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Poll Watch: Voters Trust Republicans More Than Democrats on Economic and National Security Issues
The latest Rasmussen poll drops this bombshell on President Obama and Congressional Democrats.
Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on six out of 10 key issues, including the top issue of the economy.
This is the first time in over two years of polling that the GOP has held the advantage on this issue. The parties were close in May, with the Democrats holding a modest 44% to 43% edge. The latest survey was taken just after General Motors announced it was going into bankruptcy as part of a deal brokered by the Obama administration that gives the government majority ownership of the failing automaker.Voters not affiliated with either party now trust the GOP more to handle economic issues by a two-to-one margin.
Here are the results:
Now, we know why President Obama is ramping up his economic stimulus tour today.
He can read pollls too or at least Rahm can.
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GOP’s Mitch McConnell: Obama’s Economic Stimulus Package Will Have Little if Any Impact on the Economy
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
Duh and remember that there were only three GOP Senators (one who later switched to become a Democrat) who supported the $ 700 Billion Plus bill.Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that President Obama’s stimulus package would have little, if any, impact on the economy — and re-stated his opposition to including any public option in the upcoming health care overhaul.
“I’m very skeptical that the spending binge that we’re on is going to produce much good and, even if it does, anytime soon, ” said McConnell. “And I think the economy is just as likely to begin to recover on its own, wholly aside from this, before much of this has an impact. So I’m very skeptical that this massive sort of spending binge that we’ve engaged in is going to have much of an impact.â€
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ObamaCare: Obama’s Health Cost Illusion
The President’s main case for health care reform, Obamacare is rooted in false claims and little evidence.
Read the Wall Street Journal piece here.
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Sarah Palin Rips Obama on the Economy: “Told Ya So”
Sarah Palin hits Fox News tonight in an inteview with Sean Hannity.As President Obama vows to spend the ‘stimulus’ faster, Governor Palin tells host Sean Hannity: ‘You gotta quit digging that hole!’
HANNITY: What do you make of – look at the state of the economy now…
PALIN: Well, when you consider that the federal government is about eleven trillion dollars in debt, and we’re borrowing more to spend more.. it defies any sensible economic policy that any of us ever learned through college. It defies economy practices and principles that tell ya ‘you gotta quit digging that hole when you are in that financial hole’
Palin continues:
“America is digging a deeper hole and how are we paying for this government large-esque. We’re borrowing. We’re borrowing from China and we consider that now we own sixty percent of general motors – or the U.S. government does… But who is the U.S. government becoming more indebted to? It’s China. So that leads you to have to ask who is really going to own our car industry than in America.”
HANNITY: You know but it goes back – It does go back a little to the campaign. I mean, ‘spread the wealth, patriotic duty…’
PALIN: Kind of a ‘we told ya so’.
HANNITY: Well, is that how you feel?
PALIN: That’s how I feel! I feel like… and I think that more and more constituents are going to open their eyes now and open their ears to hear what is really going on and realize ok… Maybe we didn’t have a good way of expressing that, or articulating that message of ‘here is what America could potentially become if we grow government to such a degree that we cannot pay for it and we have to borrow money from other countries, some countries that don’t necessarily like America.
And this many months into the new administration, quite disappointed, quite frustrated with not seeing those actions to rein in spending, slow down the growth of government. Instead Sean it is the complete opposite. It’s expanding at such a large degree that if Americans aren’t paying attention, unfortunately our country could evolve into something that we do not even recognize.
HANNITY: Socialism?
PALIN: Well, that is where we are headed. That is where we have to be blunt enough and candid enough and honest enough with Americans to let them know that if we keep going down these roads… nationalizing many of our services, our projects, our businesses, yes that is where we would head. And that is why Americans have to be paying attention. And we have to have our voices heard. And ultimately it need to be our will, the American people’s will imposed on Washington, instead of the other way around.
The interview airs tonight at 6 PM Pacific time as Obama scrambles today on the economy.
Wonder what the Palin-hate machine responds with this time.
Waiting……..
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Poll Watch: Only 32 Per Cent Say Most Islamic Nations Want Peace With United States
And, 45 Per Cent say no in the latest Rasmussen Poll.
The Question:
Do most Islamic nations want to have a positive and peaceful relationship with the United States?- Yes – 32%
- No- 45%
- Not sure – 24%
This is why President Obama’s speech in Egypt last week fell flat.
It is merely symbolism or the Obama Teleprompter over substance.
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger “HAPPY” Illegal Immigrants Obtain State Services
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein
Well, Arnold removes all doubt.Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he’s “happy” illegal immigrants get state services and says they’re not to blame for California’s $24.3 billion budget gap.
Schwarzenegger, an immigrant himself, says the estimated $4 billion to $5 billion the state spends on illegal immigrants annually is a “small percentage” of the deficit.
The Republican governor told The Sacramento Bee’s editorial board on Friday that it’s easy to “scapegoat” illegal immigrants. But he says the state’s budget has a much deeper spending imbalance.
He noted the federal government requires California to provide emergency health care and education to illegal immigrants. And he says illegal immigrants often help pick the state’s crops and construct its buildings.
NOte: California unemployment is the second highest in the United States and the state budget is bleeding red ink with no prospects of balancing it.
California is essentially insolvent and teetering on bankruptcy.
If Arnold did not have a short time remaining in office, he would surely be recalled.
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Obama Scrambles on Economy – Now Promises 600,000 Jobs
President Barack Obama, seen here on June 07, announced Monday a boost to economic stimulus spending over the next three months in a bid to save or create 600,000 jobs through summer youth programs, schools and public works
With the economy continuing to falter and unemployment at 25 year highs, President Obama today promises the creation of 600,000 jobs this summer.President Barack Obama promised Monday to deliver more than 600,000 jobs through his $787 billion stimulus plan this summer, with federal agencies pumping billions into public works projects, schools and summer youth programs.
Obama is ramping up his stimulus program this week even as his advisers are ramping down expectations about when the spending plan will effect a continuing rise in the nation’s unemployment. (See pictures of the global financial crisis.)
Many of the stimulus plans that Obama announced Monday already were in the works, including hundreds of maintenance projects at military bases, about 1,600 state road and airport improvements, and federal money states budgeted for 135,000 teachers, principals and school support staff.
The administration had always viewed the summer as a peak for stimulus spending, as better weather permitted more public works construction and federal agencies had processed requests from states and others.
But Obama now promises an accelerated pace of federal spending over the next few months to boost the economy and produce jobs.Obama has NO clue abut the role of government and the economy. Massive government spending and deficits will NOT spur the priovate economy and will lead to inflation and slow economic growth.
American business is afraid to act or invest capital – even if they have it. They know that higher taxes are coming to pay for Obama’s massive governmental intrusion into the economy and they will have nothing of it.
The economic stimulus bill was nothing about spurring on the economy. It was all about paying off Obama’s political constituencies.
If the President had been concerned about stimulating the economy, why didn’t he adopt the GOP suggestion of suspending the payroll tax and deliver real relief for taxpayers.
Now, he hits the campaign trail to what?
Spin his failed economic policies, no doubt.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir June 8, 2009 – The Red Dot
Day By Day by Chris MuirThe Red Dot this week for the Obama Administration will be health care reform or Obamacare. With a “leaked” draft release last Friday of a reform plan with an individual mandate for health insurance, the Democrats in Congress and the President are scrambling for ways to pay for the program.Suggestions include:
- Taxing high income earners by removing all of their tax deductions above a certain level
- Increasing “SIN” taxes, including sugary foods/drinks, alcohol and tobacco
- Taxing existing health care benefits provided by employers.
The major hurdle for Obamacare is the cost, despite the philosophical objection of “socilaizing – nationalizing” the remaining 50 per cent of the health care industry. The economy is still soft, gasoline prices have resumed their upward spiral and unemployment is at 25 year highs.
I continue to handicap the chances of ANY substantial health care reform as slim to none.
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links for 2009-06-08
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The White House says America's employment picture is worse than the Obama administration had anticipated just a few months ago. The somber admission follows the latest jobless report showing the highest unemployment rate the United States has seen in more than 25 years.
U.S. unemployment jumped a half percent in May, to 9.4 percent prompting this comment by Austan Goolsbee, a member of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors:
"The economy clearly has gotten substantially worse from the initial predictions that were being made, not just by the White House, but by all of the private sector," said Austan Goolsbee.
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If the Oval Office incident was meant as a lighthearted moment, it also exposed the underlying tensions that have gripped Mr. Obama’s economic advisers as they have struggled with the gravest financial crisis since the Depression, according to several dozen interviews with administration officials and others familiar with the internal debates.
By all accounts, much of the tension derives from the president’s choice of the brilliant but sometimes supercilious Mr. Summers to be the director of the National Economic Council, making him the policy impresario of the team. The widespread assumption, from Washington to Wall Street, was that the job would be Mr. Summers’s way station until the president could name him chairman of the Federal Reserve when Ben S. Bernanke’s term expires early next year.
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Labour also lost a seat in Wales, a traditional stronghold, where its share of the vote slumped 12 points to 20 percent and it was beaten into second place by the centre-right Conservatives.
Losing a seat to the BNP will give fresh ammunition to Brown's critics in the Labour Party after a traumatic week in which six senior ministers quit the government, one of whom called on Brown to quit and said he was an electoral liability.
Rebels among Labour members of parliament (MPs) are said to be canvassing support for a letter calling on Brown to stand down to boost their chances at a general election due within a year.
The Conservatives have a commanding lead over Labour in opinion polls and are on course to return to power for the first time since 1997.
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The Obama administration signaled Sunday that it was seeking a way to interdict, possibly with China’s help, North Korean sea and air shipments suspected of carrying weapons or nuclear technology.
The administration also said it was examining whether there was a legal basis to reverse former President George W. Bush’s decision last year to remove the North from a list of states that sponsor terrorism.
The reference to interdictions — preferably at ports or airfields in countries like China, but possibly involving riskier confrontations on the high seas — was made by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. She was the administration’s highest-ranking official to talk publicly about such a potentially provocative step as a response to North Korea’s second nuclear test, conducted two weeks ago.
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The Japan Coast Guard issued an alert to ships Monday as North Korea has banned vessels from passing through the Sea of Japan.
North Korea set the ban before launching short-range missiles from May 25 to 29.
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Watching Fox News Sunday, I caught a panel on which Obama economic advisor Austin Goolsbee conceded that the administration had previously predicted unemployment would top out at around 8%, that it was now up to 9.4%, and that double-digit unemployment was a distinct possibility in the near future. Goolsbee didn't resort to the administrations's blather about "saving or creating jobs," but he did repeat its fustian about how last month's loss of 345,000 jobs (resulting in a half percentage point jump in the jobless rate) is somehow good news because it beat predictions (I don't recall him saying whose) of even more dire loss numbers. It made me wonder why, if those predictions either existed or were serious, the Obama administration would have previously predicted that unemployment would top out at 8%?
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin set aside politics only briefly Saturday to help Auburn officials celebrate their inaugural Founder's Day and raise money for a museum honoring William Seward, the 19th-century U.S. secretary of state who acquired Alaska for the United States.
More than 20,000 people turned out to see the former Republican vice presidential candidate lead a parade through downtown Auburn and sign a proclamation on the steps of City Hall honoring Seward as "the one person most responsible for Alaska."
But after spending a day and a half as a tourist visiting some of the upstate New York region's most historic sites, Palin turned back into a politician at a private fundraiser for the Seward House museum, where she had sharp words for President Barack Obama's national security and energy policies and his handling of the nation's economic crisis.
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Well, I’m amused to learn that I was wrong about publius’s lack of legal education. I’ve been reliably informed that publius is in fact the pseudonym of law professor John F. Blevins of the South Texas College of Law. I e-mailed Blevins to ask him to confirm or deny that he is publius, and I copied the e-mail to the separate e-mail address, under the pseudonym “Edward Winkleman,†that publius used to respond to my initial private complaints about his reckless blogging. In response, I received from “Edward Winkleman†an e-mail stating that he is “not commenting on [his] identity†and that he writes under a pseudonym “[f]or a variety of private, family, and professional reasons.†I’m guessing that those reasons include that friends, family members, and his professional colleagues would be surprised by the poor quality and substance of his blogging.
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