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The President’s Deaf Ear
5 hours ago ago from The Razor
Watching the president's approval ratings sink and hearing people regret their votes cast a year ago makes me consider the president's failure to acknowledge the growing chorus of criticism of his policies. The tone deafness of his administration manifests itself from the refusal to compromise with the GOP on health care to the shrugging off of the losses of governorships in Virginia and New Jersey. Where Clinton kept a close watch on his ...
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6 hours ago ago from arnie.net
On Wednesday and Thursday , the U.S. House of Representatives will debate a bill to prevent reckless speculation in the energy markets. Even if you already have contacted Congress, please e-mail them again today to ask your member of Congress to support the newly introduced Stupak-DeLauro Amendment, which will add additional consumer protections to this important legislation. Reckless speculation artificially raises the price of ...
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17 hours ago ago from Bizcast
Johannesburg, Dec 8 (I-Net Bridge) Although US President Obama's approval ratings have fallen from his 100-day level of 68% to just below 50%, the same is not true of President Jacob Zuma, whose 100-day approval rating was 57% and is now at a new high of 58%. Zuma's rating had dropped to 53% in September. TNS Research Surveys says that in late June, 57% of the adult metro population felt that President Zuma was doing a good job as ...
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22 hours ago ago from AJM\'s BLOG
From the AP (and excerpted in Mike Allen's Politico.com "Playbook" -- 'A sure sign that it's election season: Gov. Charlie Crist is changing again. The populist Republican is trying to convince people he's a conservative now that his opponent in the primary for Senate, former House Speaker Marco Rubio, has cut considerably into Crist's lead in the polls with a conservative message. In the most extreme example of Crist reinventing ...
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18 hours ago ago from CNN Money
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama will propose using some of the $200 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program to support creating jobs, White House officials confirmed Monday. (See correction below.) The president, in an economic speech before the Brookings Institution on Tuesday, will argue that the money would be well spent by funding projects to build bridges and roads, weatherize homes, and provide other assistance for small ...
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3 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Politics
President Obama outlined a response to the nation's intensifying job crisis Tuesday that encourages businesses to hire new workers by easing the flow of credit and implementing a series of tax cuts, but leaves important details -- including the cost of the plan -- to be hashed out by Congress. This Story Obama's job-creation ideas build largely on elements of the $787 billion economic stimulus package ...
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By Susan Davis Primary Day: Ted Kennedys death this summer left a high-profile vacancy in the U.S. Senate, but the primary taking place today to replace him has garnered little national, or even local, attention. Low turnout is anticipated. Former President Bill Clinton stepped in Monday to endorse odds-on favorite Attorney General Martha Coakley , one of four Democrats seeking the nomination as well as two Republicans. In this blue state, ...
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President Obama was taking a brief detour from his teleprompted remarks on jobs. "Sometimes it's hard to break out of the bubble here in Washington and remind ourselves that behind these statistics are people's lives, their capacity to do right by their families," he riffed. He was at that moment deep within the bubble -- standing alone at the lectern of a downtown D.C. think tank, wearing the capital's standard-issue dark suit, addressing a ...
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