Archive for June, 2009
Obama Approval Numbers Remain Sky High
While some news outfits are nitpicking the results from the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll to highlight small reductions in support for some of President Obama’s policy initiatives, the glaring fact in the poll is the the president’s approval ratings - the hallmark number in presidential polls - remain historically high at 65 percent.
Overall, […]
Mark Sanford, Extreme Hiker?
While the office of Republican South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford already assured the press and the public that the governor was no longer missing and had been found somewhere, more detailed information on the whereabouts of the ostensibly former 2012 presidential contender has come out this morning.
Sanford’s spokesman gave out the breathless news that Gov. […]
Mark Sanford Is/Isn’t MIA
And we mean “missing in action” in the most literal sense.
You see, South Carolina Gov. Sanford needed some down time after losing a lawsuit over his opposition to using Obama stimulus funds and having all of his legislative vetoes overturned by his own party that he needed some R&R. So the governor decided to […]
Necessary?
Gallup is running a - gasp! - “daily tracking poll” on President Obama’s approval rating. It’s made some big news today as Gallup released the latest version that shows the president’s rating dipping below 60 percent.
Do we need another daily tracking poll?
Will this thing ever sniff accuracy?
Do we care?
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Obama Defends Iran Policy, Takes On Familiar Foe
(CBS)
As the tension over the contested Iranian elections and subsequent grass roots protests continues to simmer, President Obama took the opportunity to hit back at criticism from Republicans that he was being too soft on the mullahs and hard-liners in Iran over the apparently rigged election and brutal crackdown on protesters. The president’s words […]
Obama Lobbies For Health Care Reform
President Obama travels home to Chicago for a few hours today to lobby some of the staunchest industry critics of his sweeping proposals for health care reform in what is being billed by the White House as a “major” speech and event..
The president will deliver remarks to the American Medical Association that will “lay out […]
An Angry “Party Of No”
When things get tough, the Republican Party gets angry. The anti-Obama wing of the GOP is alive and well, unlike the fortunes of the party as a whole.
Republicans in Washington are offering up some of the strongest language yet in their efforts to distinguish themselves from the 5-month-old Obama administration’s economic policies.
In recent weeks, GOP […]
Bush Defends Sotomayor
That would be the Bush that first nominated her for a seat on a federal court…
In a birthday interview with CNN, George H.W. Bush contends that President Obama’s SCOTUS nominee has a “distinguished record” and that it’s “not fair” for conservative Republicans like Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh to call her a racist.
Former President George […]
Raging Palin
The GOP’s loudest critics of a “biased” and “elitist” media is again using that same media to further her own political goals and personal celebrity as well as a tool in her latest feud, a nasty fight with David Letterman. Palin is on another tour of the cable and broadcast airwaves to fire back at […]
Obama Comments On Iranian Election
With a hotly contested election in Iran still undecided amidst “unprecedented” turnout and claims of victory from both Ahmadinejad and his challenger, President Obama took time to offer his carefully worded thoughts on the landmark election and any role his own victory and his recent trip to the Middle East had to play in the […]
