President Barack Obama’s third year in office elicited some of the most polarized job approval ratings ever, as the differences between Republican and Democratic views of the president stood at near record highs, a new survey shows.
In 2011, 80 percent of Democrats approved of Obama’s job performance, compared to 12 percent of Republicans, according to Gallup.
The gap of 68 percent is the fourth-highest on record, going back to the Eisenhower administration, the pollster said.
Only President George W. Bush’s fourth, fifth and sixth years in office showed higher degrees of polarization.
It appears that the past decade has seen some of the most polarized views on the presidency. Together, the Bush and Obama administrations account for the seven most polarized years on record, and eight of the Top 10.
Despite all this, the polarization is likely to get even worse in 2012.
As a Senator, Joe Biden said both al-Qaeda and the Taliban attacked the U.S. on 9/11. However, as Vice President, Joe Biden has declared that the same Taliban is now “not an enemy.” It’s no wonder Obama picked Joe. He’s a flip-flopper as well.
Well foreigners usually hate American ideals so of course they would love a progressive liberal who is trying to turn America into Europe by redistributing US worldwide.
Investors in the U.S. would rather see Mitt Romney as the country’s next president than President Barack Obama, while those outside of the U.S. would prefer no change in the Oval Office, according to a new poll Thursday.
Romney, who touts his business and executive experience as his biggest assets on the campaign trail, is preferred three-to-one by U.S. investors, while investors overseas prefer Obama two-to-one, according to a Bloomberg survey that polled 1,209 investors, traders and analysts from around the world.
To show you how much the media is pushing Romney as their GOP choice, Politico didn’t report that US investors also prefer Newt Gingrich over Obama. The media is so scared to see an Obama/Gingrich debate.
Retiring congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) will marry his longtime partner, Jim Ready.
Frank and Ready plan to wed in Massachusetts. Frank’s home state is one of six states, in addition to the District of Columbia, that permits gay marriage.
Frank announced in November that he would be retiring from Congress after 16 terms to pursue other opportunities. In 1987, Frank disclosed that he was gay, becoming the first openly gay member of Congress.
He was outed by his gay partner who happened to be a prostitute and ran a brothel out of Frank’s home. Frank’s pleaded ignorant to having knowledge about the brothel being ran from HIS HOUSE.
Ready and Frank have known each other since they met in 2005 at a fundraiser in Maine, and began a relationship in January of 2007 after Ready’s partner died. Ready works as a photographer and has a small buisness doing custom awnings, carpentry, painting, and welding according to Frank’s office.
Ready, like many political spouses, has occasionally found himself in the headlines. He was arrested in 2007 for growing marijuana outside his Maine home; Frank was present at the time he was arrested. Ready later pleaded guilty to a fine for civil possession, and related charges were dropped.
“I told him that our relationship could not develop if he could not promise me that he would not repeat this. He apologized, with great sincerity I believe, and he made that promise and has lived up to it,” Frank said in a statement in 2010.
Instead of cutting money from his spending spree, Obama, and the Democrats, are gleefully cutting the defense budget while putting our military men/women on the unemployment line.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon took the first major step toward shrinking its budget after a decade of war as it announced Thursday that it wanted to limit pay raises for troops, increase health insurance fees for military retirees and close bases in the United States.
Although the pay-raise limits were described as modest, and would not start until 2015, they are certain to ignite a political fight in Congress, which since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has almost always raised military salaries beyond what the Pentagon has recommended.
Increasing health insurance fees for retirees and closing bases are also fraught with political risk, particularly when Republican presidential candidates are charging that President Obama is debilitating the military.
Didn’t Obama promise lower health care costs and insurance premiums ($2500 in savings) thanks to his health care law? Guess its not working so great.
Next year’s Pentagon budget is to be $525 billion, down from $531 billion this fiscal year. Even though the Defense Department has been called on to find $259 billion in cuts in the next five years — and $487 billion over the decade — its base budget (not counting the costs of Afghanistan or other wars) will rise to $567 billion by 2017. But when adjusted for inflation, the increases are small enough that they will amount to a slight cut of 1.6 percent of the Pentagon’s base budget over the next five years.
Nonetheless, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said he was working with about $500 billion less than he had anticipated having on hand through 2017, meaning that the Pentagon had to trim personnel and favorite high-profile weapons programs. “This has been tough work,” Mr. Panetta said at an hourlong news conference.
He said that the Army would be reduced over five years to 490,000 troops, down from a peak of 570,000, and that the Marines would be cut to 182,000, down from 202,000. (Ground forces would still be slightly larger than they were before 9/11.) The Pentagon initially will buy fewer F-35 Joint Strike Fighter stealth jets, which are not expected to be in service until at least 2017 and have the distinction of being one of the costliest weapons programs in history. In the Navy, 14 warships will be either retired early or built more slowly.
The green energy scheme, which involves Obama rewarding taxpayer-backed loans to politically connect allies, has struck again. Thomas J. Snyder, non-executive Chairman of Ener1, has close ties to Obama. Obama appointed Snyder to his Roundtable on Affordability and Productivity in Higher Education. Snyder also attended an event at the White House in 2010. Wonder how many times Snyder, and other Ener1 executives, was at the White House asking for these taxpayer-backed loans?
Ener1, an electric car battery company that the Obama administration awarded a $118 million stimulus grant to expand its operations, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday after being unable to repay pressing debts.
The news comes one year after Vice President Biden visited the company’s new battery plant in Indiana to highlight its progress with federal funds.
Ener1 is the third company to seek bankruptcy protection among those the Energy Department backed as part of the president’s signature program to invest in clean energy. Solyndra, a California solar-panel maker, and Beacon Power, a Massachusetts energy-storage firm, entered bankruptcy court proceedings in the fall, after having received taxpayer-guaranteed loans of $535 million and $43 million, respectively.
One of Ener1’s key struggles has been its reliance on one financially troubled customer, Think. The Norwegian carmaker filed for bankruptcy protection in June 2010.
In his State of the Union address Tuesday,President Obama foreshadowed the bad news by saying that he remained proud of his administration’s $80 billion commitment to clean-energy projects and companies, despite periodic failures.
“Some technologies don’t pan out; some companies fail,” Obama said. “But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy.”
It’s not his money that’s being wasted on unproven “green technologies.” Its the taxpayers.
House Energy and Commerce subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), who has led the congressional investigation into Solyndra’s loan, called Ener1 part of the “growing list of failed companies that went belly up” with taxpayer money.
“Sadly, the Department of Energy’s jobs record seems to grow worse by the day . . .and it is American taxpayers who are paying the price,” he said.
In an exclusive interview with ABC News, President Obama today acknowledged that he has made mistakes during his presidency but defended the steps his administration has taken to create jobs and improve the economy.
“I second-guess constantly… I make a mistake, you know, every hour, every day,” he told ABC News’ Diane Sawyer, laughing. “There’re always things that you’re learning in the job. And I have no doubt that I’m a better president now than the day I took office just because you get more experience. But when you look at the broad outlines of what we did, had it not been for the steps we took our economy would be profoundly weaker than we are right now.”
That’s a lot of mistakes: 24 times 7 times 365 times 3 years = 183,960 mistakes
The president was responding to a question by a Yahoo user asking him if there’s something he learned about himself and wished he had done in the first three years.
Third times the charm, as the saying goes. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before Congress and state that he would not monetize the debt. Basically it’s a money shell game where one hand steals from the other hand. It’s budget gimmickry used to hide the truth about America’s crumbling economy.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday the central bank was ready to offer the economy additional stimulus after it announced it would likely keep interest rates near zero until at least late 2014.
Why would the economy, which Debbie Wasserman Shultz claims has “turned around,” need 3 rounds of “stimulus” from the Fed?
The Fed also took the historic step of adopting an explicit inflation target, though Bernanke took pains to stress that officials would be flexible about reining in price growth whenunemployment was too high.
The late 2014 timeframe for the first rate hike was considerably later than investors had expected and some 18 months later than the Fed had suggested last year, and the announcement prompted a rally in U.S. government bonds.
Speaking at a news conference after a two-day policy meeting, Bernanke was cautious about recent improvements in the U.S. economy, and he left the door open to further Fed bond purchases.
Translation: We will buy more debt and hide the truth.
“I don’t think we’re ready to declare that we’ve entered a new, stronger phase at this point,” Bernanke said. “If the situation continues with inflation below target and unemployment declining at a rate which is very, very slow, then … the logic of our framework says we should be looking for ways to do more.”
In response to the deepest recession in generations, the Fed slashed the overnight federal funds rateto near zero in December 2008. It has also more than tripled the size of its balance sheet to around $2.9 trillion through two separate bond purchase programs.
This is Obama’s recession. The Bush recession ended in July of 2009. The Fed has already purchased more US debt than China with their Q1 and Q2 monetizing debt scheme that hasn’t lowered unemployment to 2008 numbers.
The policy is credited with preventing an even more devastating downturn, but it has been insufficient to bring unemployment down to levels considered normal during good economic times. Many Fed watchers expected a further round of bond buying, likely focusing on mortgage debt.
Well foreigners usually hate American ideals so of course they would love a progressive liberal who is trying to turn America into Europe by redistributing US worldwide. Via Politico: Investors in the U.S. would rather see Mitt Romney as the country’s next president than President Barack Obama, while those outside of the U.S. would prefer [...]
I believe Barney is the catcher. Just sayin… From The Hill: Retiring congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) will marry his longtime partner, Jim Ready. Frank and Ready plan to wed in Massachusetts. Frank’s home state is one of six states, in addition to the District of Columbia, that permits gay marriage. Frank announced in November that [...]
Instead of cutting money from his spending spree, Obama, and the Democrats, are gleefully cutting the defense budget while putting our military men/women on the unemployment line. WASHINGTON — The Pentagon took the first major step toward shrinking its budget after a decade of war as it announced Thursday that it wanted to limit pay [...]
Joe really has a hate for people from India. This isn’t the first time Joe made a racial comment about Indians. Joe is safe from media scrutiny. He’s a white liberal thus this is not racism.
The green energy scheme, which involves Obama rewarding taxpayer-backed loans to politically connect allies, has struck again. Thomas J. Snyder, non-executive Chairman of Ener1, has close ties to Obama. Obama appointed Snyder to his Roundtable on Affordability and Productivity in Higher Education. Snyder also attended an event at the White House in 2010. Won […]
Obama was a mistake! From ABCNews: In an exclusive interview with ABC News, President Obama today acknowledged that he has made mistakes during his presidency but defended the steps his administration has taken to create jobs and improve the economy. “I second-guess constantly… I make a mistake, you know, every hour, every day,” he told ABC [...]
Third times the charm, as the saying goes. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before Congress and state that he would not monetize the debt. Basically it’s a money shell game where one hand steals from the other hand. It’s budget gimmickry used to hide the truth about America’s crumbling economy. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chai […]
Obama is a one-man wrecking ball when it comes to causing American workers jobs and income loss. Via KTAR.com: CHANDLER, Ariz. – As President Obama visits the Phoenix area Wednesday, some construction workers said he is costing them a day’s pay. I’m guessing these weren’t unionized construction workers. Obama would never interfere on […]
