively on cutting the federal deficit in 2010 – and will downplay other new domestic spending beyond jobs programs, according to top ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/11/13/obama-next-year-ill-work-on-reducing-the-deficit-i-exploded-this-year/ The quote last week that caught my eye shows that a good deal of blame can be placed on political correctness. "I told him, 'There's something wrong with you,'" Osman Danquah, co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen, told The Associated Press on Saturday. "I didn't get the feeling he ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/11/09/gen-casey-lines-us-up-for-the-next-hasan/ Yesterday when they thought the guy was dead, they offered a condemnation. Last night - perhaps after learning the perp was still wasting oxygen - we got half an obligatory-sounding condemnation and half a diatribe about horrible racist non-Muslims who might believe the guy's religion was not a coincidence. “We reiterate ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/11/06/cair-revises-and-extends-its-remarks/ No doubt people recall how the press was all over President Bush when the Secret Service kept him in that classroom on 9/11 and questioned his every move after that. "Why was he hiding?" Yesterday Obama waited hours before mentioning Fort Hood, and then it was using seemingly prepared remarks. But ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/11/06/let-me-give-a-shoutout-before-i-talk-about-the-shootout/ GM reneged on a deal to sell Opel to some Russian-Canadian consortium. Angry German workers on Thursday protested General Motors' shock refusal to sell its European unit Opel and its plans to cut 10,000 jobs, moves slammed as a slap in the face for Chancellor Angela Merkel. Around 10,000 workers demonstrated at ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/11/05/obama-throws-merkel-under-the-bus/ We can only hope that the Democrats in 2010 continue to whine that everything is Bush's fault. Here we are a year after the election and 9-1/2 months into Obama's presidency, and he is still whining. One year on, Obama cites struggle with Bush legacy Thu Nov 5, 2009 4:04am IST By Ross ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/11/05/obama-its-still-bushs-fault/ This thing is 42 pages long. Some of it is fixing typos. Here are a few pieces that may be key in terms of trying to snag a few moderate votes. There was nothing related to abortion that I could find. Note: Any typos below are due to how Acrobat ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/11/04/dingell-amendment-to-pelosicare-is-this-the-final-carrot-to-the-moderates/ I haven't come across anyone making this connection yet, though surely I'm not the first. (Yeah I know - don't call you 'Shirley'.) The President obviously spent many many hours campaigning for Corzine and others. Not just his time on the ground there, but travel time, discussions from the White ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/11/04/yet-another-insult-to-mccrystal-and-our-troops-from-obama/ We heard about a billion times that the events in NY-23 proved that the GOP is divided and wants to get rid of all the moderates. Funny that this AP story doesn't appear until right after the election is over. Get on the health overhaul bandwagon, or don't count on our ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/11/04/werent-we-just-bombarded-with-claims-that-the-divided-gop-hates-moderates/ The House Ethics Committee has seven active investigations going. All are against black Democrats. And this doesn't include William Jefferson of course, since he's already gone. Nor does it include Jesse Jackson Jr, who would make it 8 for 8, since the Justice Dept asked them to hold off while ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/11/04/house-ethics-committee-vs-congressional-black-caucus/ Owens would be such a wonderful, independent Congressman you have to wonder why Dede even ran against him to begin with. The local paper gave more details than most other on-line articles. Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., was among those who urged Dierdre K. Scozzafava to endorse Democratic congressional candidate William ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/11/02/you-have-to-love-the-comments-in-the-dede-owens-lovefest/ ... if by "tort reform" you mean "removing limitations on malpractice attorneys". This section seems to start out promisingly enough. States will get extra "incentive" money if the HHS Secretary determines that a state passed an effective "medical liability reform" law after Obamacare has passed. (It doesn't address the case where ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/10/31/pelosis-bill-does-include-tort-reform/ Here is the breakdown. My apologies in advance - I'm a math nerd at heart. Total cost of this bill: $1.055 trillion But hold on a sec you say - Pelosi says cost is $894 billion. Well you see, penalties on individuals and companies are expected to be $161 billion. Let's just ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/10/30/pelosicare-how-to-turn-a-13t-plan-into-a-claim-of-104b-in-deficit-reduction/ The Democrats seem to be laying the groundwork for stealing the election if it's close. (H/T: the Corner) The state received about 150,000 absentee ballot applications this year. On about 2,300 of those applications so far, the signature on the request form did not match the signature on the voter’s registration forms ... http://www.redstate.com/bk/2009/10/29/it-sounds-like-the-fix-is-under-way-in-new-jersey/