The Current Tally
Byron York’s sources say their best estimate is that there are now 204 votes for the government health care takeover bill, 209 votes against it, and 18 undecided. The good news, one could infer, is that the Republicans only have to carry seven of the 18 to block the bill, while the Democrats have [...]
Ding dong the wicked witch is dead. . .they wish
Leftist law professor David Cole got the Washington Post to publish a piece with the juvenile title (in the print edition): “We don’t have to listen to Dick Cheney ever again (Thanks, Liz!).” Consider this a wish fulfillment dream.
No one ever had to listen to Dick Cheney, an ex-vice president with an approval [...]
Fox News Poll: Majority of Americans Think Obama Better at Campaigning Than Governing
As though we really needed a poll to tell us this; after all, we’re reminded of Obama’s ineptitude at governance every time he opens his mouth.
Fox News poll: The consensus among American voters is Barack Obama is better at campaigning for the job than at doing the job.
Looking at the issues, President Obama receives [...]
2010 and 1994, Cont.
Yesterday, I noted that the media are quickly catching on to the fact that there's a chance, however small, that Congress may change hands in November. This wasn't the case in 1994 — back then, folks didn't feel the first tremors of the coming political earthquake until the summertime, and those who did tended to [...]
Not a double-down but at least a down and a half
Perhaps the best way to evaluate tonight’s State of the Union speech is to speculate about how it will have sounded to independents and centrists. After all, their defection is mainly what has elected Republicans and driven down President Obama’s approval rating.
Since I’m not an independent, it isn’t easy to put myself in their [...]
Will the Spending Freeze Be Obama’s Immigration Reform?
President Obama is a highly polarizing figure. The Gallup organization says that the "65 percentage-point gap between Democrats' (88%) and Republicans' (23%) average job approval ratings for Barack Obama is easily the largest for any president in his first year in office, greatly exceeding the prior high of 52 points for Bill Clinton." Thus Obama's [...]
