Joe Biden update: Iraq one of Obama’s ‘great achievements’ | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times
Vice-Dunce and his mouth, the gift that keep on giving.
Thank goodness, Vice President Joe Biden went on CNN to chat with Larry King Wednesday night. So many think things are not going so well for the Democrat administration, as The Ticket chronicled here.
Many Americans recall the ex-Sen. Biden's Democratic primary plans to give in to Iraq’s fractious factions and carve the country into three territories. And even more probably recall Biden’s boss’ plan to halt the Iraq war years ago. As long as it got started anyway without the permission of the then state senator.
Plus, of course, the vehement opposition of the Nobel Prize winner to the 2007 American troop surge of you-know-who from Texas that Obama knew for certain was only going to worsen sectarian strife there.
via Joe Biden update: Iraq one of Obama’s ‘great achievements’ | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times.
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment cancels Global Warming Mtg for Snow
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment cancels Global Warming Mtg for Snow.
The Death of Global Warming – Walter Russell Mead’s Blog – The American Interest
The movement died from two causes: bad science and bad politics.After years in which global warming activists had lectured everyone about the overwhelming nature of the scientific evidence, it turned out that the most prestigious agencies in the global warming movement were breaking laws, hiding data, and making inflated, bogus claims resting on, in some cases, no scientific basis at all. This latest story in the London Times is yet another shocker; the IPCC’s claims that the rainforests were going to disappear as a result of global warming are as bogus and fraudulent as its claims that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. It seems as if a scare story could grab a headline, the IPCC simply didn’t care about whether it was reality-based.
read the rest here… The Death of Global Warming – Walter Russell Mead’s Blog – The American Interest.
Pols: Tri-State Middle Class Not In Love With ‘New’ Obama – wcbstv.com
From his war on the banks — the lifeblood of the metropolitan area economy — to his health care reform which could cost taxpayers here over $1 billion, President Obama’s policies have sent a strong message to the tri-state area that Washington doesn’t care about the middle class.
Suddenly, he claims he wants to change that.
“The middle class feels beleaguered, and I think the message of Massachusetts, which I believe the president is now heeding, was pay attention to our plight. We’re not as worried about changing the health care system as we are about getting by week to week,” Sen. Charles Schumer said.
read the rest here… Pols: Tri-State Middle Class Not In Love With ‘New’ Obama – wcbstv.com.
Obama Campaigned Against Spending Freezes – RealClearPolitics
RealClearPolitics – Video – Obama Campaigned Against Spending Freeze.
YouTube – MSNBC’s Schultz- I’d Cheat To Keep Brown From Winning In Massachusetts
YouTube – MSNBC’s Schultz- I’d Cheat To Keep Brown From Winning In Massachusetts.
Passing health reform could be a nightmare for Obama – The Washington Post
…So Obama’s plan amounts to this: partial coverage of the uninsured; modest improvements (possibly) in their health; sizable budgetary costs worsening a bleak outlook; significant, unpredictable changes in insurance markets; weak spending control. This is a bad bargain. Health benefits are overstated, long-term economic costs understated. The country would be the worse for this legislation’s passage. What it’s become is an exercise in political symbolism: Obama’s self-indulgent crusade to seize the liberal holy grail of “universal coverage.” What it’s not is leadership.
read the rest here… Passing Health Reform Could Be a Nightmare for Obama
Our Year of Obama by Victor Davis Hanson on National Review Online
For millions of believers, Obama was to be our version of Truman or Eisenhower — centrist competence, but spiced up with 21st-century postracial pizzazz.
The people took Obama at his word, and here we are a year later with the largest drop in popularity of a first-year president in poll-taking history. A clear majority of the country is now opposed to almost all of the Obama program — more stimuli, bailouts, deficits, and takeovers; statist health care; cap-and-trade; and therapeutic-apology/reset-button diplomacy abroad.
I think it is a fair generalization to say that both the Right and the Left agree that Obama ran as a moderate in order to move America sharply to the left. The former calls it perfidy; the latter, necessary politics to achieve the desired ends. So what we now have is a progressive, grass-roots populist who is doing his best to obfuscate his own goals and ignore the desires of the great majority of the people.
read the rest here… Our Year of Obama by Victor Davis Hanson on National Review Online.
More than 150 years since such significant but unpopular legislation was passed through a partisan Congress. – Rasmussen Reports™
Expectations that Congress will pass health care reform in the coming year soared following the Senate’s Christmas Eve vote. Sixty-seven percent 67% now expect it to pass. Still, most voters continue to oppose the health care plan and 63% believe it will raise the cost of care. Most voters 54% also believe they personally will be worse off if the health care plan passes. Just 25% think they will be better off. A commentary by Michael Barone notes that it been more than 150 years since such significant but unpopular legislation was passed through Congress on a partisan basis.
Thirty-eight percent 38% now believe the economic stimulus plan passed earlier this year has hurt the economy. Just 30% believe it helped. That’s the first time since the legislation passed that a plurality offered a negative assessment.
read the rest here… Daily Presidential Tracking Poll – Rasmussen Reports™.
