They’re finally realizing they got bamboozled by the messiah last November.
Barack Obama is losing his luster here in the Old Dominion. While Creigh Deeds will attend a fundraiser with the chosen one, he is noticeably absent everytime Obama shows up here.
Deeds is trailing McDonnell by 14 points, I guarantee Obama is 10 points of that.
State Sen. R. Creigh Deeds stands to raise a pile of cash and energize his party’s base at his first joint appearance with President Obama on Thursday, but it’s an open question whether it will do anything to help his faltering gubernatorial campaign.
Mr. Obama, his popularity sagging amid doubts over his handing of health care and the economy, could be a liability for the Virginia Democratic candidate, according a poll published Wednesday.
Nine months after he shocked the nation by becoming the first Democrat to carry Virginia in a presidential election in 44 years, Mr. Obama has an approval rating of 42 percent among the state’s residents, according to the survey by nonpartisan Public Policy Polling, which is based in Raleigh, N.C.
Since the mainstream drive-by media refuses to say his party affiliation, I certainly will……….he is (was) a DEMOCRAT!
In the end, it wasn’t the cash in the freezer.
But a jury of eight women and four men decided after five days of deliberation that former Rep. William J. Jefferson was a criminal anyway.
The approximately $90,000 found four years ago this week stuffed into pie-crust and veggie-burger boxes emerged as the most notorious detail of the Louisiana Democrat’s corruption trial, but Jefferson was acquitted of the charge involving the freezer money and four other counts.
Nevertheless, Jefferson was found guilty on 11 of the 16 public-corruption charges, including bribery, money laundering and racketeering.
In addition to being fiscally unsustainable, the health-care-reform plan emerging from Democrats in Congress raises disturbing questions for our nation’s seniors. If President Obama pushes through proposed “reforms,” seniors could very well face rationed care as the result of a raid on the coffers of a Medicare program that’s already nearly bankrupt.
One particular provision in the Democratic bill has seniors worried, and rightly so. A new “Center for Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation” could ration access to medicines and treatments based on the government’s assessment of the value of a human life and the “cost-effectiveness” of treatment.
This became abundantly clear when Senator Mike Enzi (R., Wyo.) introduced an amendment designed to ensure that the new center could not put a value on life-saving treatment by using “quality of life” and “cost-effectiveness” measures “for the denial of Medicare benefits to patients against their wishes.” Because Democrats rejected the amendment in a party-line vote, the proposed new entity would be able to impose restrictions on access to treatment, as is common in European countries with socialized medicine. Elderly, disabled, and medically dependent patients would be at greatest risk of being denied necessary care.
I swear this country is going to hell. I’m surprised this idiot can understand any bills that comes his way. He can afford to act stupid though, he is the smartest one in his district.
Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman will likely wait until March or April before announcing his political plans, including whether he will run for governor in 2010, a spokesman said Monday.
Republican Coleman has not had a public profile since he conceded defeat in his 2008 race to DFLer Al Franken on June 30, after a protracted court case over the results.
At the time, Coleman indicated he might have a statement about his future after the July 4th holiday, creating speculation that he might run for governor in 2010.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a Republican, has announced he will not seek a third term.