If you’re a fan of Ken Burns’ documentaries, you have the opportunity to grab a couple of the boxed sets for a significant discount, but it’s today only and then they go back to their regular pricing. Each is 62% off the regular price.
It’s not fun to be a Democrat who voted for Obamacare these days:
CBS Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes said the Democrats are distancing themselves from President Obama.
“Not only are they running away from President Obama, they’re running away from being Democrats in some cases. In some races you actually see the Democratic candidates not really mentioning that they’re a Democrat in their campaign ads,” Cordes said.
Smith asked his guests to try to identify the source of the discontent: “From your experience on the Hill, have you heard any Democrats in private conversations say, ‘You know what? We went down the wrong road. We went after health care. We went after so many other things on the Obama agenda as opposed to, in the end of the day, it’s all about creating jobs?’”
“Not only have we heard that, but we’ve been hearing it for months,” said Cordes. “We heard it during the health care debate that dragged on for a year when the economy was so bad; they focused on health care and they focused on financial regulation.
“Americans don’t feel the impact of those pieces of legislation yet,” she said. “There’s a lot of frustration on Capitol Hill among Democrats who feel like the President led them down this path. They didn’t all necessarily want to deal with health care. This was on the president’s agenda, and then they felt like he kind of hung them out to dry.”
“Not a single Democrat has run an ad in support of the health care bill since April,” VandeHei noted.
Nancy Pelosi said we had to pass the bill so we could find out what’s in it. Well, it passed and we found out what’s in it…and we don’t like it.
Sounds like somebody needs a nap:
Those following President Obama’s prepared remarks during a speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Monday were thrown a bit of a curveball when it came to a description of his critics:
“Some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time and they’re not always happy with me. They talk about me like a dog. That’s not in my prepared remarks, but it’s true,” he told a crowd largely consisting of union members.
And we know how much Muslims hate dogs.
I mentioned another post the other day about how the Dems are already starting to cut support from races they are clearly going to lose while trying to “firewall” enough seats to save control of the House. It’s probably a losing effort.
Jay Cost, in his first effort for The Weekly Standard, takes a look at how bad the situation is for the Democrats right now. Here’s just a brief excerpt:
These numbers explain why we’re getting “Dem triage” stories when it’s still 90 degrees in the nation’s capital. Think of it this way: Obama won WA-2 by 14 points. A poll by a non-partisan, reputable firm shows it at +4 GOP, for a total swing of 18 points. Apply that to the 435 districts across the country, and you have over 100 Democratic House seats in potential jeopardy.
He reports that six of the ten Dem incumbents in Ohio are in trouble. Other media reports show a Republican surge in that state that is likely to sweep Dems from the seats of power throughout the state.
Read Jay’s entire piece at the link above.
And Dems need Ohio if they want to keep the White House in 2012. It’s an important state in national electoral politics.
A friend sent this to me and it’s pretty interesting in how it recounts the Christian heritage of our nation:
A couple of weeks ago I condemned the plans of a crazy Florida pastor to burn Korans on 9/11 in some sort of petulant display of what he thinks is Christianity. It’s a stupid idea, doesn’t advance the cause of Christ at all, and according to Gen. David Petraeus, could endanger our soldiers in Afghanistan:
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the planned burning of Qurans on Sept. 11 by a Florida church could put the lives of American troops in danger and damage the war effort.
Gen. David Petraeus said the Taliban would exploit the demonstration for propaganda purposes, drumming up anger toward the U.S. and making it harder for allied troops to carry out their mission of protecting Afghan civilians.
“It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort,” Gen. Petraeus said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “It is precisely the kind of action the Taliban uses and could cause significant problems. Not just here, but everywhere in the world we are engaged with the Islamic community.”
Hundreds of Afghans attended a demonstration in Kabul on Monday to protest the plans of Florida pastor Terry Jones, who has said he will burn the Quran on Sept. 11.
Afghan protesters chanted “death to America” and speakers called on the U.S. to withdraw its military convoy. Some of the protesters threw rocks at a passing military convoy, although officials told the rock-throwers to stop.
Drudge links to another story of Indonesian Muslims protesting outside the US Embassy because of this same stupid stunt. This is not Christianity that pastor of this 50 member congregation is demonstrating, but will be used to condemn Christianity worldwide. It’s foolish arrogance.
When Gallup came out with their generic congressional poll showing GOP +10 many political pundits declared it an outlier. Guess not:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely Voters would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate, while 36% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. The survey data was collected on the seven days ending Sunday, September 5, 2010.
This matches the largest advantage ever measured for the Republicans. Three weeks ago, the GOP also held a 12-point lead.
Still, while the margin has varied somewhat from week-to-week, Republicans have been consistently ahead in the Generic Ballot for over a year. During 2010, the GOP edge has never fallen below five points. When Barack Obama first took office as president of the United States, the Democrats enjoyed a seven-point lead on the Generic Ballot.
If this holds through Election Day we could see an historic loss of seats for the Democrats and a general pummeling in races at all levels of government throughout the country.
Even CNN/Opinion Research now has the GOP +7 and their poll tends to favor Democrats. However, their polling director still doesn’t get it:
“The survey indicates that independents and voters who dislike both parties are starting to break toward the GOP,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “In a year when anger at incumbents is a dominant political force, the key to the election lies among those who aren’t rooting for either side.”
This is not an anti-incumbent year, it’s an anti-Democrat year.
Obama wants to throw another “Hail Barry” stimulus bill at the failing economy:
Vowing to find new ways to stimulate the sputtering economy, President Barack Obama will call for long-term investments in the nation’s roads, railways and runways that would cost at least $50 billion.
The infrastructure investments are one part of a package of targeted proposals the White House is expected to announce in hopes of jump-starting the economy ahead of the November election. Obama will outline the infrastructure proposal Monday at a Labor Day event in Milwaukee.
While the proposal calls for investments over six years, the White House said spending would be front-loaded with an initial $50 billion to help create jobs in the near future.
The goals of the infrastructure plan include: rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads; constructing and maintaining 4,000 miles of railways, enough to go coast-to-coast; and rehabilitating or reconstructing 150 miles of airport runways, while also installing a new air navigation system designed to reduce travel times and delays.
Obama will also call for the creation of a permanent infrastructure bank that would focus on funding national and regional infrastructure projects.
Administration officials wouldn’t say what the total cost of the infrastructure investments would be, but did say the initial $50 billion represents a significant percentage. Officials said the White House would consider closing a number of special tax breaks for oil and gas companies to pay for the proposal.
If $814 billion wouldn’t turn the economy around why would we think $50 billion would make any difference? And who would most of those jobs go to? Labor union members. This is just another giveaway of our tax dollars to the labor unions.
At this point I have my doubts Obama can even get the bill out of Congress.
I just had to laugh as I read this:
After 18 months of careful image-making and bipartisanship, Michelle Obama is shifting course as first lady, stepping up her policy agenda and dipping into election-year politics to campaign and raise money for Democrats.
Michelle Obama spent some of her summer promoting activities for children.
Despite stinging criticism of her summer vacation to Spain with daughter Sasha — aides warned her not to go, and the backlash was fiercer than they had imagined — Mrs. Obama is the most popular member of her husband’s administration.
Being the most popular member of Obama’s administration is like being the best ballerina in Amarillo. It may mean something locally, but not much anywhere else.
She’ll only be able to go to the most liberal areas because she simply doesn’t have the popularity to help candidates in tough races.
From Fox News:
Days After End of Combat Role in Iraq, U.S. Drawn Back Into Fight
Just as it was a mistake for George Bush to have the “Mission Accomplished” banner behind him when the initial combat phase ended in 2003, it was a mistake for Obama to declare that the combat phase of Iraqi Freedom had ended because it was just a matter of time before another fight broke out and we lost some people. Those in the know realize that many units who remain in Iraq were simply renamed to appear as advisors and trainers instead of fighters.
I think Obama felt he needed some type of political win and declaring victory in Iraq was one way to do it. However, the voters weren’t impressed (Obama’s numbers have actually gone down since the speech) and the battles and losses to come will be constant reminders that the continued. effort in Iraq will not be without significant cost.
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