By PUMA Pundit on July 23, 2009
The AP does some spot checking of Obama’s claims from his completely pointless press conference last night (where he pre-emptively dodged at least one question) and what they discover is that his words do not match the reality of the situation on not only health care, but other issues… AP President Barack Obama’s assertion Wednesday [...]
Posted in Obama | Tagged barack obama, democrats, GOP, health care, health insurance, henry louis gates, medicaid, medicare
By PUMA Pundit on July 8, 2009
The first stimulus was predicted to be a failure, and all signs indicate that it is, yet there is talk in DC about passing a second Stimulus. Thankfully, some Democrats in Congress are balking at the very thought of this. Bloomberg Democrats who control the levers of power in Washington are divided over whether to [...]
Posted in Capitol Hill | Tagged barack obama, budget deficits, democrats, Economy, GOP, Harry Reid, jared bernstein, joe biden, republicans, Sheldon Whitehouse, steny hoyer, stimulus, unemployment
By PUMA Pundit on April 7, 2009
It was bound to happen… National Journal In the week before Election Day, voters favored a generic Democratic congressional candidate over a Republican by margins as big as 12 percentage points. Just three months into the new Congress — and still a year and a half out from the midterm elections — Republicans appear [...]
Posted in Polls | Tagged congress, democrats, diageo/hotline data, fox news/opinion dynamics poll, npr survey, republicans |
By PUMA Pundit on March 14, 2009
Rich Lowry at NRO has figured out Obama’s modus operandi: NRO First: Denounce your presidential predecessor for a given policy, energizing your party’s base and capitalizing on his abiding unpopularity. Second: Pretend to have reversed that policy upon taking office with a symbolic act or high-profile statement. Third: Adopt a version of that same policy, [...]
Posted in White House | Tagged barack obama, blame, democrats, george w. bush, GOP, McCain, rahm emanuel, republicans |
By PUMA Pundit on February 13, 2009
Earlier today, the House passed the Stimulus package…without a single Republican vote. Seven Democrats also voted against it. Final tally: 246-183, with 1 Democrat voting present. Democrats who voted against: Bobby Bright, Alabama Peter DeFazio, Oregon Parker Griffith, Alabama Walt Minnick, Idaho Collin Peterson, Minnesota Heath Shuler, North Carolina Gene Taylor, Mississippi FINAL VOTE RESULTS [...]
Posted in Capitol Hill | Tagged conference report, democrats, House of Representatives, republicans, stimulus