Political Lipskip

A Dose of Lipskip

The DC Examiner recons that Obama is headed for a one-term presidency.

Rasmussen Reports indicate that the Democrats and Republicans are nearly even in this week’s edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveys found that the Democrats’ lead is down to just one percentage point. Forty percent (40%) of voters said they would vote for their district’s Democratic candidate while 39% said they would choose the Republican.

This marks the lowest level of support for the Democrats in tracking history and is the closest the two parties have been on the generic ballot.

UCLA economists Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian concluded that Roosevelt’s New Deal lengthened the depression by 7 years.

President Roosevelt believed that excessive competition was responsible for the Depression by reducing prices and wages, and by extension reducing employment and demand for goods and services,” said Cole, also a UCLA professor of economics. “So he came up with a recovery package that would be unimaginable today, allowing businesses in every industry to collude without the threat of antitrust prosecution and workers to demand salaries about 25 percent above where they ought to have been, given market forces. The economy was poised for a beautiful recovery, but that recovery was stalled by these misguided policies.

Dick Morris discusses the “Benedict Arnolds” of the GOP:

…the actions of three people who told their voters that they were Republicans have eliminated any hope that the GOP has for influence during the next two years. By making their own deals with the Obama administration and settling for cosmetic improvements in the so-called stimulus package, Sens. Collins, Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) have sold out their party, their state and their supporters.

Ann Coulter says goodbye to the America that we once loved:

With the stimulus bill, liberals plan to move unfirable government workers into every activity in America, where they will superintend all aspects of our lives.

Treasury Secretary Geithner has some ’splainin’ to do:

Some Republican lawmakers, such as Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, are tired of waiting for more information. Graham said he expected the Treasury to ask Congress for more money than the remaining $313 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), so today he urged Geithner to go ahead and just submit that request right now.

“I can’t tell you that at this point, but if we think there’s a good case for doing it, we’re going to come tell you how we’re going to do it,” replied Geithner.

“Okay, good, so you have no clue,” Graham said with disgust.