crosscut.com - 3/4/2009
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Last weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference , and the ensuing media coverage , have focused attention only six weeks after President Obama's inaugural on a fast mobilizing political opposition. This is record short time, after a national election defeat, for a rallying of the ...
rasmussenreports.com - 2/26/2009
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rasmussenreports.com —
In early October , as the meltdown of
the financial industry gained momentum following the collapse of...
Lehman Brothers, a Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 59% of U.S. voters agreed with Ronald Reagan that “government is not the ...
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59% Still Believe Government Is the Problem
balloon-juice.com - 3/8/2009
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balloon-juice.com —
I don’t understand : Factory jobs disappeared. Inflation
soared. Unemployment climbed to alarming levels. The hungry lined...
up at soup kitchens. It wasn’t the Great Depression. It was the 1981-82 recession, widely considered ...
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How Is This Possible?
pajamasmedia.com - 3/2/2009
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pajamasmedia.com —
We came to Washington in 1977, and Jimmy
Carter had just been inaugurated. So I well remember...
the years of malaise and humiliation, the stagflation, chilly offices in the winter, the rapidly expanding power of the Soviet Union, the appeasement ...
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Is it Jimmy Obama?
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HorsesAss.Org —
... Ted Van Dyk, who self-identifies as a life long Democrat, writing at Crosscut, has some concerns about the Obama administration. Which is fine, although I think it’s worth addressing. ...
Opposition to Obamunism Rallying Already
Moonbattery —
... will be Chairman Zero's downfall. In six weeks he has managed to do more damage to the US economy than any president in history, has nationalized what was until now the world's best healthcare system, has imposed crippling energy taxes, and looks forward to vastly strengthening the terminal cancers known as unions. But 52% does not make a mandate, especially when the vast majority of Obama voters were deliberately duped by the leftist media into thinking he was a moderate. As Ted Van Dyk acknowledges, opposition is forming fast: ...
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