POLL: Plurality Believes That Republicans Are Sabotaging Economy. According to a new Daily Kos/SEIU poll, nearly half of voters believe that Republicans are intentionally stalling efforts to jump start the economy to ensure that President Barack Obama is not re-elected. 49 percent of respondents to the poll say that Republicans are intentionally stalling the economy, compared to 40 percent who say they are not. 11 percent replied “not sure.”
Among independents, 50 percent said that Republicans are stalling the recovery compared to 40 percent who said they are not, and 61 percent of self-described moderates said they are compared to just 40 percent who said they are not. Although 41 percent of voters believe that last week’s jobs report was bad news for the president (compared to 40 percent who said that it will have no effect on him, and 14 percent who said it was good news,) they seem to be primarily blaming the Republican party for the mess.
The Private Sector And The Public Sector Under Obama. Mitt Romney Wants To Repeal The Rule That Would’ve Stopped The Latest Financial Scandal. Scott Brown votes against Paycheck Fairness Act. Tweets WBUR’s Fred Thys.
I’m guessing Brown will say it wasn’t “bipartisan enough”. Which it could have been, of course, if he’d voted for it. Lizfarrington : My mom's neighbor's handma... Quayle Accuses Schweikert of Misbehavior in Arizona Race. The Republican primary race for Arizona's 6th Congressional District is heating up, with the campaign of Rep.
Ben Quayle accusing a staffer from Rep. David Schweikert's campaign of spying on Quayle's campaign headquarters by pretending to be a prospective volunteer. In a letter sent to supporters and posted online yesterday, the Quayle campaign says that a prospective volunteer last week came to campaign headquarters, filled out an information form and received a tour. Obama spending binge never happened - Rex Nutting. By Rex Nutting, MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Of all the falsehoods told about President Barack Obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree.
As would-be president Mitt Romney tells it: “I will lead us out of this debt and spending inferno.” Almost everyone believes that Obama has presided over a massive increase in federal spending, an “inferno” of spending that threatens our jobs, our businesses and our children’s future. Even Democrats seem to think it’s true. GOP to renew healthcare law repeal efforts. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. congressional Republicans will renew their call to repeal healthcare reform laws in bits and pieces, not all at once, members of both parties say.
Back in January, the new House Republican majority's first major legislative effort was a highly publicized, party-line vote to repeal the entire law, which came to nothing in the Senate. Now, though Republicans said they will focus on two provisions of the reform that could put Democrats and President Obama in a tough spot as the 2012 election nears -- the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which Republicans have characterized as a Medicare rationing board, and the CLASS Act, a program the Obama administration put on hold that would have provided daily benefits for people with disabilities if they've paid monthly premiums for at least five years, The Hill reported Friday.
GOP hopeful Rick Santorum campaigns with a seriously ill daughter at home. His is easily the most searing personal narrative offered by any candidate this season.
Fewer Voters Identify as Republicans. The balance of party identification in the American electorate now favors the Democratic Party by a decidedly larger margin than in either of the two previous presidential election cycles.
In 5,566 interviews with registered voters conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press during the first two months of 2008, 36% identify themselves as Democrats, and just 27% as Republicans. The share of voters who call themselves Republicans has declined by six points since 2004, and represents, on an annualized basis, the lowest percentage of self-identified Republican voters in 16 years of polling by the Center. The Democratic Party has also built a substantial edge among independent voters. Switcheroo: Democrats And Republicans To Trade Places On Taxes, Spending.
For at least the next several weeks, politics will undergo a strange transposition, during which Republicans will warn of the economic dangers of cutting government spending, and President Obama will barnstorm the country warning voters that Republicans are inviting a tax increase on the majority of Americans.
Democratic Congresswoman says GOP colleagues admit to tanking the economy to hurt Obama. Republicans Object To Bill For Homeless Veterans. Having had no luck in a political battle pitting deficit reduction against the unemployed, Democrats on Tuesday tried deficit reduction against veterans.
It didn't work. Sen. Mitt Romney: Maybe Veterans' Health Care Should Be Privatized. WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney floated an eyebrow-raising suggestion on Veterans Day: privatize veterans' health care.
Florida Teacher Faces Thousands In Fines For Registering Students To Vote. Florida’s new voter-suppression law is so draconian that a high school civics teacher faces thousands of dollars in fines just for helping students register to vote. Apparently Jill Cicciarelli, a teacher in New Smyrna Beach may have violated the portion of the bill that requires third parties who sign up new voters to register with the state and submit new voter applications within 48 hours. 12 Year Old Threatened with Arrest in WI Assembly For Studying the US Constitution.
Mitt Romney Has Announced That He Will Privatize Medicare. The Republican Party has created a crisis to eliminate the New Deal and the Great Society our past generations built and enjoyed. They created this crisis intentionally by increasing spending, through the military and cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans and corporations. By increasing spending and cutting taxes they created the debt we have today, a financial, budgetary crisis, that gives them the excuse to reduce spending, demand privatizing or eliminating every aspect of our social safety net. President Bill Clinton was about to throw a big wrench into that plan with his surplus, which would have stalled the Republican’s mission of a fiscal debt crisis. Then came along, George W. Bush and the Republicans in the House and Senate, who took the surplus away from the people and gave huge tax breaks to the wealthy and multinational corporations. Koch/ALEC Cabal - a Smoking Gun for financial connections and control... Many wonder how Davy Boy and Ol' Chucky ensure that they get their money's worth out of the organizations they fund and support.
A Republican War on the Environment. As the nation’s attention remains riveted on the GOP attempt to downsize government by refusing to raise the national debt limit, the party is working through the back door to destroy protections for the environment. In a study that reveals the GOP pledge to protect business interests at all costs, the Center for Media and Democracy recently analyzed 800 bills supported by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). This secretive group consists of big businesses and conservatives who influence state legislatures around the country to lower wages and taxes on business, and weaken environmental protection that could crimp profits.
Undoing efforts to address climate change is a major priority of ALEC sponsors such as Koch Industries, Exxon Mobil, Wal-Mart, AT&T and Peabody Energy. Gov. Christie's plan to privatize parks breaks the public's trust. Today (Wednesday) Governor Christie announced the future of our state parks will be placed in private hands, potentially limiting public access, decreasing services, and raising costs. House Dems call for voter suppression hearings. Ranking House Democrats John Conyers, D-Mich., and Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., are demanding congressional hearings on voter suppression laws that are being instituted in states across the country.
Stand Up for Patients' Rights: Tell Your Representative to Oppose H.R. 5. EPA Rules Don’t Kill Jobs, They Save Lives. Environmental standards finalized under the Obama administration are expected to yield extraordinary benefits while imposing relatively small costs on businesses, according to a new paper by the Economic Policy Institute. Execution of Mussolini. NYPD Officer Arrested On Civil Rights Charges: “I Fried Another N*gger” Cain: I'll challenge Perry for evangelical votes. Test Of Wisconsin Voter ID Law Led To Lines So Long People Left Instead Of Voting. By Travis Waldron on October 13, 2011 at 3:50 pm. Over GOP Objections, Budget Hawks Say Super Committee Should 'Go Big' Sorry, But The Republican Arguments Against A "Millionaire's Tax" Are Just Preposterous. More Details Emerge in Republican Assault on Post Office and Postal Unions. GOP wants CLASS Act hearing. Senate Republicans on Thursday asked for a hearing on the controversial CLASS Act program created by the healthcare reform law.
Senate GOP blocks 9/11 first responders health plan bill. Senate Republicans on Thursday morning filibustered legislation to monitor and treat first responders and emergency workers who suffered illnesses related to 9/11. Behind Boehner’s Lies. The U.S. government is not a household that must live within its means. GOP candidates show more loyalty to a foreign country (Israel) than their own. It is disconcerting to see the foreign-policy traps that Republican presidential candidates set for themselves, especially when it comes to Israel and the Middle East. Issa: We Won’t Investigate News Corp’s Alleged Hacking Of 9/11 Victims Because We Don’t Want To Pick On The Media.
GOP smirks at millionaire tax. Boehner Rebuffs Obama Request for Speech on Wednesday - GOP freshmen return, resume effort to roll back regulations. How the Right Wing Destroyed the U.S. Postal Service. Boehner Rejects Jobs Bill, Advances Deregulatory, Anti-Tax Agenda. GOP senators fear FAA shutdown - Scott Wong and Manu Raju.