According to this CBS News poll 91% of Americans approve of the proposals in President Obama’s State of the Union address. You can watch the entire State of the Union address here. The big problem is it is very unlikely that there will be any significant movement on those proposals because the Republican controlled House [...]

David Axelrod, Obama campaign strategist, talking with CBS News about how the Republican presidential candidates were all “pledging allegiance” in Thursday night’s GOP debate to the destructive Tea Party (even though they just helped push the Republicans into causing the first credit downgrade in US history.) Axelrod also noted that during the GOP debate the [...]

In today’s press conference President Obama made the point that if the Republicans refuse to end the tax cuts for millionaires and other tax breaks for corporations and the rich then they are clearly not serious about balancing the budget. The President also took the GOP majority in the House to task for failing to [...]

The Republicans in the Senate care so little about the average American and so much for the wealthy that they were willing to filibuster a bill which would have permanently extended tax cuts for all Americans on their first $250,000 of income because the bill did not include additional tax cuts for the wealthy. Filibustering [...]

House Democrats have just passed tax cuts for all working Americans. It’s now up to the Senate to pass it and the President to sign it into law. Democrats in the Senate and President Obama are set to pass & sign these tax cuts for everyone but Republicans in the Senate have said they are [...]

While not as important as winning any actual election, it is certainly somewhat reassuring that the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert Rally For Sanity had more than twice as many people as the Glenn Beck rally for idiocy. 215,000 people attended the Rally for Sanity on 10/30 while 87,000 attended Beck’s rally on 8/28. VOTE SANITY!

The nutty Republican Tea Party Senate candidate in Delaware, Christine O’Donnell, said she “dabbled in witchcraft” when she was younger. Of course the Tea Party faithful aren’t going to jump off the crazy O’Donnell train no matter what, but imagine what their reaction would be like if we found video of President Obama admitting to [...]

There were 87,000 people at the Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally in DC on 8/28. As of this writing there are 96,000 people on Facebook who say they are going to the Jon Stewart “Restoring Sanity” rally and 37,000 people on Facebook who say they are going to Stephen Colbert’s “March to Keep Fear Alive.” [...]

Media Matters makes the point that the mainstream media has been skewing the debate on health care reform by insinuating that the “public option” that President Obama supports is not popular with Americans and that the “public option” is the “liberal position” (it’s not, it is a compromise, the true liberal position is “single payer.”) [...]

The new CBS/NY Times poll has Barack Obama ahead of John McCain nationally by a big margin: 53% to 39%. While this is likely to be somewhat of an outlier as it’s the largest lead Obama has in any national poll it should be noted that Obama also has a double digit lead in six [...]