The Presidential Planner

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 30% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -9. Thirty-four percent (34%) say the U.S. is generally heading in the right direction .
If health care passes, 72% say it’s likely companies would drop insurance coverage for employees. Most also think that being pushed onto the government option would be bad for workers.

I hope Tapper mentions the ridiculous (and extreme) antics teabots today as they are prancing around DC with a huge poster of piles of dead bodies and the wording”
Don’t forget Cliff Clavin showing up.
The world’s most famous postman (sorry Newman) decrying the evil government.
Some delicious irony

“I see Rasmussen has moved onto outright message testing for the Republicans.”
I see Ryan C still lives in stark fear of ever addressing the issues instead of the messenger.

More than a few Democrats in Congress are perplexed and worried that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is insisting on ramming through a 1,900-page health care bill on Saturday, just days after her party took heavy losses in Tuesday’s elections. “It reminds me of Major Nicholson, the obsessed British major in the film ‘Bridge on the River Kwai,’” one Democrat told me. “She is fixated on finishing her health care bridge even as she’s lost sight of where it’s going and what damage it could cause to her own troops.”
Indeed, the Speaker’s take on Tuesday’s off-year elections struck some of her own members as delusive “happy talk.” “From our perspective, we won last night,” a cheerful Ms. Pelosi told reporters, citing her party’s pick-up of a single House seat in a New York special election and retention of another strongly Democratic seat in California.
That’s not how many of her own troops see it. Democratic Rep. Parker Griffith of Alabama told Politico.com that members are “very, very sensitive” to the fact that the agenda being pushed by party leaders has “the potential to cost some of our front-line members their seats”
On health care, added New Jersey Democrat Bill Pascrell: “People who had weak knees before are going to have weaker knees now.”

Fascist desperately pushing the Dems divided line.
The AARP and AMA endorsement of health care reform must have stung.

Election Day losses in Virginia and New Jersey have congressional Democrats focused like never before on jobs — their own.
While the White House and party leaders are urging calm, Democratic incumbents from red states and Republican-leaning districts are anything but; Tuesday’s statehouse defeats have left them acutely aware that their votes on health care reform and other major Obama initiatives could be career-enders in 2010 or beyond.

“OMG. The idiocy. Is there videotape? i have a feeling there are going to be many gagreels after this event– just one ridiculous moment after another.”
Think Progress has it.
Apparently it was broadcast live on FoxNews.

“Fascist hyena does not want you to know the source for some odd reason.
“Its one thing not to think for yourself fascist but to not give credit to the one’s thinking for you is kind of pathetic.”
As I have stated, if I use material from another source without attribution, that means I am endorsing the facts and argument in that passage as my own. The identity of the source is relevant only to those who fear to respond on the merits, and instead believe it is sufficient to attack the person from whom the message comes instead of responding on the merits.
And I love to send dolts out scurrying for the source.

I” am not passing it off in any respect whatsoever, and it is not used for any commercial purpose.”
Yes why do the morally right thing and give someone credit for their work when you are under no legal obligation to do so.
You’re like a walking stereotype of a lawyer which is odd since most lawyers I know are not like that.

He is indeed a liberal, and a brutally honest one. Your childish and uninformed classification of his views is risible.”
He’s a DLC Democrat.
Nothing risible about that. The Democrats are a big tent with several strong factions versus the right wing nuttery that dominates the Republicans.
“He would describe himself to you (and anyone else) as a liberal,”
He calls himself a neoliberal….IOW a DLC Democrat.
Your pathological dishonesty in describing someone who’s a hawk on foreign policy, dislikes unions and is a firm believer in ending welfare is somehow a liberal is just pathetic.

“I would describe JFK, LBJ, Scoop Jackson, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Adlai Stevenson, and untold thousands of others as liberals, as indeed they would describe themselves”
ROFLMAO!
JFK was a liberal….in 1960.
LBJ was a right wing Democrat when he came into office though he did preside of the passage of the Civil Rights amendment and the creation of the Great Society.
Scoop Jackson was staunch civil rights advocate but he was also a hawk on foreign policy and a vehement anti communist. Neocons tend to cite him as a big influence.
Bill and Hillary Clinton formed the DLC because they disagreed with the liberal faction of the Democratic party.

I will stand on the historical understanding and the record as to the political classification of the people I have identified. But if, for example, you do not choose to describe the author and driving force of the Great Society legislation and the civil rights acts of the 1960′s as a Liberal, that is fine with me. You don’t seem to understand much anyway, and devote a great deal of time and energy to finding labels for a variety of people instead of addressing the thoughts that they convey and the acts through which they have defined themselves.
I’ll say it again: if I am posting something said or written by a person with whom I disagree, I will identify that person. If I post something I agree with, I take it that every last reader will instantly recognize whether the prose is my own or is taken from another source. If it were permissible to link to it here, I would do so, but I understand that it is not allowed.
I consider the source relevant only to those who are incapable of responding to the ideas presented, and thus are content to level personal insults about the author, thinking that this practice constitutes adequate rebuttal.
And mostly I do it because I have discovered one fellow whom I can vex, annoy and infuriate every single time, without fail, and his reaction sets me to cackling out loud without fail.

you do not choose to describe the author and driving force of the Great Society legislation and the civil rights acts of the 1960′s as a Liberal,”
That you deny Johnson’s complex leanings and changes of heart over the years is not surprising. Right wingers prefer black and white thinking.
Johnson is one of the more interesting pols of the 20th century.
He was brought in to shore up Kennedy right flank, the back slapping Texan who was a legislative force. He saw the country thru the mourning of Kennedy, escalated our involvement in Vietnam, oversaw the passage ofthe Civil Rights Act, authored the Great Society legislation and helped hold the country together in the wake of the assasinations of King and RFK..