David Corn

**Breaking news Flash**

Obama and the Democrat congress admit for the first time that the Surge is working...

The surge in unemployment, that is!

Grim Milestone. US Unemployment Rate Reaches 9.7%... Obama Admits It Will Surge Higher

Americans Opposed to "Wise Latina" Sotomayor For Supreme Court

A plurality of Americans oppose the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor according to a new Rasmussen poll.
Life News reported:

A new poll shows a plurality of Americans are opposed to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, who has been linked to pro-abortion groups, to the Supreme Court. A new Rasmussen national telephone poll finds 38 percent of voters support Sotomayor while 44 percent oppose her nomination.

That's a five-point increase in opposition from two weeks ago when 37% were in favor of her confirmation and 39% were opposed.

Forty-five percent have a favorable opinion of her, including 20% very favorable while 46 percent view her unfavorably, with 25% very unfavorable. These numbers also have remained largely the same since her nomination was announced, Rasmussen noted.

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Uh oh!!

"the House and Senate intelligence committees can and should investigate why the CIA did not brief Congress about this assassination program"

The GOP can drop $50 million investigating a BJ but doesn't want to spend anything to investigate one of their own.

That speaks to their lack of integrity. No surprise coming from a criminal enterprise.

I guess I broke a rule with three tinyurl links in one post. I got a message that it was received and will be reviewed by the blog owner. Oh well, it was just 3 different polls showing the opposite of rASSmussen's.

http://tinyurl.com/lqrckc
A sizable majority of Americans (62%) want the Senate to confirm Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, and most call her "about right" ideologically, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Poor, Persecuted Sarah Palin

The GOP embraces the culture of victimhood.

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Indeed, if political figures stand for ideas, victimization is what Ms. Palin is all about. It is her brand, her myth. Ronald Reagan stood tall. John McCain was about service. Barack Obama has hope. Sarah Palin is a collector of grievances. She runs for high office by griping.

This is no small thing, mind you. The piling-up of petty complaints is an important aspect of conservative movement culture. For those who believe that American life consists of the trampling of Middle America by the "elites" -- that our culture is one big insult to the pious and the patriotic and the traditional -- Sarah Palin's long list of unfair and disrespectful treatment is one of her most attractive features. Like Oliver North, Robert Bork, and Clarence Thomas, she is known not for her ideas but as a martyr, a symbol of the culture-war crimes of the left.

To become a symbol of this stature Ms. Palin has had to do the opposite of most public figures. Where others learn to take hostility in stride, she and her fans have developed the thinnest of skins. They find offense in the most harmless remarks and diabolical calculation in the inflections of the anchorman's voice. They take insults out of context to make them seem even more insulting. They pay close attention to voices that are ordinarily ignored, relishing every blogger's sneer, every celebrity's slight, every crazy Internet rumor.

This has been Ms. Palin's assigned role ever since she stepped on the national stage last summer. Indeed, she has stuck to it so unswervingly that one suspects it was settled on even before she was picked for the VP slot, that it was imposed on her by a roomful of GOP image consultants: Ms. Palin was to be the candidate on a cross.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124761930140242533.html

Support for Sotomayor Confirmation Holds Steady at 53%

PRINCETON, NJ -- As the Senate begins its confirmation hearings of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor Monday, a new Gallup Poll finds Americans in favor of her winning Senate approval, by 53% to 33%. Since late May, shortly after her nomination was announced, the percentage in favor of her confirmation has changed little, but the percentage opposed has increased as the percentage with no opinion has gone down.
http://tinyurl.com/lf9t3s

" I got a message that it was received and will be reviewed by the blog owner. "

Yup, but the post goes to never-neverland - nobody ever sees them.

Two URL's max.

I still don't understand how Cheney as VP can order anyone around without written permission from the Bushmeister, who seems not to know how to write.

I don't recall any previous VPs ordering agencies around as though they were the executive.

Who exactly was president between Jan 20 2001 and Jan 20 2009?

BTW as long as Freddie keeps grasping so ardently at straws, we may as well consider branding him a cud chewing conservative, a Republican cow. If he is rich he could be a cash cow.

By my calcualtions, GW Bush took over with a $5 trillion surplus facing him. He finished out with about a $10 trillion deficit. That makes him a $15 trillion loser, I know I'm stretching the math.

In any event, I am still searching for any instances where America's conservtives ever did anything that benefited the average citizen without massively benefitting the overly privileged at the same time. I am really only looking at the past half century since I have only been paying attention to US politics since I arrived in this country in 1962. You are welcome to educate me on the benefits of having a conservative government in relation to the common man. (I do not count promises of crumbs falling off the tables of the rich as being beneficial.)

We Offer Riches and Perks for Corrupt Cronies, and Crumbs for Everyone Else

If you defraud banks and customers of billions, you get taxpayer money. But if you are poor like Tearyan Brown of Trenton, N.J., you are in trouble.

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/141275/we_offer_riches_and_perks_for_corrupt_cronies%2C_and_crumbs_for_everyone_else/

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Crumbs you say?

(jk)

Opinions of Obama Follow 2008 Election Results

Editor's note: this is a guest post by Alan Abramowitz, Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science at Emory University, and a member of the TDS Advisory Board.

Political observers follow presidential approval ratings obsessively and often interpret them in terms of the daily drama of this or that issue or trend. But amidst much speculation about the stability of Barack Obama's base of support, it's useful to compare his approval ratings in various demographic groups with their support for him last November.

An examination of recent Gallup Poll data shows that Americans’ opinions about the job Barack Obama is doing as president closely mirror the results of the 2008 election. The President's 58% approval rating in the July 6-12 Gallup Poll is slightly higher than the 53% share of the vote that he received last November, but his approval rating among various demographic groups correlates almost perfectly with his vote share among the same groups.

The following figure shows the relationship between Obama’s 2008 vote share in 24 demographic groups and his current approval rating in the same groups: the correlation between the two is a near perfect .99.

The implication of these results is that when it comes to opinions about the President, little has changed in the past eight months. Despite the continued weakness of the economy and the steady drumbeat of attacks on the President’s policies from the right, the coalition of groups that put him in office last November remains solidly behind him today.

http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2009/07/opinions_of_obama_follow_2008_1.php

Hey Kalpal, did you just come to this country for a fucking hand out?

No wonder you're a frigin liberal!

Strike one up for the Birthers!

BORN IN THE USA?
Bombshell: Orders revoked for soldier challenging prez
Major victory for Army warrior questioning Obama's birthplace

By Chelsea Schilling and Joe Kovacs

Dr. Orly Taitz

A U.S. Army Reserve major from Florida scheduled to report for deployment to Afghanistan within days has had his military orders revoked after arguing he should not be required to serve under a president who has not proven his eligibility for office.

His attorney, Orly Taitz, confirmed to WND the military has rescinded his impending deployment orders.

"We won! We won before we even arrived," she said with excitement. "It means that the military has nothing to show for Obama. It means that the military has directly responded by saying Obama is illegitimate – and they cannot fight it. Therefore, they are revoking the order!"

She continued, "They just said, 'Order revoked.' No explanation. No reasons – just revoked."

A hearing on the questions raised by Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, an engineer who told WND he wants to serve his country in Afghanistan, was scheduled for July 16 at 9:30 a.m.

Join the petition campaign to make President Obama reveal his long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate!

"As an officer in the armed forces of the United States, it is [my] duty to gain clarification on any order we may believe illegal. With that said, if President Obama is found not to be a 'natural-born citizen,' he is not eligible to be commander-in-chief," he told WND only hours after the case was filed.

"[Then] any order coming out of the presidency or his chain of command is illegal. Should I deploy, I would essentially be following an illegal [order]. If I happened to be captured by the enemy in a foreign land, I would not be privy to the Geneva Convention protections," he said.

The order for the hearing in the federal court for the Middle District of Georgia from U.S. District Judge Clay D. Land said the hearing on the request for a temporary restraining order would be held Thursday.

Want to turn up the pressure to learn the facts? Get your signs and postcards asking for the president's birth certificate documentation here.

Cook said without a legitimate president as commander-in-chief, members of the U.S. military in overseas actions could be determined to be "war criminals and subject to prosecution."

He said the vast array of information about Obama that is not available to the public confirms to him "something is amiss."

"That and the fact the individual who is occupying the White House has not been entirely truthful with anybody," he said. "Every time anyone has made an inquiry, it has been either cast aside, it has been maligned, it has been laughed at or just dismissed summarily without further investigation.

"You know what. It would be so simple to solve. Just produce the long-form document, certificate of live birth," he said.

Cook said he was scheduled to report for duty tomorrow, on July 15, to deploy to Afghanistan as part of President Obama's plan to increase pressure of insurgent forces there.

He told WND he would be prepared for a backlash against him as a military officer, since members of the military swear to uphold and follow their orders. However, he noted that following an illegal order would be just as bad as failing to follow a legal order.

Stefan Frederick Cook: Soldier Won't Deploy Over Obama Birth Certificate

UPDATE: The Army has revoked the deployment orders for a soldier who said he shouldn't have to go to Afghanistan because (he believes) Barack Obama was never eligible to be president.

Because he's a reserve soldier who volunteered for an active duty tour he can "ask for a revocation of orders up until the day he is scheduled to report for active duty," a public affairs officer explained. Cook volunteered for the tour in May of this year. It is not clear why he did so, considering his current objections.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/stefan-frederick-cook-sol_n_231383.html

David, Please see what you can do to block Freddie's posts. I don't think he has a right to abuse other posters like he just did.

Obama's birth certificate: Final chapter. This time we mean it!

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When we spoke to a spokeswoman for the Hawaii Department of Health, she said too much was being made of the difference between the so-called "long" and "short" forms.

"They're just words," said spokeswoman Janice Okubo. "That (what was posted on the Internet) is considered a birth certificate from the state of Hawaii."

"There's only one form of birth certificate," she said, and it's been the same since the 1980s. Birth certificates evolve over the decades, she said, and there are no doubt differences between the way birth certificates looked when Obama was born and now.

"When you request a birth certificate, the one you get looks exactly like the one posted on his site," she said. "That's the birth certificate."

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/jul/01/obamas-birth-certificate-final-chapter-time-we-mea/

Flan,

I heard a rumor some changes were coming to the Corn blog - don't know how soon.

I do not know what specific changes but I hope many issues are addressed.

(fingers crossed)

OBAMA BOOED IN ST. LOUIS!... And Throws a Sissy Pitch

Barack Obama Booed at the All-Star Game in St. Louis On Tuesday!

And, he threw a sissy pitch:

It's going to be a rough 4 years. He's only been in office 5 months and he's already getting booed.
...And protested.

Finally... Obama Takes Responsibility For Economy
President Barack Obama finally took responsibility for the economic disaster he created today.

MSNBC reported

“It’s a job I gladly accept,” he said to applause. “I love these folks who helped get us in this mess. And then suddenly say, ‘Oh, this is Obama’s economy.’ That’s fine. Give it to me. My job is to solve problems -- not to stand on the sidelines and carp and gripe. So I welcome the job. I want the responsibility.”

For the record... No one forced Barack Obama to borrow and spend a trillion dollars on a disastrous non-Stimulus Bill.

Flan the censor nazi?

Personal attacks have had posters banned before.

Just keep posting the same BS and you might find yourself out of the forum.

Just a heads up.

Sinclair Broadcast Group spelled out Tuesday just how close it is to bankruptcy.

http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2009/07/14/daily.9/

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Call it karma

When Republicans endorsed empathy

Bush 41 praises “empathy” of Clarence Thomas

http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001928/

Bush I: [Clarence Thomas] is a delightful and warm, intelligent person who has great empathy and a wonderful sense of humor.

But that was before empathy was a dirty word, and before Republicans gave up all hope of winning national elections again

(Kos)

Not that anybody takes fredo's post seriously, but for his sake I'ma straighten a few things out.

1. there was a few (out of thousands) that boo'ed Obama for wearing a White Sox jacket at a National League field... but anyone that has kept up knows that's his team, rather than the Cubs. no biggie

2. he threw a good pitch over the plate despite wearing a buletproof vest under that White Sox jacket

3. Obama accepted the job of fixing what dumya fk'd up, NOT the responsibility of creating the mess

Don't feed the trolls.

Concerning facebook; It's come to the point were you are unable to use your real name on facebook or blogs for that matter in fear of attacks on you and your friends that do not agree with the oposition. People like David Corn should be proud and be aplaud for the size of their grapefruits to speak there mind.

Off topic: I ran across the blog of Arthur Silber, one of the many victims of the USA's lack of universal health care.

This guy often has to choose between food and medicine.

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2009/07/slowly-trying-to-regroup.html

The linked page includes a PayPal link, if you can afford to help him. Any amount is appreciated.