Gallup: Americans Increasingly Worried About Bigger Government

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  July 23rd at 05:34 PM  | 

This is yet one more poll that ought to worry Democrats: USA Today/Gallup poll shows that 59% of Americans say President Obama’s proposals to address the major problems facing the country call for too much government spending, and 52% say Obama’s proposals call for too much expansion of government power.

The Economy Gets Better and Better

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  July 9th at 12:59 PM  | 

I’ve written before about the glowing coverage Barack Obama receives despite the consistently terrible economic news. Today provides yet another example: Fewer than expected file for unemployment The number of Americans filing initial unemployment claims fell sharply last week, while those filing ongoing claims rose to another all-time high, according to government data released Thursday. There were 565,000 initial jobless claims filed in the week | Read More »

CNN: 473,000 Lost Jobs=Improvement

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  July 1st at 10:09 AM  | 

George Bush would have killed for coverage like this. Considering the surprising strength of the economy in the wake of the September 11 attacks, he’d be posing for Mount Rushmore if the press had treated him the way they are treating Obama: Job market shows some improvement …Automatic Data Processing, a payroll-processing firm, said private-sector employers cut 473,000 jobs in June, a 2.5% improvement from | Read More »