Charming Conservative

Quinnipiac: Obama Approval Dips Below 50%

Seeded on Wed Nov 18, 2009 2:24 PM EST (quinnipiac.edu)

"Although President Obama's job approval rating is below 50 percent for the first time nationally, it is not statistically different from his 50 percent approval rating in October.

politics, obama, economy, president, white-house, afghanistan, job-approval, quinnipiac-poll

Democrats Resist Push To Curb Credit Card Rates

Seeded on Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:04 AM EST (The Boston Globe)

WASHINGTON - Efforts in Congress to cap credit-card interest rates are faltering because of opposition from Democrats and a lack of specific support from the White House, despite growing consumer outrage over a rush by banks to impose rates as high as 30 percent.

politics, obama, democrats, congress, president, white-house, joe-biden, bernard-sanders, thomas-carper

Critics Rip New Mammogram Guidelines

Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 4:17 PM EST (FOXNews.com)

Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are blasting new guidelines from a government task force that recommends against routine mammograms for women under 50, questioning whether they are tantamount to health care "rationing" in the fight against the No. 2 cancer killer in U.S. women.

politics, cancer, healthcare, breast-cancer, phil-gingrey, department-health-human-services

Christie Wins NJ Governor's Race Defeats Corzine

Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 10:37 AM EST (NJ.com)

Former U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie has defeated Gov. Jon Corzine in his bid for re-election.

politics, new-jersey, jon-corzine, chris-christie, chris-daggett

NJ Dems Admit Funding Pro-Daggett Robocall

Seeded on Tue Nov 3, 2009 12:16 PM EST (www.politickernj.com)

The Democratic State Committee now admits paying for a robocall to Somerset County voters that slams Republican Chris Christie and promotes independent gubernatorial candidate Christopher Daggett.

politics, democrats, new-jersey, jon-corzine, chris-christie, chris-daggett, joe-cryan

Conservative Revolt Good News For Republicans

Seeded on Mon Nov 2, 2009 3:26 PM EST (washington examiner)

Hoffman, a successful accountant from White Plains, N.Y., sought the GOP nomination to run for the seat left vacant when Obama tapped eight-term Republican John McHugh to be secretary of the Army.

politics, obama, democrats, republicans, president, hillary-clinton, conservatives, doug-hoffman, bill-owens, john-mchugh

173

Why Corzine Is In Trouble

Seeded on Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:52 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

"At one point I told him, 'Just stop it,' " said state Senate President Richard J. Codey, a Democrat who preceded Corzine as governor and remains popular.

politics, new-jersey, jon-corzine, chris-christie, chris-daggett, 2009-election, carla-katz, governor-florio

Reid's Big Miscalculation

Seeded on Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:42 AM EDT (thehill.com)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) lost the first floor battle of the healthcare reform debate Wednesday when 12 Democrats and one Independent joined all Republicans to defeat a bill to halt Medicare cuts affecting doctors.

politics, democrats, republicans, healthcare, medicare, reid, ama, debbie-stabenow, senator-harry-reid

Romney Reboots

Seeded on Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:23 PM EDT (National Review Online)

Romney's strategy in the last campaign was not to run as the social conservatives' candidate. It was to run as the movement-conservative candidate….

politics, republicans, john-mccain, gop, conservatives, mitt-romney, tim-pawlenty, 2012-election

NJ: Christie Says Corzine's Attack Will Fall Flat

Seeded on Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:17 PM EDT (RealClearPolitics)

Chris Christie, the Republican candidate for New Jersey governor, joins the Morning Joe gang to discuss the increasingly bitter fight for the state's top job.

politics, new-jersey, morning-joe, jon-corzine, chris-christie

NJ Gubernatorial Q Poll: Chris Christie +1

Seeded on Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:06 PM EDT (TIME)

With independent candidate Chris Daggett increasingly seen as a potential spoiler, it's noteworthy that only 39 percent of his supporters say they're mind is made up, compared to 80 percent of Christie voters and 75 percent of Corzine backers.

politics, new-jersey, jon-corzine, chris-christie, chris-daggett, quinnipiac-poll

Obama As Whiner-In-Chief

Seeded on Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:45 PM EDT (The Nation)

As for the Obama administration, whether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing.

politics, obama, president, white-house, blogs, fox-news

Will Obama Veto Obamacare?

Seeded on Wed Oct 7, 2009 4:49 PM EDT (human events)

With the Senate Finance Committee poised to pass health care legislation, the final contours of the bill that could come out of Congress are starting to come into focus. The bill will contain new taxes on the middle class. It will add to the deficit.

politics, obama, president, healthcare, senate-finance-committee

Obama's Bias Toward Unions Is Bad for the Country

Seeded on Wed Oct 7, 2009 1:52 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

The costs of a heavily unionized workforce outweigh the benefits. Organized labor often politicizes the workforce and hinders economic efficiency. Once a workplace is unionized, it's more difficult to fire unproductive workers, and thus a lot harder to hire good ones too.

politics, obama, china, president, labor, unions, nafta

Obama Snubs Dalai Lama to Appease China

Seeded on Tue Oct 6, 2009 11:03 AM EDT (The Washington Times)

The last time the Dalai Lama visited Washington, President George W. Bush presented the exiled Tibetan leader with the Congressional Gold Medal at a ceremony on Capitol Hill. Now the Dalai Lama cannot even get a private meeting with President Obama.

politics, obama, china, president, george-w-bush, tibet, dalai-lama

187

LA AG: ACORN Embezzlement $5MM, not $1MM

Seeded on Tue Oct 6, 2009 10:15 AM EDT (NOLA.com)

Louisiana's attorney general has broadened the scope of an investigation of ACORN to include a possible embezzlement of $5 million a decade ago within the community organization, five times more than previously reported

politics, louisiana, acorn, wade-rathke, bertha-lewis, dale-rathke, buddy-caldwell

Obama's Cynical Afghan Ploy

Seeded on Thu Oct 1, 2009 12:29 PM EDT (The Week)

But here's what Obama should be blamed for, and severely: Virtually every fact about Afghanistan that is discouraging him now was known to him (or anyway, told to him) 15 months ago. He extended the commitment anyway, repeatedly and emphatically.

politics, obama, president, afghanistan, mcchrystal, david-frum

Sarkozy's Contempt For Obama

Seeded on Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:21 PM EDT (RealClearPolitics)

The contempt with which the president of France regards the president of the United States was displayed in public last week.

politics, obama, iran, president, france, united-nations, nuclear-weapons, sarkozy

Newsvine Lowers Bar For Civil Discourse: A Rebuttal

Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:22 PM EDT

On September 9th, a shout rang out in the chamber as President Obama addressed a joint session of congress on healthcare.

Continue reading this entry ...

politics, obama, president, newsvine, lies, meta, acorn, distortion, dishonesty, misrepresentation

158

Pres Didn't Know Acorn Received Alot of Fed Funds

Seeded on Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:10 PM EDT (RealClearPolitics)

Obama: "I Didn't Know Acorn Was Getting A Lot Of Federal Money." Video Linked.

politics, stimulus, president-obama, acorn

1063

Strangers To Dissent, Liberals Try To Stifle It

Seeded on Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:05 PM EDT (RealClearPolitics)

It is an interesting phenomenon that the response of the left half of our political spectrum to criticism and argument is often to try to shut it down. Thus President Obama in his Sept.

politics, democrats, president-obama, liberals, nancy-pelosi

203

Obama Beginning To Look Out of His Depth

Seeded on Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:51 AM EDT (Telegraph)

Regimes in Moscow, Pyongyang and Tehran simply pocket his concessions and carry on as before. The picture emerging from the White House is a disturbing one, of timidity, clumsiness and short-term calculation. Some say he is the weakest president since Jimmy Carter.

politics, president-obama, president-carter

House Votes To Defund Acorn

Seeded on Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:47 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

WASHINGTON – The House has voted to deny all federal funding for ACORN, the community organizing group that has been caught up in several scandals.

politics, president-obama, house-of-representatives, acorn, u-s-senate

209

Obama's Dissolving Credibility

Seeded on Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:55 PM EDT (RealClearPolitics)

This is what Obama's supposed gift for rhetoric amounts to: the ability to tell a smoothly polished bald-faced lie.

politics, healthcare, president-obama

224

Obama's Savings Won't Pay For Health Plan

Seeded on Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:08 PM EDT (The Kansas City Star)

Despite President Barack Obama's insistence that his $900 billion health care plan won't increase already-huge federal budget deficits, experts say that it would - unless he raised more taxes than he's suggesting he would.

politics, healthcare, president-obama, deficit

118

– Show More

Recent Votes

Obama faces showdowns on health, Afghanistan, jobs
President Barack Obama will have scant time to rest up from his eight-day Asia trip.
9
35
Jesse Jackson The Racist: 'You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man'
Source: thehill.com
The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats' signature healthcare bill.
5
1
Is Tim Geithner tough enough to handle America's banks?
Source: Telegraph
Remember the AIG bonus furore? It was mid-March, the global economy was in the depths of recession, and AIG – the insurer American International Group that once sponsored Manchester United – revealed that it was on the verge of paying $165m in bonuses to staff at the division …
4
14
Andrew McCarthy responds to Holder's Testimony
Source: National Review Online
The man who tried the blind sheik for the '93 WTC bombing responds to the testimony of Eric Holder before the senate judiciary committee.
9
32
Quinnipiac: Obama Approval Dips Below 50%
Source: quinnipiac.edu
"Although President Obama's job approval rating is below 50 percent for the first time nationally, it is not statistically different from his 50 percent approval rating in October.
17
64

– Show More

Comments & Feedback

November 3, 2009 - Congrats, your man won in NJ. I can't wait to watch you party; I'll be on the sidelines, but I'll watch. He better be good!

— Joanna Caroll

I enjoy your posts and comments.

— unafraid

Lisaed, thanks for the invite. Injecting sanity into the current political witches brew is getting more challenging by the day; keep up the good work!

— themman

Lisa, I may not agree with some of your seeds, but I respect your involvement in the 'process'.

Just keep it real, gurl! :)

— Michael Buie

You want facts re AARP? Go the www.healthactionnow.org
Of course their site probably wouldn't matter to you because that's not really what interests you. You just want to hear what you say and thank those who agree with you. What a riot you are. Charming? You? I don't think so. You are so into hyperbole! And the picture....as if!! LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

— Joanna Caroll

Thank you for accepting friendship.

— Oliver Shagnastey

Love your posts! Won't it be fun to sit back and laugh come December, when The One has been in office for a year and nothing has improved? Will they still bash Bush? OMG...who will they blame??!! ~chuckles~ See ya 'round the Vine

— GeminiGirl

lisaed- Thanks for the friend request. Your comments provide good reading. angela593

— angela593

I enjoy your viewpoints and your charm. :)

— Simplistic Reality

Hello Sister-
While we remail ever so polarized in our politics this time of year, I will always be your biggest fan. May your next candidate possess half of your command of our fair language! Cheers.
-NYCDEMSIS

— NYCDEMSIS

OYEZ, OYEZ, OYEZ!!! YOU ARE CHARMING, FAIR AND GIVING THE DIVA A SCARE!

— fechancellor

I have to tell you just how much I enjoy reading your posts and checking out the latest seeds from Lisaed!

Fast becoming a 'must read' on the 'Vine

— DAWeb