Even NPR, with their hedging, is pulling the alarm bell: In the Tier 1 seats, the Republican candidates lead 48%-44%. The GOP candidates are tied with the Democratic candidates at 45% each in Tier 2, and in the GOP seats (which are actually heavily Democratic), the GOPer leads 49%-42%. Combined across the 86 Democrat-held seats, the GOPer leads 46%-44%. ….Not every one of those Dem | Read More »
Jonathan Cohn’s brain really does live in another dimension. Or at least some place the laws of reality do not apply, I assume happily skipping through the tulips making up the world he lives in. It is the only possible conclusion to draw from his piece in The New Republic that states the Speaker will lose her job because she did not succeed in passing | Read More »
David Axelrod and President Obama allowed undisclosed (secret) donors to give to their campaign in 2008, documented by the Washington Post, here. And David Axelrod and President Obama took PhRMA money — more than Rove’s $50 million — to fund their commercials run against Democrats to pass their ObamaCare plan. So, on principle, it is clear that despite what Axelrod and Obama say, they have | Read More »
The most up to date generic ballot average of a number of different polls, as published by RealClearPolitics, shows it at +5.8 for the GOP. Interestingly, the Gallop likely voter analysis, which they have been perfecting since the 1950s — i.e. more than half a century — shows that the high turn out model puts the GOP generic at +13 and Gallup’s low turnout model | Read More »
HE did everything: “.. I came in and had to prevent a Great Depression, restore the financial system so that it functions, and manage two wars. In the midst of all that, I ended one of those wars, at least in terms of combat operations. We passed historic healthcare legislation, historic financial regulatory reform and a huge number of legislative victories that people don’t even | Read More »
In this election there are two things that virtually every poll shows Americans care about — jobs and government spending. There is an issue which perfectly encapsulates these concerns: the extra engine for the F35, Joint Strike Fighter. On the spending front it means a $3 billion earmark. On the jobs front it means jobs for Britons working in Rolls Royce factories — not Americans | Read More »
This is the Dems improving? “The public is divided on the overall job he is doing now: 44 percent say they approve, while 45 percent disapprove in a new CBS News poll – virtually unchanged from last month. “The president’s rating on the economy, however, has taken a further plunge in the poll. Now, only 38 percent say they approve of the job he is | Read More »
Gee, what do you think The One meant by his warning that a Republican Congress will mean “hand to hand combat“? I think it means that those who think Obama will follow the strategy of former President Bill Clinton, and become more moderate after a Republican take-over of Congress, have not talked to the President. Exactly what about the phrase “hand to hand combat” sounds | Read More »
The Democrats should remember this phrase on election night. The public is going to get its vengence for the passage of ObamaCare over their objections. Vengence for being dissed by the Dems. This is what the Jonestown Kool Aid Brigade of Obama, Axelrod and Pelosi has wrought. “Persistence is often met with vengence.”
The Democrats and others on the left have been counting on ObamaCare becoming an ingrained part of America, once it was signed into law. Just like any other entitlement — never end, never change. The fundamental part of this assumption that is wrong is that the Democrats assume that all the things they said about the law were true, mainly because they absolutely refused to | Read More »
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that laws must be applied equally, to everyone. But as we see, the Goddess of Health Care at HHS has given exceptions from the provisions of ObamaCare to unions and others. Unequal application of the law has led to many an upheaval — and the “exemptions all over the place” approach to the “enforcement” of ObamaCare has | Read More »
The NPR poll early in the political season discovered this jewel of predictive election results: the generic ballot in the more than 60 swing House seats NPR’s pollsters identified. Not surprisingly, the generic ballot in these swing districts, NPR found, indicated a wave that would result in the end of Speaker Pelosi. Now, another extensive poll has found even worse generic ballot numbers inside swing | Read More »
Once again, we see the lesson in politics, cowardice kills. Those Dems — as in all of them — who did not have the courage or the fortitude to really very seriously oppose Pelosi’s Jonestown Kool-Aid drinking party that lasted the entire Congress, and included cap and tax, ObamaCare, teacher’s bailouts, auto bailouts, bank bailouts, tax hikes and Medicare cuts are now paying the price. | Read More »
Here is a thought: perhaps the ruling class and their running dog microphones and television broadcasts — otherwise known as the mainstream media — have had their way for so long to determine what is fact or not, what is reasonable or not, and their collective effort to attack and discredit any who are not from their mindset — has finally back-fired. To be attacked | Read More »
More arrogance from The New Republic: “And I certainly intend no disrespect. Those of us who follow politics closely have the time, and information, to figure out what’s really going on in Washington. The majority of Americans are preoccupied holding onto their jobs, paying their bills, and taking care of their families. Confusion isn’t necessarily a failure on their [American public’s] part. In many if | Read More »
From Fortune: * Obama started his Presidency with a +44 approval rating, it is now at -2.5. * When Obama was elected, the Dems in Congress were at +14 in the Generic Ballot. Now the GOP is at +8, a -22 point swing for the Dems. * The latest Gallup poll shows voter enthusiasm for the Dems is at 30% whereas the GOP voter enthusiasm | Read More »
From Politico: “The six-month-old law is one of the key planks in the wave of anti-government, anti-spending sentiment that threatens Democratic lawmakers this fall. Just 38 percent of Americans supported the overhaul in a Pew Research Center/National Journal Congressional Connection poll released earlier this week.” So, instead of listening to the American people and changing their approach, policies or recognizing the political failure of ObamaCare, | Read More »
The Associated Press reported the following on Friday: WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama told voters repeatedly during the health care debate that the overhaul legislation would bring down fast-rising health care costs and save them money. Now, he’s hemming and hawing on that. So far, the law he signed earlier this year hasn’t had the desired effect. An analysis from Medicare’s Office of the | Read More »
If you haven’t noticed, ObamaCare is the political gift that keeps on giving to the GOP. As its provisions come closer to implementation, the millstone known as ObamaCare that is attached to a noose around your necks will get tighter. We will never stop attacking it. Its passage was illegitimate. The public hates it. So, here’s the deal: repeal for peace. After you’ve done with | Read More »
William Galston writing in The New Republic, is quite clear in his lucid conclusions drawn from recent polling about how the public views of Congress: “they also believe by a 2 to 1 margin that if they leave Congress in Democrats’ hands, Obama’s program is what they’ll get.” ObamaCare burned it into the public’s soul that the White House does not care what the public | Read More »
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