According to this new CNN poll President Obama’s approval rating at the end of May is at 54%. This is a jump of 6 points from the same poll taken at the end of April (when the President was at 48%.) Possible reasons for the jump: 1. Bin Laden. 2. Obama’s opposition to the Republican [...]

In an absolutely despicable sociopathic move the Republican majority in the House is using the needed disaster relief funds for the victims of the terrible tornado tragedy in Joplin, Missouri as ransom. Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) said on Face the Nation yesterday that the Republicans will not pass the necessary emergency funds [...]

Rudy Giuliani has been talking about running for President again (although has not yet made it official) so CNN included him in their latest Republican primary poll and rather surprisingly he took the top spot in the results. Rudy Giuliani 16% Mitt Romney 15% Sarah Palin 13% Ron Paul 12% Herman Cain 10% Newt Gingrich [...]

The Republicans are doubling down on their attempts to kill Medicare. Now the GOP is saying they won’t raise the debt ceiling unless the Democrats agree to Medicare cuts (and not raising the debt ceiling would cause huge damage to the economy.) 235 Republicans in the House and 40 Republicans in the Senate voted to [...]

Voters are reacting very negatively (see NY-26) to the Republicans in the House & Senate who voted to phase out Medicare and cut taxes for millionaires even lower than they already are. But that’s not all; Voters also have a terrible case of “Buyer’s Remorse” when it comes to the Republicans who won Governor elections [...]

New polling from PPP has President Obama ahead of all potential Republican challengers in hypothetical 2012 general election match-ups: Obama 49%, Mitt Romney 42% Obama 51%, Newt Gingrich 37% Obama 54%, Sarah Palin 37% According to PPP, it’s not so much that President Obama is overwhelmingly popular (they have his approval rating at just 48% [...]

Today the Paul Ryan GOP budget that ends Medicare, drastically cuts Medicaid, and cuts taxes even more for millionaires was defeated in the Senate 57 to 40. All 40 of the Senators that voted to end Medicare are Republicans. Just like in the House vote; not a single Democrat voted to end Medicare. These six [...]

The Republicans created the debt. The same debt they are using as an excuse to eliminate Medicare.

Today President Obama’s Gallup approval rating is at 53%. This is the first time he’s been at 53% since February 15, 2010. Along with the Democratic win in NY-26 this improvement in Obama’s approval #s is a strong indicator that the political winds are at the back of the Democratic Party as voters strongly reject [...]

The Republican plan to end Medicare as we know it was the single biggest reason Democrat Kathy Hochul won an upset victory in the special election in the very red NY-26 yesterday (so red that in 2008 John McCain won it by 6% points even though he lost by 7% points nationally.) If the Republican [...]