This is a great article from Newsweek that proves that none of the Republican Presidents of the last 50 years would pass the “purity test” of today’s Republican party. The Republicans have moved so far too the right that even Ronald Reagan would be considered a “liberal” by their standards. Considering that it was right [...]

A message to Sarah Palin and the rest of the Republicans who made “Drill Baby Drill” their slogan:

This image with the slogan “I Want My Country Forward” (which I think originated with Bill Maher) and a job creation chart (showing the growing job losses of George W. Bush and the growing job gains of Barack Obama) is worth sharing:

Today’s Gallup poll has President Obama at 52% approval vs 41% disapproval. This is quite a turn around from just over a month ago when Obama was at only 45% approval vs. 48% disapproval. From -3% points to +11% points. 52% has been about as high as Obama has been able to get recently. If [...]

According to this new poll from Gallup, 42% of Americans want President Obama to pick a justice who will make the court more “conservative” than it is now while only 27% want him to pick someone who would make the court more liberal. You could interpret this to say that Americans want Obama to select [...]

Some recent results from Gallup polls indicate that the prospects for the Democratic Party for the 2010 midterms are looking better. Here they are: (1) Republican advantage in “voter enthusiasm” has shrunk to just 10 percentage points (43% to 33%) from 19 percentage points about a month ago. If the Democrats can continue to shrink [...]

Amazingly Fox News still claims to be an actual news organization that is “fair & balanced” even though there are currently four probable 2012 Republican candidates for President working for the network: Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, & Rick Santorum. To understand the absurdity of this situation, imagine if Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, & [...]

President Barack Obama took over in January of 2009 in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression thanks in large part to the deregulation of the financial sector by Republicans (this cause of the economic crisis is what Wall Street Reform – supported by President Obama – hopes to correct.) Wall [...]