The Presidential Planner

Excellent work Congress! Now that you have helped save all the deadbeats that never should have been allowed to buy a home in the first place, the banks, first-time home buyers, GM, and anyone else you can politicallt think of – you finally get around to thinking about those who could have helped slow this whole thing down: home owners with good credit and enough equity to sell their home, buy another one and fill it up with durable goods.
Now that my home is worth 40% of it’s highest value, you are going to give me a hand. And we want these bozos running health care?

I wonder if he will sit down with the Governors-Elect from Virginia and New Jersey? Naaah.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 29% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -8. Fifty-five percent (55%) expect Washington politics to become more partisan over the coming year.
Tuesday’s election results confirmed data released earlier showing that 66% of voters are angry at the policies of the federal government and 60% say that neither Republican nor Democratic political leaders have an understanding of what is needed today .

Latest CNN Opinion Research Poll:
Question 27. As you may know, several health care bills have been passed by committees in the U.S. House and Senate and they can be brought before Congress for debate and a final vote at any time. Which of the following do you think Congress should do:
26% – Continue working on those bills this fall and make relatively minor changes before passing final legislation
33% – Continue working on those bills this fall but pass final legislation only if major changes are made
24% – Start work on entirely new bills that would not be ready until some time next year
15% – Stop working on any bills that would change the country’s health care system
ONLY 26% want to continue working on bills with minor changes…

From the Bureau of Labor Statistics website:
“This news release presents statistics from two major surveys, the Current Population Survey (household survey)
and the Current Employment Statistics survey (establishment survey). The household survey provides the information on the labor force, employment, and unemployment that appears in the A tables, marked HOUSEHOLD DATA. It is a sample
survey of about 60,000 households conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The establishment survey provides the information on the employment, hours, and earnings of workers on nonfarm
payrolls that appears in the B tables, marked ESTABLISHMENT DATA. This information is collected from payroll
records by BLS in cooperation with state agencies. The sample includes about 160,000 businesses and government
agencies covering approximately 400,000 individual worksites. The active sample includes about one-third of all nonfarm
payroll workers. The sample is drawn from a sampling frame of unemployment insurance tax accounts.”

“Owens is the first democrat to win in the region since 1857.”
That’s not a factually correct statement.
1979 – 1993 the district was represented by a Democrat.
1923 – 1973 the district was represented by a Democrat.”
Concerned in OH | Nov 6, 2009 10:38:52 AM
You are making an erroneous assumption that “the region” is the same as “the district”; it’s not. The district has been redrawn many times. Currently, the majority of the population lives in area that has not had a Democrat representative since 1890 or earlier. Franklin County has had a Whig representative more recently than a Democrat.
The original comment was not fully defined, but it was entirely accurate as far as it went.

What a fantastic time to pass gov’t run health care.
Lets encourage more illegals to come here for free health care.
millie | Nov 6, 2009 11:00:05 AM
Illegals are explicitly banned from receiving health care under the new plan. And yes, all those unemployed probably do think it’s a good time to deal with the problems of the unemployed or independently employed being unable to get insurance with a pre-existing condition and individuals being socked with extremely high premiums. And don’t even try to buy health care with cash – heck, try to even call around and comparision shop the price of a C-section.

Fifty-two percent (52%) of voters feel that America’s best days are in the past, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. This marks the highest level of voter pessimism in two years and is up 13 points from a year ago when Barack Obama was elected president. Thirty-five percent (35%) feel the nation’s best days are still to come, down 13 points since President Obama’s inauguration in January.

And Peas, what I see in those numbers is that 59% want to work with the bills on the table. You realize I’m one who would say I want major changes
Posted by: Alyson | Nov 6, 2009 10:21:01 AM
Wow! I didn’t see THAT one coming! Some of the 33% may want to see major changes like a single payer system to make the bill even worse (or better) than it already is. So I guess the option is vague enough that a pundit could do whatever they want with 33% of the responses. Maybe we should just throw out the 33% and say
26% like the bill with minor changes;
39% want to throw it out and start over or stop working on HC completely

Explicitly banned, while technically accurate, you know is a complete falsehood. There’s zero enforcement, zero citizenship verification, nothing.
vs.
That is a lie and I invite anyone reading to google up all the factchecks on it they want. The method of citizenship verification is not explicitly defined but the requirement for it is.
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Both of you just said the same thing, but jhw for some reason labels it a lie.
Man, the “lie” thing gets old.

Illegals are explicitly banned from receiving health care under the new plan.
Posted by: jhw539 | Nov 6, 2009 11:10:18 AM
Liberal talking point #286
They are definitely “banned.” You just can’t ask anyone for proof of citizenship. “Are you a citizen? Yes. Good, sign here please!”

This is all ultimately a moot point. This was a fluke election for a meaningless seat.
Posted by: jhw539 | Nov 6, 2009 11:21:09 AM
The President would disagree. He was “heartened” by the victory and is taking time out to meet with Owens (instead of taking the time to mull over the two wars he is running).

Hoyer has already come out and said the vote will be pushed to Sunday or possibly next week. Turns out it was just another Hail Nancy pass.
Posted by: Concerned in OH | Nov 6, 2009 12:28:21 PM
What are they waiting for? All in I say! Let’s get this puppy rolling! 20, no 37, 42 uh, er, million people are uninsured and need help from the Entitlement Kings!

Gotta roll…
If I don’t get back here today, have a great weekend y’all. Tomorrow will be interesting.
Posted by: Alyson | Nov 6, 2009 12:07:07 PM
Translation: You all live long, dull and uninteresting lives.

Robert Reich:
I sincerely hope America gets genuine health reform and I hope it’s stronger than what’s emerging in the Senate. (Whoever voted for Joe Lieberman last time around ought to pray for continued good health.) I worry, though, that Obama’s strategy may turn out to be a mistake comparable to Clinton’s overemphasis on deficit reduction. Obama’s focus on health care rather than jobs, when the economy is still so fragile and unemployment moving toward double digits, could make it appear that the administration has its priorities confused. While affordable health care is critically important to Americans, making a living is more urgent. Yet the administration’s efforts to date on this more basic concern have been neither particularly visible nor coherent.
Robert Reich?
Robert Reich!

And another tax reduction to help spur the economy.
Posted by: tierra | Nov 6, 2009 4:11:25 PM
Excellent work Congress! Now that you have helped save all the liar loan deadbeats, banks, first-time home buyers, GM, and anyone else you can politically think of – you finally get around to thinking about those who could have helped slow this whole thing down: home owners with good credit and enough equity to sell their home, buy another one and fill it up with durable goods.
A little late, my friends, as my home isn’t worth squat. But hey! I’ll be happy to throw in a hundred grand of my own money to move and get that dandy tax credit I’m also paying for!