Gallup’s latest polling of congressional approval ratings have them at 21%, down 10% from last month. This marks a pretty significant dive on the downward trend that has been occurring since March of this year. The biggest drop in support has come from Democrats. Last month 54% of Democrats approved of how Congress was doing […]
Drudge is linking a couple of past stories on the top of his site: The first article refers to Harry Reid make the statement while discussing filibusters to some high school students and the second refers to an appearance on Meet the Press. Both of these are far different than calling the President a liar […]
The Conservative/Rush Limbaugh movement basis their foundation upon smaller government. Well according to a new NBC/WSJ poll, that isn’t the view of a majority of the public (link – pdf): Also this poll has Obama’s approval continuing to rise. Enjoying that rise with Obama is Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party. Not enjoying […]
It’s time to tear apart some of these Republican myths, and in just one paragraph of Bobby Jindal’s speech we saw many: While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending. It includes $300 million to buy new cars for the government, $8 billion for high-speed rail […]
I guess rumors are starting to fly that the Republicans may try to filibuster the confirmation of Timothy Geithner. Harry Reid has already issued a soft warning on it: “I would frankly think it would not be very wise politically to do that,” Reid told told reporters. “We have a president who is very popular, […]
There’s a lot of outrage right now in the blogosphere over Rick Warren being tapped to give the invocation at Inauguration Day. Most of the blame seems to be lying on Obama, so I think it is time to look into some not so well known facts. The actual Inauguration events are held on the […]
It looks like Harry Reid may not be going anywhere in the near future: The lieutenant governor of Nevada says the state attorney general’s office intends to have him indicted over how he handled a college savings program as state treasurer. Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki said Monday he believes he is being targeted for political […]
Treason comes with a price: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will likely meet later this week with Joe Lieberman to discuss whether the Democrat-turned-Independent will be stripped of his Senate committee chairmanship, a senior Democratic leadership aide tells CNN. Lieberman currently chairs the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. This aide says that Reid, […]
The Answer – committees that John McCain does not sit on. Chris Dodd, who chairs one of those committees, told Rachael Maddow tonight that Obama has been in constant with him to check on the progress and offer ideas. McCain has not been in touch at all. Just yesterday McCain told reporters he hadn’t looked […]
Harry hits it out of the park on this one: I understand that the candidates are putting together a joint statement at Senator Obama’s suggestion. But it would not be helpful at this time to have them come back during these negotiations and risk injecting presidential politics into this process or distract important talks about […]