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Subscribe to RSSThe new Washington Post/ABC poll: "Deepening economic pessimism has pushed down President Obama’s approval rating to a near record low, but he holds an early advantage over prospective 2012 rivals in part because of widespread dissatisfaction with Republican candidates. In the survey, 47 percent approve of the job Obama is doing, down seven points since January. Half of all Americans disapprove of his job performance, with 37 percent saying they 'strongly disapprove,' nearly matching the worst level of his presidency."
Mark your calenders: Vice President Joe Biden, the White House's new cop on the deficit beat, has called the first meeting of lawmakers on the subject for May 5.
Obama's tax bill: "The president and his wife, Michelle Obama, on Monday reported an adjusted gross income of $1,728,096 for 2010, down from $5.5 million in 2009," the New York Times says. "Most of their income came from sales of his books 'Dreams From My Father' and 'The Audacity of Hope.' The Obamas paid $453,770 in federal taxes, for an effective tax rate of just over 26 percent; the top individual tax rate is 35 percent. The Obamas donated $245,075 — 14.2 percent of their income before tax deductions and exemptions — to 36 charities."
And Politico’s Ben Smith writes about P.J. Crowley going rogue.
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Economic pessimism sounds more like the Media's agenda. Good try though.
Giggidy
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His approval ratings is tied to gas prices. Nothing else. No one is really in tune to the budget battles. That is a constant in our democracy. People shut it out. However everyone gases up once a week, at least, at the pump. That is what is driving his approval down. I'm all in for mass transit projects and clean air & water through alternative fuels. If that means $5 gas so be it. I'm spending that extra $1 on wars in the middle east anyway. I'd like to bring all our troops home. Drive 55 and save our troops!
Hyper miling is good. I try to practice as often as possible.
Giggidy
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AnaBanana - You are so wrong. People are tuning in and they dont like it.
Republicans' Trickery says Americans #1 Priority is the "Debt" Americans say it's Unemployment, Jobs. If you can't put food on the table for the kids, don't a place to live, can't buy gas to find a job, and the Republicans who pledged to Get You A JOB lied, what's a person to do?
People have to realize that this too is a ploy by big companies with republican agendas to make Pres. Obama a one term president. They could very well use money to create jobs but they choose not to so that everything will look bad come election time. Why are they making record profits? Because they get all the tax breaks and don't put this back into job creation. I really believe this is all contrived.
In researching the Obama tax return, he should be pleased that HE passed the tax credit continuation for he saved about $100K in taxes. Imagine, those rich people are evil, and should pay more in taxes......right. Many with lower incomes will be paying more than at the 27% rate.
Biden is another who should thank Obama for the tax cuts. His income was lower but so was his tax rate.
Boy LouisJ, the BS from these guys really makes me giddy too!
wouldnt it be funny if someone threw a shoe at him?
shovel ready, 8%, saved or created, green jobs, hope, change, wtf.
obama will be a 2 term president. not that that is great but look at his competition. trump managed to declare bankruptcy twice, even though he was born rich. romney belongs to a religion that thinks it's ok for a 90 year old man to take a 16 year old for his 5th wife. huckabee & barbour are only regional candidates, once they leave the bible belt, they're toast. pawlenty? he has no plan to improve unemployment, or the mass exodus to china & elsewhere of tens of millions of american jobs. bachman or palin? two attractive clowns. americans are angry at all the baloney that's happened in the last 30 years, but you really don't have any choices. republicans & democrats will both see to it that no one that would change america for the better could ever get on the ballot. look at all the legal shenanigans they pulled on nader.
Nr. 1, get out of afganistan.
nr. 2, get out of Iraq.
Nr. 3, Stay out of Libya.
Nr. 4, Don't even think about getting involved in syria. and all of these countries cannot pay for our lost american lives. But cmon people, these people owe the u.s. something, at least a percentage of their oil sales.
The u. s. is broke , china has us over a barell, as well as japan and the U K. enough is enough. Us americans are tired of paying and paying and paying. The american people have no say in anything anymore. What happened to "A GOVERNMENT FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE" . Is this goverment waiting for an uprising in this country like what is happening in all the eastern countries,,,cause it will lead to that sooner or later if this government doesn't smarten up. The american people are mad as hell and it is comming to a head. Go tea party, we need you.