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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2010 5 Comments
Trust me, I’m not counting my chickens before they have come home to roost.  But it is enjoyable to read the distraught comments from those trying to run away from the wave. The “wave” is the most recent Gallup poll showing a 10 point generic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2010 10 Comments
Obama was interviewed by Brian Williams yesterday.  Once again, Obama exhibited the sort of disdain towards a substantial portion of the population as he did in his bitter clinger comments back in 2008. You will remember that at a private cocktail party in April 2008...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2010 3 Comments
On Friday, Barack Obama dropped a political bombshell with wide ranging implications for the U.S. war on terror and relations with the Muslim world.  Obama then disappeared from the domestic political scene, as a fury of recriminations reverberated throughout the political sphere and blogosphere.  Obama...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 18, 2010 8 Comments
At Reid campaign headquarters, the dozens of mudslinging campaign staffers must feel like the walls are closing in on them. A new Rasmussen poll shows Sharron Angle leading by 2 points if “leaners” are included, and tied without leaners. Reid stuck his foot in his...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2010 0 Comments
It really is frustrating to hear Obama administration officials tout 3 million jobs saved or created. How many of those jobs did several miles of sidewalks in Warren, Rhode Island, save or create? Now that the project is over, the jobs are gone. But you...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2010 9 Comments
The headlines regarding The Washington Post-ABC News poll just released focus on the finding that Confidence In Obama Reaches New Low. I certainly understand why that is the headline, but only if one digs deep into the actual polling data does one get a true...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2010 15 Comments
In an upcoming issue of The Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol pens an editorial in which he argues that while “we are not not now quite at a founding moment, or even a re-founding moment,” we are approaching a point of political crisis which will be...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2010 6 Comments
Warren, Rhode Island, has new sidewalks from the center of town down Rte 103 to the Massachusetts border, almost two miles away.  Thanks to the Stimulus Plan. I have driven that road hundreds of times, and also have cycled the route many times. I never noticed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2010 15 Comments
Paul Krugman reserved July 4 for what must be a deliberate deception, Punishing the Jobless, on the issue of extending unemployment benefits, which recently failed to pass the Senate. Krugman blames Republicans, whom he terms “heartless”: By the heartless, I mean Republicans who have made...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 02, 2010 8 Comments
So stifle the economy and scare employers into not hiring that people simply give up looking for jobs, and therefore are not counted in the unemployment rate. That is what the jobs numbers just released show (emphasis mine): Employers cut 125,000 jobs last month, the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 25, 2010 10 Comments
Yesterday I posted about a speech by Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) in which Whitehouse accused Republicans of having no compassion for the unemployed. The speech was classic Whitehouse, painting anyone who opposed his view as morally inferior and heartless. And it is a theme hit not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 24, 2010 4 Comments
Sheldon Whitehouse has taken to the floor of the Senate again to accuse everyone who opposes driving the country further into debt of being against people who are suffering financially. But that accusation, much like Whitehouse’s accusations against opponents of ObamaCare, is based on a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 18, 2010 4 Comments
The pathetic, lie-infested legislation known as ObamaCare was based on phony numbers and unrealistic assumptions so that Democrats could sell the package to themselves and their delusional Democratic constituents. Those of us who followed the legislation called the Democrats out on it, but since Democrats...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2010 12 Comments
There is so much wrong with how Barack Obama has handled the Gulf oil spill, it’s almost hard to know where to begin. Put aside the ineptitude of the approval process and clean up response. For today, I’m focusing on the tentative settlement with BP....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2010 9 Comments
The spinning for Harry Reid is in full throttle. The meme is changing — according to Democratic insiders! — from one of doomed Harry Reid to Harry Reid the survivor: There’s no denying that Reid still trails in most polls and that his approval ratings...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2010 2 Comments
While Bill Halter’s failed attempt to unseat Blanche Lincoln understandably has received all the media attention, there is a congressional race in Massachusetts in which labor is trying to unseat a politically incorrect (i.e., not sufficiently liberal) Democratic incumbent. Steve Lynch is a Democrat in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2010 6 Comments
Greg Sargent of The Plum Line blog now blogs under the banner of The Washington Post, a recognition of his status as one of the premier, and normally more reasonable, left-wing bloggers. Yet it appears that Sargent, while far less vitriolic than many of his...
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