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[The Hollywood Liberal] Blame for Economy Slowly Shifting | The Hollywood Liberal: At that rate, only a handful of voters will blame the economy on the Republicans by the time next year’s midterm elections roll around.”

[Theorypedia] 2010 Midterm Theory: Dems will pick up seats - Theorypedia: Lewis Black famously said, 'The Democrats are a party of no ideas and the Republicans are a party of bad ideas.' Now, according to Fenn, the electorate is increasingly seeing the Republicans as the party of "No."

[Lux Libertas - Light and Liberty] CNN Poll: Blame for recession shifting from GOP to Democrats | Lux ...: Thirty-six percent of people questioned say that President Barack Obama’s policies have improved economic conditions, with 28 percent feeling that the president’s programs have made things worse, and 35 percent saying what he’s done has had no effect on the economy.

[Swampland] Republican-not - Swampland - TIME.com: Republicans aren't the problem, Joe Klein...centrist Democrats who join with the GOP minority to make filibuster threats credible are. Centrist Democratic leadership whose overarching ideological goal of bipartisan compromise allows for filibuster threats to derail process are also to blame.

[The Intersection] Scientists and Republicans Don't Mix | The Intersection | Discover ...: As someone trained in science who is a registered Republican and a Deist, I must point that your dismissal of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is based on mere wishful thinking. There does exist ample, quite compelling, evidence that AGW has had a detrimental impact on Earth’s atmosphere not merely since the start of the Industrial Revolution, but, surprisingly, as far back as the first time that man began widespread agricultural cultivation.

[WSJ.com: Real Time Economics] Q&A: Oregon Democrat DeFazio Calls for Geithner's Resignation ...: Geitner isn’t doing anything different than what is in the psuedo-Keynsian playbook that the Democrats and some Republicans have adopted. Public spending going towards special interest is the logical conclusion of socialism - Geitner can’t take the blame for that.

[Phil's Favorites - By Ilene] Unemployment rate illusion « Phil's Favorites - By Ilene: The most inclusive definition of them all, the U6 measure of the unemployment rate, which includes all forms of unemployed and underemployed, is already at 17.5%. The posted U3 jobless rate that everyone focuses on is at 10.2% (though if it weren’t for the drop in the labour force participation rate, to 65.1% from 66.0% a year ago, the unemployment rate would be testing the post-WWII high of 10.8% right now).

[About.com Conservative Politics: US] What to Watch For In the 2009 Midterm Elections: The recent good news that has been reported about the economy is the result of artificiality, and is only as solid as the next stimulus payment. In terms of generating recovery, there has been no real progress made, and despite Democrats' best efforts, the public knows it.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: How about the fact that the republicans aren't constantly reminding everyone that they and Bush put us on the brink over a period of 10 years, and during this time they kept telling their blind faithful that don't put any more restrictive controls on them, they know what is best for America, trust them to do what is right. They have been making bad decisions based on instant profit under the republicans (no control policy) for years.

[The Breakthrough Institute] The Breakthrough Institute: Climate McCarthyism Part 4: The ...: Such hypocrisy will sound familiar to many who follow the climate debate in the U.S. Romm's escalating attacks on critics of current Democratic cap and trade proposals in Congress are indicative of the fact that the emperor has no clothes. EPA and CBO analyses have consistently found that the offset provisions allowed in these proposals will result in little reduction from business as usual U.S. emissions levels through the next decade or longer and little if any deployment of clean energy alternatives.

[The Caucus] House to Turn Up the Heat on Jobs - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com: But because that’s “socialism”, and certain individuals ( read: Republicans ) want to block job creation so as to blame the government for not doing anything to regain the power to hand the money back to the wealthiest in this country, that won’t happen.

[race42008.com] race42008.com » Blog Archive » Who Can Save Us From Mitt HuckaPalin?: The poll indicates that a slight majority, 51 percent, of Republicans would prefer to see the GOP in their area nominate candidates who agree with them on all the major the issues even if they have a poor chance of beating the Democratic candidate. Forty-three percent of Republicans say they would rather have candidates with whom they don’t agree on all the important issues but who can beat the Democrats.

[Newsweek Blogs] Republicans Narrowly Lead Democrats in 2010 Vote - The Gaggle Blog ...: Earlier this week Holly wrote a really interesting piece about the electoral parallels between now and 1993””and the fact that the GOP is hoping for a dramatic Democratic defeat in next year's midterms, similar to what happened in 1994. Holly points out...

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: If that many Democrats are too apathetic to go to the polls, and enough people are so dim-witted that they can see some kind of rational thinking in the Republican contenders, then this country will slide into a backward, theocratic society with no middle class and a few hundred thousand billionaires calling the shots. I find it deeply saddening that so many Americans are actually buying into the self-aggrandizing, irrational and highly seditious rhetoric of people like Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and that moron-of-morons, John Boehner.

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Quinnipiac poll: Obama now under 50 ...: There is, however, nothing more cruel, calculated, racist and destructive of black families and black communities than the way that the Democrats and the left have exploited and victimised blacks at every opportunity for political gain. You can actually count the victims in the numbers of black abortions, and the shooting deaths in Democrat-controlled inner-city ghettos.

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