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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (85937)	6/15/2010 4:10:55 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224770

have they already made up the numbers for June, July and August? you bet they have Kenny

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (85937)	6/15/2010 4:41:17 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224770

We're going to start calling you 'Slow', Ken. Suits you.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (85937)	6/16/2010 12:37:15 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224770

Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Fallout from the Spill Our new Louisiana poll has a lot of data points to show how unhappy voters in the state are with Barack Obama's handling of the oil spill but one perhaps sums it up better than anything else- a majority of voters there think George W. Bush did a better job with Katrina than Obama's done dealing with the spill. 50% of voters in the state, even including 31% of Democrats, give Bush higher marks on that question compared to 35% who pick Obama. Overall only 32% of Louisianans approve of how Obama has handled the spill to 62% who disapprove. 34% of those polled say they approved of how Bush dealt with Katrina to 58% who disapproved. While the poll results indicate a lot of unhappiness with the President, ultimately BP is getting the largest amount of blame from voters in the state. 53% of voters say they're angriest at the oil company to 29% who say their greatest unhappiness is with the federal government. And 78% say BP has the greatest responsibility for cleaning up the spill to only 11% who say that onus lays with the federal government. 44% think BP CEO Tony Hayward should be fired to 29% who think he should not and 26% who are not sure. One thing the oil spill has not done is created a spike of opposition to offshore drilling in Louisiana. 77% of voters still support it with only 12% against. Only 31% say the spill has made them less inclined to be in favor of drilling while 42% say it hasn't made a difference to them and 28% say they're now stronger in their support. If there's any 'winner' in this unfortunate event it's Governor Bobby Jindal. 63% of voters approve of the job he's doing, the best PPP has found for any Senator or Governor so far in 2010. There's an even higher level of support, at 65%, for how he's handled the aftermath of the spill.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (85937)	6/16/2010 6:16:52 AM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224770

Poll: Trouble for Dems in Vulnerable Districts -- By: Daniel Foster By webmaster@nationalreview.com (Daniel Foster) NPR commissioned a bipartisan poll of the 70 House districts viewed as most unfriendly to incumbents. 60 of those seats are currently held by Democrats, and the news just gets worse from there. In the 70 swing districts, Republicans hold an eight-point advantage over Democrats on a generic ballot. Poll directors Stan Greenberg (Democrat) and Glen Bolger (Republican) put the data in context: "In a year where voters want change and in which Democrats are seen to be in power, this is a tough poll — about as tough as you get," Greenberg said. Bolger said the poll results will be a wake-up call for Democrats, who were stunned at the beginning of the year when Republican Scott Brown won the U.S. Senate seat held for years by the late Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. "If Massachusetts was the first wake-up call, this is was the snooze alarm going off," Bolger said. More details here. npr.org

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (85937)	6/16/2010 9:12:04 AM
From: JakeStraw	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224770

Not Another Czar! investors.com The president on Tuesday evening proved himself tone-deaf to this popular disenchantment, manifested in his sinking public approval ratings. He double-downed on his status as the federal government's expander in chief by announcing the establishment of an oil czar who will join the nearly 30 other czars running various sectors of the American Leviathan absent public accountability.