Archive for August, 2011
Interestingly… Obama’s poll numbers are rising…
Gallup has just released a report regarding its findings from its polling from January until June of this year of each individual state. Gallup interviewed 90,000 American adults over the course of the last six month, and they found that the President is above 50% in approval in 16 states, including many important swing states.
Monday Open Thread
Talk about your local, sometimes non-political news stories here, or talk about the political stories we aren’t talking about… yet.
Joe Klein Reminds Me Why I Dislike Him.
I always love it when I am told when and where it is appropriate to discuss something, although I do admire the real skill and concurrent idiocy that Joe Klein displays in contradicting himself one sentence later in telling us how crucial the discussion is.
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The following passage is making the rounds on Facebook, regarding the needless deaths of 31 of our troops in the CH-47 Chinook crash in Afghanistan on Saturday
This is what they wanted.
This is what the Tea Party wanted. A credit downgrade. And yet, they are blaming the President for it. So how do they live in a world where something they wanted happens and they are supposedly upset about it?
Congressman Joe Walsh Better Watch Out
This is how you catch deadbeat parents. Here’s some advice – pay your child support or keep it zipped and in your pants.
Something Broke
I think that there has been a shift that may have broken many things. I think that the whole debt deal and the recriminations have emboldened the detractors on both sides of the President. And I think that the people that have trusted and continue to trust the President to do the right thing are […]
Heckuva Job, Teabaggers
In the new NYT/CBS poll, Congress gets the highest ever disapproval rating, 82%.
Thanks, Supreme Court
Mitt Romney is definitely benefiting from Citizens United. Financial disclosures records of Restore Our Future, a Super PAC set up to support Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, show it was bankrolled, in part, by a million dollar donation from one suspicious donor. That donor is a mystery company that was created in March and dissolved shortly after its donation in July, NBC reports.
On Wisconsin
As UI wrote the other day, many of the recall elections in Wisconsin are scheduled for next Tuesday. And there have been some interesting developments of late. It seems that Marie Antoinette has been reincarnated in the form of GOP Senator Alberta Darling.
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