Democrats Against Democracy
For weeks, President Obama has been demanding an “up or down
vote” on health care legislation. So where is the president now
that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she would like to pass the
Senate health care bill in the House without allowing an up or
down vote on [...]
HCR Summit: Tipping the Scales
President Obama is frustrated. He chastised Sen. Jon Kyl, the minority whip, and Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin for making the health care debate about whether Washington knows best. That "tips the scales," Obama said (I'm quoting from memory), because "everybody is angry at Washington right now."
Exactly! Everybody is "angry" at Washington right now because [...]
Obama filled voters with hope during campaign, but can he succeed in channeling their anger?
Thrust into office on the veracity of hope, President Barack Obama is trying to get himself on the right side of a remarkably different national sentiment these days: anger.
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Rasmussen’s ‘passion index’ has Obama at -17
Dear Leader’s approval continues to tank among likely voters, as shown by Rasmussen’s daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday with just twenty-four percent (24%) of the nation’s voters Strongly Approving of the way Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of [...]
Tea Party Majority
Scott Rasmussen finds that 75% of likely voters are either “very angry” or “somewhat angry” about the federal government’s current policies. A plurality of 45% are “very angry,” up nine points since September. A mere 19% say they are not very or not at all angry about the federal government’s policies.
That’s [...]
Disadvantaged
From the Politico:
Appearing at a rally at Northeastern University here, President Obama said out-of-power Republicans had taken advantage of the economic crisis to make Democrats the political fall guy during difficult times….
Obama offered his own analysis of the voters’ anger.
“There were going to be some who stood on the sidelines, who were protectors of [...]
