President Obama’s approval ratings are going to skyrocket.  President Obama announced that he is “saving jobs.” Yes! He’s saving jobs! Is yours one of them? No. But he’s saving jobs.  He went out to Ohio and here’s a portion of his remarks to the Columbus police graduation ceremony. OBAMA: There were those who argued that […]

Election Day, 11/4/08. That was the day of hope.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9625.  At this moment, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is hovering around 6580.  It is down over 3,000 points.  That means that just since November the 4th, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has lost a third of its value, […]

Obama talking with Gordon Brown… OBAMA: What I’m looking at is not the day-to-day gyrations of the stock market but the long-term, uh, ability for the United States and the entire world economy, uh, to regain its footing.  Uh, and, y-y-you know, the stock market is sort of like a tracking poll in politics. It […]

Here’s Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post. ROBINSON: Obama is a winner this week because he got through a huge, complicated, almost $800 billion spending rescue bill in record time. This doesn’t happen in Washington. And — and, you know, sure, the beginning of an administration is the time when you really want to spend […]

How many promises did Obama break during the process of getting the stimulus bill passed in Congress? The number is seven. Here are the promises that were broken: “Make government open and transparent.” “Make it ‘impossible’ for congressmen to slip in pork barrel projects.” “Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the […]