Rasmussen shows Obama got a SOTU approval bump

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While the Gallup poll, so far shows little movement to President Obama since his State of the Union address, Rasmussen shows a big bump for Obama among Democrats after the speech: from 25-42 strongly approve-strongly disapprove to 33-40. Obama’s overall approval rating also jumped from 46-53, to 50-50. These are the highest ratings for Obama in 4 months.

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Grim.

globaleconomicanalysis dot blogspot dot com/2010/01/massive-layoffs-coming-in-nyc-nevada.html

The county legislature I cover has been saving its pennies for a rainy day and that’s about to happen.

Luckily for us, we’re one of the few NYS counties that won’t be hit that hard coz of (believe-it-or-not) fiscal restraint on the part of the repub controlled body.

Not to bore you with figures but the 2009 sales tax revenue decreased almost 9% over 2008 and 2010 is expected to be worse.

2009 Delinquent taxes rose almost 30% over ‘08.

Not to mention the decrease in state aid for everything from schools to health care and the fact the highway budget is in free fall, it’s not a pretty picture.

20% of county residents received some type of social services last year, almost double the usual numbers.

Sorry, I am taking this one over to red states who are laboring under the delusion that Bambi will move to the middle.
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GAME ON!!
Posted by marshablackburn (Profile)
Monday, February 1st at 2:46PM EST
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On Friday, President Obama was invited to speak at our House Republican conference. The invitation was extended by Republican leadership in an attempt to engage the President in an open dialogue about his policies. I had the opportunity to ask him a question about health care reform. I wanted to know three things: First, had he reviewed Republican proposals for reform, second, what lessons had he taken from the failure of other public option plans like TennCare, and third, when and how did he anticipate sitting down with Republicans to go over our proposals?

The president took his time in answering my question. He told me politely that he had reviewed our proposals and rejected them. The President completely avoided any discussion of TennCare, just as Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had earlier this summer. The President also failed to respond to where and how Republicans might sit down and go over our proposals with him.

Unfortunately, it seems that our ideas are welcome, so long as they conform to his preconceived idea that the only path to better health care is through a government bureaucracy. Tennesseans know that just won’t work.

My question was roundly criticized by liberal pundits. In criticizing me for highlighting Republican proposals, they assumed that we had never advanced them when we held the majority. They conveniently forgot that the House passed many of these free-market approaches to health care reform in 2005 and 2006.

The Wall Street Journal was on hand for my exchange with the President. Despite the President’s evasive and incomplete answer to my question, they quote him as saying that he is “game” to sit down with Republicans and go over our proposals. They quote me too, “GAME ON!”

Cross posted at Marsha Blackburn.com

Year-to-date federal government revenues totaled $487.78 billion, compared to $547.38 billion for the first three months of fiscal 2009. Individual income-tax receipts totaled $207.73 billion, compared to $255.29 billion. Corporate tax revenues were at $33.93 billion, down from $50.37 billion.

Last August, the AP reported that federal revenues were on pace to drop 18%, the worst since 1932.
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That is the critical factor. That will create another downturn. If you talk to the investment fund managers none of them are optimistic about what lies ahead. Also, as someone reported last night on No Quarter comment by Sassy you get this:

Sassy
LD, from what I have read, analysts expect the GDP to be at 2.5% or less for the year.
To drive down unemployment by 1% this year, the economy would need to grow by 5% for the entire year.
No one thinks that will happen, leaving unemployment at 10%.

not “…LOOK WEEK”.

duh.

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Execution “Likely” for Sept. 11 Mastermind
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The Obama administration said Sunday it would consider local opposition when deciding where to hold Sept. 11 terror trials and pledged to seek swift justice for the professed mastermind of the attacks.

“Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is going to meet justice and he’s going to meet his maker,” said President Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs. “He will be brought to justice and he’s likely to be executed for the heinous crimes that he committed in killing and masterminding the killing of 3,000 Americans. That you can be sure of.”

Objections from New York City officials and residents have intensified since the Justice Department announced late last year it planned to put Mohammed and other accused Sept. 11 conspirators on trial in federal court in lower Manhattan. In its new budget, the Obama administration is proposing a $200 million fund to help pay for security costs in cities hosting terrorist trials.

White House aide David Axelrod said New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other city officials have changed their minds after initially supporting the decision for trials in the city, citing logistics and costs.
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