HotAir is running an important look at the recent poll by CBS and New York Times which paints the Democrats as glorious and Republicans as withering. The problem is the polling which takes a look at party popularity is drastically skewed towards sampling more Democrats than Republicans by 16%! That’s like going to [...]

Timothy Geithner, the man who couldn’t figure out TurboTax, made a warning on Sunday to all bank boards and CEOs. If they’re having trouble, and they ask for help, then he just might have to fire them.
“If in the future, banks need exceptional assistance in order to get through this, then we will make [...]

Following up on Obama’s criticism that they’ve become the “Party of No,” the GOP has released its 2010 Budget alternative plan. The details are thin at the moment as it’s still rolling out, but take a look at the highlights including a drastically cut tax rate: 10% for the first $100K.
The plan unveiled Wednesday [...]

On Tuesday night Barack Obama told America that Republicans were only objecting to his ideas and not providing any alternatives of their own. Simply not true, but it sounds great for the parrots that take his spoken word for gospel. The GOP presented alternatives to the Porkulus which Obama must be forgetting or [...]

Living up to their motto, Senate Democrats voted for “Spend Spend” today as the Senate Budget Committee voted down a Republican offer to reduce government spending. The GOP recommendation would freeze spending for the next five years while still supporting President Obama’s “blueprint.” Dems said, “no way”:
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said his proposal [...]

Uh oh. Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) just dropped a major bombshell on his plans for reelection later this year. Dodd admitted to CNN, after having previously denied it, that he inserted a loophole into the bailout legislation which allowed AIG to give itself the massively undeserved bonuses via taxpayer money!
It is worth noting [...]

Two weeks ago White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told us the White House knew exactly what was going on with the tens of billions of dollars they were handing out like candy to the financial failure known as AIG:
TAPPER: AIG, is the administration confident that it, that it knows what happened to the [...]

5 weeks ago Barack Obama told America that we needed Porkulus so companies could hire again. In fact, if it was passed, Obama promised quite explicitly, that construction company Caterpillar Inc. would rehire some of those 22,000 people they had to lay off:
“If Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire [...]

Vice President Joe Biden gave another one of his trademarked speeches yesterday where he stated, amongst little nuggets like Obama “has inherited the most difficult first 100 days of any president, I would argue, including Franklin Roosevelt,” that Congress’ approval rating was up:
[Biden] said, “I want to tell you one last thing and this is [...]

Hmm, that’s strange. In September of 2008 John McCain said:
“Our economy, I think, is still — the fundamentals of our economy are strong, but these are very, very difficult times.”
Barack Obama pounced on McCain’s statements calling him out of touch:
“I just think he doesn’t know,” Obama said in Grand Junction, Colo. “He doesn’t [...]