April 24, 2010

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April 14, 2010

Americans now prefer Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama

Filed under: Politics — Cato Uticensis @ 3:57 PM

According to a recent poll the American people now prefer Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama. This should be a red flag and a cause of concern for President Obama.

It is, of course, a really silly thing to even think about, given the clout of the Chicago Machine boys currently occupying the White House.

But, just say, the Real Great Talker continues his spiraling descent in the polls over the next 12-18 months; already the Democrat is barely tied with Any Republican in opinion polls looking toward 2012. 

Even worse, a majority of Americans have already decided they don't want Obama to have a second term.

And just say under Obama's leadership and insistence on his unpopular healthcare bill over jobs, all the spending and exploding deficits, plus the certainty of new taxes to cover his costs, the Democrats in Congress get thoroughly thrashed by the GOP come November. Maybe they even lose control of both houses.

This week a new poll showed Americans now preferring the GOP on a generic congressional ballot. And despite eagerly optimistic recent administration economic claims, the unemployment rate is likely to hang high, and now comes a new ABC News Poll finding national consumer confidence actually waning, not building.

Do you think then maybe by a year from now some Democratic Party bigwigs and money people might be whispering to each other that this arrogant Illinois guy is pulling a Jimmy Carter, constructing a disastrous….

…single term that teed up 12 straight years of Republican White House rule?

Well, it turns out, there is another Democrat — another former senator, in fact — hanging around now free of political tussles with an enhanced resume burnished on the world stage, thanks to Obama himself.

And a new CNN/Opinion Research Poll has just revealed that even today Americans like that other Democrat more and dislike that other Democrat less than they do the incumbent Democratic president.

That other Democrat is, of course, Hillary Clinton, who fought and scratched her way mightily but unsuccessfully through those bitter, belligerent Democratic primaries and caucuses of 2008. The former first lady and current secretary of State professes no intra-mural interest in challenging her White House boss, as she must as long as she's an administration team member.

The published CNN article focused on an Obama matchup with Sarah Palin. But within the data were Favorable/Unfavorable ratings for numerous prominent politicians of both parties. Here are the surprising new poll numbers for Clinton:

61% now think favorably of the former senator and only 35% unfavorably, both numbers improved from the 56% and 40% she had during the Democratic National Convention in late August of 2008.

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April 10, 2010

Mike Pence Delivers Fantastic Speech at SRLC

Filed under: Economy,National Debt,Politics — Cato Uticensis @ 9:30 PM

Rep. Mike Pence delivered one heck of a speech. Pence sounded the warning to fight the radical Democratic agenda and challenged the Republican party not to shy away from the challenge. If you don’t have time to watch the full video go to 13:10 when Rep. Pence said, “A nation conceived in liberty has come of age in bondage to big government.”

h/t The Lonely Conservative



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Democratic Image Reaches New Low

Filed under: Politics,Uncategorized — Cato Uticensis @ 9:17 PM

A recent Gallup poll reveals some interesting data: the favorability rating of Americans polled shows the party in power at 41%. I don’t know about you but I’m thinking the corruption, the back room deals and governing against the will of the American people have a lot to do with this.

Gallup last measured party images in late August/early September of last year. At that point, the Democratic Party enjoyed an 11-point favorable image advantage over the Republican Party. Now, the favorable ratings of the two parties are essentially tied.

The images of the two major parties have particular significance in a midterm election year. For example, the favorable rating of the Democratic Party exceeded that of the Republican Party by 52% to 37% just prior to the 2006 midterm elections, in which the Democrats gained 31 House seats.Americans’ current 41% favorable rating of the Democratic Party is five points lower than the party’s previous low, recorded twice in 2005.

By contrast, the Republican Party’s image reached its all-time low of 31% in December 1998 — just after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Bill Clinton. The Republicans’ current rating is improved from a pair of 34% ratings Gallup measured in late 2008 and in May 2009.



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April 7, 2010

Gingrich: Obama May Be the “Most Dangerous” President Ever, “Completely Misunderstands Reality”

Filed under: Barack Obama,Politics — Cato Uticensis @ 12:14 PM

Newt Gingrich was on Hannity last night and had this to say, “The greatest danger is we will end up confusing words with reality in a way that suddenly could get a whole lot of people killed…I think if you were to say, he is potentially the most dangerous…You get an embrace if you’re Hugo Chavez, you get acceptance if you’re Ahmadinejad in Iran, but if you’re an American ally, somehow you’re not acceptable, he can bully you.”

h/t HotAir Pundit



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April 6, 2010

Van Hollen: Democrats Will Once Again Run As Party of Change

Filed under: Politics — Cato Uticensis @ 8:33 PM

House Democrats have come up with an absolutely original idea for the fall campaigns, run on an anti-George Bush platform.

(CQ Politics)- House Democrats plan to revive the political ghost of former President George W. Bush in their bid to retain the majority this fall, according to Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the head of the party’s re-election efforts.

Van Hollen, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, on Tuesday signaled House Democrats will try to repeat their success in the last two election cycles by once again running under a change banner.

“This time we will make the case that supporting a Republican is simply turning back the clock to Bush economic policies, the same policies that got us into this mess to begin with,” he told reporters gathered at the downtown offices of Third Way, a centrist Democratic think thank. Republicans, Van Hollen added, “will I think put themselves clearly in the position where they represent the status quo and that the Democrats, while we have the White House and both houses of Congress, remain the party of change and reform.”

We’ve seen the change the progressive Democrats have brought and quite honestly we don’t like it. Nothing would make me happier than to see every Democrat voted out of office and the Democrat Party out of business!

h/t Weazel Zippers



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Sebelius: ObamaCare Lawsuits Are Not About Constitution But GOP Careers

Filed under: Politics — Cato Uticensis @ 8:20 PM

Kathleen Sebelius is living in la la land! If Sebelius knew anything about the Constitution she wouldn’t be a Democrat, nor would she be in the Obama Administration.

Via Breitbart.tv



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Arianna Huffington Humiliated on Morning Joe

Filed under: Politics — Cato Uticensis @ 3:18 PM

Arianna Huffington got between a rock and hard place during Tuesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, and ended up being totally humiliated and embarrassed by Joe Scarborough, Rudy Giuliani and Mort Zuckerman. This is what happens to Huffington and her progressive friends whenever they’re on the same set as as a conservative.

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Transcript courtesy via NewsBusters:

RUDY GIULIANI: Arianna, I’m also, I’m also responsible largely for the turnaround of New York City. I took over, I took over a city that had 2,000 murders a year, I left a city with four or 500 hundred murders a year. I took over a city with 1.1 million people on welfare, I left a city with 500,000 people on welfare. I took over a city with a $2.3 million deficit, I left a city with a $3 million surplus. I hired a lot of good people to do that…It’s just a cheap shot.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: That’s a cheap shot!…I want to stop. I want to stop right now. I want to talk also about Bernie Kerik for a second. I know no one else will agree with me. This is just me talking and nobody else. Bernie Kerik did a hell of a job also keeping New York City safe. Two, it’s an unpopular thing to say, Bernie Kerik made mistakes, a lot of people make mistakes. I was glad Bernie Kerik was standing behind Rudy Giuliani September 11. And the bottom line is Arianna, if Rudy Giuliani did not run for President of the United States, Bernie Kerik would be walking the streets today, because the second Rudy Giuliani started running for President of the United States, the long knifes came out and they started searching everybody’s record and they found somebody who had made some bad mistakes. [...]

MORT ZUCKERMAN: If there is one thing that the mayor deserves a lot of credit for is that he turned around the living conditions of New York by really reinforcing law and order, and particularly backing the police, and doing what he, a fundamental transformation of life in this city.

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: That’s not either, or. You are not judging the mayor’s entire history. We’re talking about something very important, something very specific. And we’re talking also about this knee-jerk attempt to criticize the administration on everything, especially the position of the president on terrorism from a man who said you don’t know if waterboarding is torture. I don’t know if you still hold that position.

GIULIANI: Well, first of all, we have a perfect right to talk all about that, but you’re comment about Bernie Kerik was totally irrelevant to it and just a cheap shot. [...]

SCARBOROUGH: Can I ask also how we got from Marco Rubio to waterboarding, Arianna? That is a wild (?), you have taken this conversation and hijacked it.

HUFFINGTON: It’s all about what the mayor stands for. What the man stands for means that we can look at who he supports from that perspective. This is a man…

SCARBOROUGH: Do you want to take waterboarding as the issue you embrace, because I know a guy sitting in the United States Senate now that said it polled pretty damn well in Massachusetts.

HUFFINGTON: What does this have to do with anything?

SCARBOROUGH: It has everything to do with everything. You’re saying that his position on waterboarding disqualifies him to endorse a guy in Florida, and I’m telling you if waterboarding is popular in Massachusetts, it’s probably pretty popular in my home state of Florida.

HUFFINGTON: So what? So it doesn’t disqualify him from supporting anybody he wants. It means that I don’t have to take his support particularly seriously. That’s all I’m saying.

SCARBOROUGH: I don’t think he gives a damn whether you support his candidate or not because you’re not going to support him anyway, right?

HUFFINGTON: I’m not saying whether I’m going to support his candidate. I’m saying we’re having a conversation about whether who he supports makes a difference.

SCARBOROUGH: It does in Florida.

HUFFINGTON: I mean, this is a man who also spent $50 million in the presidential race and got one delegate.

SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. Arianna, I’ve got to say this. Just stop. If we’re going to do this, Arianna, I, understand, we’re going to talk about your race in California.

HUFFINGTON: I never, I mean, my…

SCARBOROUGH: You ran for governor of California, and it was a complete flop. I still want to hear your ideas, and I don’t always go back to your failures here or your failures there. But for some reason, you’re doing it with Giuliani. And I, by the way, I would be defending somebody on the Left if someone on the Right was doing the same thing to them.

GIULIANI: The reality is you criticized the Tea Party movement and the right-wingers for getting terribly personal and terribly irrelevant and racist, and you’re the worst offender. I mean, I come on here just to talk about Marco Rubio, you’re attacking me on Bernie Kerik, you’re attacking me on how I ran my presidential race. I imagine you’re going to attack me on what I did in the Little League when I was a child. I mean, this is an over the top, emotional reaction as opposed to an intellectual discussion of whether Rubio or Crist would be the better senator.



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Harry Reid Must Be Joking When He Says ‘With Rare Exception’ Everybody Realizes ObamaCare Is ‘Terrific’

Filed under: Politics — Cato Uticensis @ 3:02 PM

There comes a time where the level of absurdity surpasses the notion to ridicule people like Harry Reid.

“Because the loud minority made a lot of noise. Now that the legislation passed, it is amazing how much different people attitude is. I mean traveling on an airplane people are so nice to me. We have people — it wasn’t that way before. We have people coming, sending me notes in church. “I have a disabled daughter. Thank you very much for taking care of her.” People have changed. Even the Republicans have changed their tone.”

h/t Breitbart.tv



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April 5, 2010

Rep. Maxine Waters And The Off-the-Hook Democrat Hypocrisy

Filed under: Politics — Cato Uticensis @ 9:57 AM

I am amazed at the Democratic politicians like Rep. Maxine Waters who are first to fore front in condemning tea partiers; making outlandish statements and charges from out of nowhere. Yet the video reveals the hypocrisy of the Democrats like Maxine Waters:

Via Breitbart.tv



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