Another Red State senator with a potential re-election problem: “Incumbent Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan may have a serious problem on his hands if Republicans recruit Governor John Hoeven to run for the U.S. Senate in North Dakota next year. The first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 telephone survey of likely voters in North Dakota finds the popular Republican governor leading Dorgan by 22 points — 58% to 36%.”
Harry Reid says any senator who didn’t get a “deal” is a sucker. Well, he didn’t quite say it that way — but almost: “I don’t know if there’s a senator who doesn’t have something in this bill that’s important to them. … And if they don’t have something in it that’s important to them, then it’s doesn’t speak well for them.” Next we’ll be hearing that the Cornhusker Kickback is “golden.”
James Pinkerton explains: “It’s not sausage-making, it’s three-card-monte-playing. … But the whole point of three-card-monte is not to build an enduring monument of some kind–the point is to get the money away from the rubes. Or, in this case, the votes away from the voters. We’ll see in 11 months how this game plays out.”
Sen. Ben Nelson is convinced that the backlash against him is “all orchestrated.” Yes, the outrage from the right-to-life community, the governor, and the local branch of Americans for Prosperity is quite “orchestrated,” and they will be equally united when he comes up for re-election.
Three of her top two reasons for opposing ObamaCare: “1. Forces you to pay up to 8% of your income to private insurance corporations — whether you want to or not. 2. If you refuse to buy the insurance, you’ll have to pay penalties of up to 2% of your annual income to the IRS. … 5. Paid for by taxes on the middle class insurance plan you have right now through your employer, causing them to cut back benefits and increase co-pays.” Jane Hamsher or Dana Perino?
CBS headline: “Democrats Worry of Dismal Mid-Term.” Democratic pollster Celinda Lake says, “Our voters are less enthusiastic than Republicans and independents.” And that was before the 1 a.m. Senate health-care vote.
In Virginia, which Obama won in 2008 by 5 percentage points, voters disapprove of his performance by a 54 to 44 percent margin. Only 30 percent of white voters approve of his performance.
Isn’t it delusional to think a bill that more than 60 percent of voters disfavor is going to help the party that passed it on a strict party-line vote? “Slumping in the polls and struggling to pass climate and financial legislation, President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders are counting on an historic health care victory to buoy their electoral prospects in 2010. … Last week’s Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll not only showed a substantial majority opposed to the plan, but for the first time, it showed a plurality favoring the status quo over passage.”
Independents disapprove of Obama’s performance by a lot — more than a dozen points on average.
Many of them may be in agreement with Michael Goodwin: “I now regard his campaign as a sly bait-and-switch operation, promising one thing and delivering another. Shame on me. Equally surprising, he has become an insufferable bore. The grace notes and charm have vanished, with peevishness and petty spite his default emotions. His rhetorical gifts now serve his loathsome habit of fear-mongering.”
be sure to check out the thrashing michael totten got on his blog during the hezbollah-israel war as well, if he hasn’t deleted it. god forbid you defend the indiscriminate bombing of civilians against the lobby. he learned the hard way
god forbid you defend the indiscriminate bombing of civilians against the lobby.
That is a lie and a libel.
oh really?
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001184.html
and that was what in response to all the accoloates you got for criticizing israels conduct. everyone applauding your even handedness? doesn’t seem like it
Ayatollah al Lester,
still lying in defense of your mullahs and their hizb’allah proxies, I see. Maybe you could link to some fraudulent AP stories about the IDF’s punitive counterstrike against the hizb’allah terrorists. They have really nifty staged and doctored photos too.
I linked to the authors blog. you couldn’t have illustrated my point better though. anyone who doesn’t tow the anti arab lobby line is just another liar, even a guy who was on the ground and has pledged his fealty to the boyz in the hood in tel aviv.
you see that brother totten?
lester, how about the indiscriminate rocketing of the northern Israeli civilian population by Hizbullah in the summer war of 2006?? It may interest you to know that the rockets shot by Hizbullah killed quite a few Israeli Arabs and at least one rocket landed in palestinian authority territory near Jenin. The fact that a few dozen Israeli Arab civilians were killed proves how indiscriminate the rocket firing was. I’m sure that they would have preferred to kill Jews but their rockets [katyushas and larger types] cannot be precisely aimed.
Now, How about the indiscriminate firing of rockets from Gaza into southern Israel by Hamas and its allied gangs??? A man was killed yesterday who lived on Kibbutz `Aza. Let me know if this Israeli death was reported by your usual “news” sources, the sources that you trust. The Hamas and its allies usually shoot at the town of Sderot but have lately –since obtaining longer range rockets– shot at the city of Ashqelon. Their purpose is clearly to kill civilians, otherwise why would they shoot at Sderot and Ashqelon?? But you are your allies point the finger at Israel, whereas Hizbullah in Lebanon stored rockets and other weapons inside homes, schools, mosques, and other supposedly civilian locations. Which is a violation of international law, of Geneva Convention IV.
I wouldn’t have chastized mr totten for reminding people of those atacks. yet, his “supporters” threw him under the bus and backed overe him for pointing out the recklessness of israelis attack on what was obviously not hezbollah. it was a punitive attack on lebanon itself for “harboring” hezbollah. even though israel itself couldn’t disarm or destroy them after more than a decade of occupation.
don’t expect mr totten to bring this up again. he’s as terrified of the lobby as the palestinians now. not a nice feeling is it?