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A Peek Into The Echo Chamber
The wingers are having a collective breakdown over the President’s comments this week, first on the gravity of the Supreme Court’s ruling on health care reform on Monday, and second his remarks on the GOP’s House budget on Tuesday. His critics are in nothing short of complete apoplexy right now,…
Obama calls Ryan budget ‘thinly-veiled social Darwinism’
A gladiatorial President Barack Obama on Tuesday accused Republicans of plotting “social Darwinism” and hammered out the economic vision on which he will build his bid for a second White House term. Obama, apparently bristling to start mixing it with his Republican foe ahead of November’s election, made an impassioned…
Sen. Hatch blasts Obama for ‘judicial activism’ comment
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), former Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Monday criticized President Barack Obama for saying it would be “judicial activism” for the Supreme Court to overturn the health care reform law. However, at almost the same time last year, Hatch was condemning the President for nominating…
Mitt Romney gets a public spanking by Obama’s foreign policy advisors
It’s not rare these days to hear Mitt Romney lying his ass off about President Obama and all the things President Romney would do to make things better. However, it IS rare to see as thorough and effective a response as the one from President Obama’s foreign policy team this…
‘Huge shift’ among female voters gives Obama lead in battleground states
There is often a gender gap between the two political parties, with woman voters tending to favor the Democrats while a majority of men support Republican candidates. In recent weeks, however, as the Republican Party has become embroiled in the contraception issue, that gap has widened into an abyss. A…
Howard Dean: Striking down individual mandate will help Obama
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (D) on Sunday predicted that if the United States Supreme Court strikes down a key part of President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, it could actually benefit him in the 2012 general election. Dean told Fox News host Chris Wallace that the Affordable Care…
Moyers guest: Obama needs to back up populist rhetoric
Community organizer George Goehl would be glad if there was a national leader who could pressure the big banks to pay their fair share of taxes and deal honestly with the mortgage crisis by writing down the principle for underwater homeowners. He wishes President Obama could be such a leader,…
Poll shows GOP primary slog helps Obama
As the Republican presidential primary drags on, President Barack Obama is only getting more popular, a new poll released Wednesday night (PDF) found. Worse still for Republicans, the poll also indicates that a large majority still blame former President George W. Bush for poor economic conditions. Overall, the president’s chief…
Stewart: ‘Mr. President, we can hear you capitulating to the Russians’
On Wednesday night’s edition of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart played back the now-infamous “hot mic” incident from President Obama’s trip to South Korea for a nuclear summit earlier this week. While Republicans were quick to attack the president for what they perceived as electoral hubris, Stewart sees another…
Lou Dobbs accuses Obama of encouraging Treyvon Martin controversy
A solicitation published this week to micro-blogging service Twitter by the Obama campaign, promoting Obama 2012 sweatshirts and other apparel, was seemingly too much for two Obama critics to endure without comment. Appearing on Fox Business last night, former CNN pundit Lou Dobbs accused President Barack Obama of creating and…
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