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US Senate Briefing, Tue 9/7/10: Trashing Son of Porkulus
In a must-read editorial this morning, The Wall Street Journal writes, “[T]wo months before an election, and 19 months after the mother of all spending programs, President Obama said yesterday he’s rolling out one more plan to stimulate the economy. . . . [T]he effort itself is a tacit admission that his earlier proposals have flopped.” [...]
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US House Whip-Up Report, Tue 9/7/10: Obama has failed the economy
Last year’s $800 billion stimulus failed to meet the administration’s own standards in such a dramatic fashion that it turned the word ‘stimulus’ into a forbidden phrase. Yet as the unemployment rate hovers around 10 percent and private sector job growth lags, President Obama and his team has decided to call a play from the [...]
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Gov. Christie’s new ad looks like a national ad: The Christie Reform Agenda
Looks to me like this is a national political ad, albeit it’s a New Jersey centered ad, where it accentuates Governor Christie’s record and future agenda in reforming the budget, education, pensions, and salaries, as well as pushing forth a tax-cutting agenda. Is Christie going national? Watch the ad here
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Toyota on road to exoneration over acceleration issue
Finally, and after the Obama Administration has repeatedly refused to release the data: THE RESULTS are not definitive, but a preliminary report on sudden acceleration from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has some good news for Toyota Motor Corp. Of the 58 data recorders analyzed by the agency and the company, 35 showed [...]
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Your historical guide to convert Generic Congressional Polls into seats
Here’s a post I did several months back that explains the entire Generic Congressional Poll game. With all the buzz now that polls show pubs leading by 7 to 13 points, it seemed worth bringing up again. The quick shot is in the lower half of the post – one chart and one table, different [...]
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Not good: Hizballah strikes US troops in Iraq
We better resolve this problem fast: These developments make nonsense of the dire predictions heard from some American military experts that an Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities would unleash a wave of anti-US terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is happening anyway without Israel lifting a finger against Iran or its aggressive allies. … [...]
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Epic fail: Abbas against ‘even one concession’ in Washington-brokered peace talks
Abbas is such a child. Check out this: Abbas told Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds while visiting Libya “I’ll grab my briefcase and leave” if he’s pressured to make concessions, namely on 1967 borders, refugees and other issues. He’s telling us that when Bibi said “recognition and security” are the two main objectives of Israel that the [...]
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Dems will lost the House district by district, and are powerless to change that
Stuart Rothenberg has a good analysis. To win how the dems need to win is beyond their financial capabilities. We’ve been saying this for a few months, and it’s good to see the Beautiful People joining the chorus. I do have one issue with the article. Check out this sentence: Independent voters continue to resemble [...]
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About that WaPo poll that shows dems drowning
It’s all bad news for dems, even though WaPo couches a lot of it. But don’t get caught up in the details for now. Here is what WaPo will do in the next eight weeks: Their next polls will be written up compared to this one – and they will declare the rising hopes of [...]
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Brits nail Obama for ‘dog’ comment
This is great: Just when it seemed that Barack Obama couldn’t dig himself any deeper into the political hole he’s in, he does something really stupid. “Some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time and they’re not always happy with me,” he told a union crowd in [...]
