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9.7% unemployment good news? Must be a Democrat in office!

From the Hot Air link, we read that columnist Tommy Christopher sees that March jobs reports, which has unemployment holding at 9.7%, is super-duper good!

The headline:

March Jobs Report Good News for America, Bad News for GOP

All right!

Nothing like being a hair under double-digit unemployment to get those happy shivers going down your spine.

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The Health Care Albatross and some advice for the Dems

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Old Nancy seems to be limping her way ever closer to her goal of 216.  She swears she’s got the votes to get this done, and probably by tomorrow afternoon, barring some other delay, we’ll know whether it’s still safe to get sick in this country or not. 

But with them so close to their goal, we [...]

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Brooks: Obama can't get anything done, so he's a moderate, or something

David Brooks swings so wildly back-and-forth in some of his opinion pieces, I’m surprised his glasses haven’t flown off.  One moment, the liberal commenters on his NYT posts call him a crazed right-winger, and the next moment republican commenters are saying he’s a radical leftist media-type.  I guess to be a moderate, which Brooks is [...]

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The difference between Michael Steele and Dede Scozzafava is…?

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Dede actually had the guts to come out and support the Democrats. 

Steele doesn’t go the distance like Dede, but he’s pretty good at beating up on Republicans. 

Wait… wait… isn’t Steele the Chairman of the Republican National Committee?  What do you mean, he’s beating up on Republicans?  He wouldn’t do that, right?

Yeah, that’s kind of the [...]

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Repubs win big in 2010? Let’s put the breaks on this train for a minute

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I’m starting to see a lot a blog posts floating around about the Republicans picking up big seats in the House and Senate and whatnot. 

I wanted to shoot out a quick post to say, yo’, it’s August 2009.  There’s plenty of time between now and the fall of 2010 for bad things to [...]

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Can old McCain advisors go away, please?

I wasn’t a big fan of McCain before he ran for the White House.  Sure, once it was clear he was the only choice, I got on board, but few of us conservatives had much love for him.  During the campaign he caused ample amounts of frustration, from how he dealt with Palin to refusing [...]

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Rasmussen: 54% oppose higher taxes for Universal Health Care

Usually the way these things go is that a general idea gets support, but when the actual specifics come out, popularity begins to sink.

Not so, apparently, with the idea of health care reform, where 54% of Americans are opposed to having their taxes raised for it right out of the gate.  I would have assumed [...]

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Gallup reports more Americans Pro-Life than Pro-Choice

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A very interesting article from Gallup this morning. 

A new Gallup Poll, conducted May 7-10, finds 51% of Americans calling themselves “pro-life” on the issue of abortion and 42% “pro-choice.”

I didn’t see this coming. 

As Gallup shows in their article, this is an almost complete reversal from their previous year’s polling results.  The questions regarding the extreme [...]

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Sincere advice for Republicans

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The giant Porkzilla package is lumbering its way through the Senate, all $827 billion dollars of it at a conservative measure, and apparently will be passed by mid-week. 

After some moderate scrutiny, the disguise has fallen off, and the ugly monstrosity underneath has become apparent for all to see.  It’s bloated spending in all its glory.  [...]

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