I can’t help but laugh every time I hear some Republican say “passing this bill [health care reform] will cost the Democrats in November”. I keep wondering to myself if Coach K is calling up John Calipari and saying “if we meet in final four and you run a zone defense, it will cost you […]
Nate Silver did a post yesterday taking down the meme that FDR would have been able to push through healthcare. Of course FDR had a much bigger majority as Nate points out: It’s amazing to see the size of FDR’s majority, but I believe there is another reason why Obama isn’t FDR. Tomorrow Obama will […]
President Obama is getting more forceful in his fight for real health care reform, which is a much welcomed site. Yesterday he started invoking FDR and reminding people how the Republicans opposed social security. Then during the Johnson years they opposed Medicare. In both fights the GOP labeled the people pushing for change as “socialists”. […]
Oh and they are. They hate this press conference. Let’s look at the wingnut queen Michelle Malkin: Update 8:05pm Eastern. President Obama. “It is only government that can break the vicious cycle.” Jobs, jobs, jobs. Investment, investment, investment. Gag. President Obama claims to be acting on behalf of my children and grandchildren. So talking stimulus […]
Some troubling numbers from Rasmussen: The Rasmussen Consumer Index, which measures the economic confidence of consumers on a daily basis, fell four more points on Saturday to once again reach an all-time low. At 60.1, the Index is down three points from yesterday, down fourteen points from a month ago and down thirty-nine points from […]