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Poll Shows Voters Trust Republicans Over Democrats on Key Issues
Tweet Share on Facebook August 27, 2010 Comment (14)When the GOP lost control of Congress in 2006 it was because the American voter no longer trusted them to lead. Having grown complacent as “the party in power,” they gave every indication they had forgotten why the voters sent them to Washington in the first place.
Pledging to reform the way Congress did its business, then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats rode into power on a wave that augured the election of Barack Obama as president just two years later.
Now, says pollster Scott Rasmussen, the shoe is on the other foot. According to data Rasmussen released Thursday, the American electorate now “trust the Republicans more than Democrats on all 10 of the important issues” he regularly tracks.
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Is Obama Planning a Bush Tax Cut October Surprise?
Tweet Share on Facebook August 26, 2010 Comment (14)There is a feeling in Washington—perhaps even a fear—that President Barack Obama will, as an "October Surprise," call for legislation extending most but not all of the Bush tax cuts.
With the Republicans still hashing out their agenda for the fall, the thinking goes, a push to keep taxes from going up on all but the so-called "wealthiest Americans" will throw the GOP for a loop. A fall campaign based on class warfare, some Democrats believe, should bring out enough Obama voters to blunt the impact of the tide expected to swamp the majority in the upcoming congressional elections.
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Obama Demagogues Campaign Finance and Disclose Act
Tweet Share on Facebook August 25, 2010 Comment (5)In his weekly radio address President Barack Obama called on the Republicans to allow a vote on a campaign finance bill written in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the landmark Citizens United case.
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GOP Should Run on the Economy, Not the Ground Zero Mosque
Tweet Share on Facebook August 20, 2010 Comment (12)The nation’s attention has been captured by the proposed construction of an Islamic mosque and cultural community center on the southern end of Manhattan.
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Republican Agendas Emerge In Runup to 2010 Elections
Tweet Share on Facebook August 18, 2010 Comment (2)The GOP’s drive towards a new congressional majority has, to this point, focused mostly on what has been wrong with the way President Barack Obama and the Democrats have attempted to govern. What has been missing, say many analysts, has been the development of what former House Speaker Newt Gingrich once called “an agenda worth voting for.”
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Obama’s Approval Rating Could Spell Disaster in 2010 Elections
Tweet Share on Facebook August 17, 2010 Comment (13)The White House had hoped that the summer of 2010 would be “recovery summer,” a time when the jobs numbers would rebound and the U.S. economy would again begin to grow.
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Obama’s Coming Tax Hikes Will Cripple the Economy
Tweet Share on Facebook August 13, 2010 Comment (17)Rather than be in the middle of “recovery summer,” the U.S. economy is still flat on its back. And it’s likely to get worse after the first of the year, thanks to the tax hikes the White House is planning.
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Obama's Stimulus Is Only Boosting the National Debt
Tweet Share on Facebook August 12, 2010 Comment (12)Anyone who still thinks the Obama stimulus was a good idea and helped the U.S. economy up off its back would do well to take a look at a new report--titled "Summertime Blues"--documenting just how wasteful and mismanaged it is.
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Obama’s Moratorium on Offshore Oil Drilling is Killing the Gulf’s Economy
Tweet Share on Facebook August 10, 2010 Comment (13)The leak in the Deepwater Horizon well is plugged. What many predicted would be the worst environmental disaster in modern history is fizzling out, already beginning to fade into the recess of memory. Almost.
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Is Gay Marriage Good for America?
Tweet Share on Facebook August 6, 2010 Comment (101)U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision to invalidate California’s ban on same-sex marriage will force everyone to think about whether gay marriage is good for America.
