We’re a couple of hours into the trading day, and it is election day in Massachusetts. Reports continue to come in that there are almost no signs visible for Coakely (except for the ones illegally placed too close to polling places), and little enthusiasm among Coakley supporters. Reports also continue to come in about wild enthusiasm and optimism among Brown supporters. Lots of news websites | Read More »
Final polls released the day before the Massachusetts special Senate election show a widening lead for Republican Scott Brown over Democrat State AG Martha Coakley. The latest bad news for President Obama comes from a poll conducted for Politico.com by Insider Advantage: “I actually think the bottom is falling out,” said InsiderAdvantage CEO Matt Towery, referring to Coakley’s fall in the polls over the last | Read More »
Intrade now shows Brown favored by nearly a 2 to 1 margin. Current values are Brown at 65.0, up 12.5, with 66.0 required to buy, and Coakley at 35.0, down 12.9, with 39.2 to buy. Expect Coakley’s people to start burning up Intrade with buys to try to lift her sagging numbers before this is noticed and commented on. Intrade may be of dubious value | Read More »
It was a big laugh line for you in your Massachusetts rally for Martha Coakley. Poke fun at the Republican candidate driving a pick-up truck in political ads. “Anybody can buy a truck!” Well, no, Mr. President. Everybody can not buy a truck. Not in your America they can’t. U.S. auto sales had their sharpest decline in 2009 since World War II. That was the | Read More »
Charlie Cook, writing in the National Journal has an opinion piece scheduled for tomorrow that basically writes the obituary for the Obama agenda, and the Democrat majorities in the House and the Senate. Cook title the piece, “Colossal Miscalculation on Health Care” and says some very interesting things about where Obama, Pelosi and Reid went wrong. He talks about how little can be done by | Read More »
Greg Sargent of The Plum Line is reporting that Martha Coakley, in a private conference call this afternoon with top Democrat donors, said that the surge of Scott Brown to a dead-heat with her for the Senate seat in Massachusetts “frightened” her. Sargent had an opportunity to listen in on the call and was reporting based on what he himself heard the candidate say about | Read More »
There are currently 33,434,730 people unemployed in America. That figure comes from Bureau of Labor Department statistics, and is much higher than the 15 million unemployed officially reported by the Obama administration. The number of people in America who are unemployed but not officially counted as unemployed by the government is about equal to the entire population of the state of Massachusetts…plus the state populations | Read More »
It’s that time again. This morning, the Department of Labor released the official statistics for U.S. unemployment last month. And just as the Obama administration promised, things are getting better. Right? Wrong. Optimists were looking for the first signs of net job creation last month since 2007. At worst, they were hoping for the jobless rate to hold steady at 10.0%. And the worst is | Read More »
The scene: The Oval Office. ENTER White House chief of staff RAHM EMANUEL, looking distracted and somewhat worried. BARACK OBAMA, The Boy President®, is seated at his desk. He looks up, puts down the latest Golf Digest after looking at his picture on the cover one more time, and glances quizzically at his aide. BO: “What’s up, Rahm?” RE: “Mr. President, we have another problem | Read More »
Now that Senator Reid apparently has the 60 votes he needs for cloture, and it looks certain that the “health care reform” (sic) Bill will pass the Senate, there is an interesting development that is passing almost unnoticed. And it may make the passage of the Bill completely moot in the long-run. The Chinese government yesterday made what may be the most definitive and important | Read More »
UPDATED: President Obama met China’s Premier, Wen Jiabao, on the Asian Apology Tour. As I predicted, President Obama bowed again, this time in a country in which bowing is considered an outdated custom indicative of a servile position at odds with the “social equality” that is part of the Communist philosophy. At a “Town Hall” style meeting the Chinese government set up for him in | Read More »
While I fully agree with Erick Erickson’s post that that the health care bill must not be just about abortion, I, and a lot of other Americans, are now on the horns of a true moral dilemma. The Democrats seem to be making publically-funded abortion another litmus test for their health care legislation, along with the “public option.” And that means that if the current | Read More »
President Obama bowed to the Emperor of Japan on his current tour of Asia. It was a full bow, with his upper body almost at right angles to the ground. Here’s the video: Here’s what the New York Times had to say about the President of the United States bowing to the Emperor of Japan: …the image…was indelible: an obsequent President, and the Emperor of | Read More »
Doug Hoffman conceded defeat on election night after being told that he was down by more than 5,300 votes with 93% of the vote counted, and that he had nearly lost his own stronghold of Oswego County. His concession allowed Bill Owens to be sworn in as Representative of the 23rd District in New York–and after breaking four of his campaign promises within the first | Read More »
What if the Fort Hood shooter had been named Major Joseph Robert Lee, instead of Major Nidal Malik Hasan? What if he had been a Caucasian born in Selma, Alabama, instead of an Arab-American born in Arlington, Virginia? What if knowledge of his family roots had caused Joseph Robert Lee to list his nationality as Confederate States of America rather than “United States of America,” | Read More »
Dave Camp, ranking Republican member of the House Ways and Means Committee, today released a letter from the Joint Committee on Taxation revealing that the Pelosi health care bill currently being forced to the floor for a vote (H.R. 3962) includes a penalty of imprisonment of up to five years, and fines of up to $250,000 for failure to maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage. And | Read More »
The official U.S. unemployment rate hit 10.2% in October, the highest since the recession of 1983. But bad as that is, at least we are nowhere near the unemployment levels of the Great Depression, right? Wrong. That official 10.2% figure really doesn’t tell the truth about unemployment in America. The real unemployment figure is more than twice the official 10.2% rate–a lot higher than you | Read More »
If you are a Republican strategist, Party leader or candidate for election in 2010, looking at the multitude of current polls is probably giving you lots of reasons to feel good. Republicans are generally leading or at least heavily competitive in generic Congressional ballots. That hasn’t happened in several years. For the first time in a long time, polls show that Republicans are trusted by | Read More »
The Dow has closed about 350 points as I write this, and if the 777 point drop on Monday is “blamed” on the House rejecting the Pelosi Bailout Bill, then we have to blame this drop on the Senate passing their version of a Bailout last night. Fair is fair. When you factor in the Dow gain on Tuesday, the two net drops are close | Read More »
The few–the very few–who voted against the Bailout tonight. 15 Republicans, 9 Democrats and 1 Independent. Allard (R) Barasso (R) Brownback (R) Bunning (R) Cochran (R) Crapo (R) DeMint (R) Dole (R) Enzi (R) Inhofe (R) Roberts (R) Sessions (R) Shelby (R) Vitter (R) Wicker (R) Sanders (I) Cantwell (D) Dorgan (D) Feingold (D) Johnson (D) Landrieu (D) Nelson (FL) (D) Stabenow (D) Tester (D) | Read More »
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