The POTUS/Endangered Senate Democrats Show
Because we haven’t seen Barack Obama campaigning enough on TV the past two weeks, the White House broadcast his meeting with the Senate Democratic Policy Committee Issues Conference this morning.
The audio stream is here if you are just dying to hear him and aren’t near a boob tube.
The event was a dog-and-pony show with the majority’s most vulnerable Senators — Arlen Specter, Michael Bennet, Blanche Lincoln, Evan Bayh — getting hand-picked by Harry Reid to ask “tough” questions (Will you join me in this? Sign on to that? Etc. Etc.).
At one point, President Obama started trashing “cable TV” again, reports Brian Stelter. Obama singled out Fox and CNN and told the Senators in the audience to turn the TVs off and stop watching the “echo chamber.”
After 5 minutes, I reached for the remote control and took Obama’s advice.
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Running scared: Is the Senate majority now in play?
With the developments in Illinois and Indiana over the past 24 hours, the Cook Political Report now carries 10 Democratic-held seats in their most competitive categories — meaning, theoretically, that if Republicans ran the table (and lost none of their own toss up seats in Kentucky, Missouri, New Hampshire and Ohio) they could get to 51 seats and the Senate majority.
Is it a longshot? Absolutely. But, remember that recent history has shown that in a national political landscape tipped in favor of one party a strong majority of toss up contests tend to fall that party’s way.
At the end of the 2008 election cycle, Cook rated six Republican-held seat as tossups. Democrats won four of the six. Cook also rated three Republican seats as leaning toward Democrats. Democrats won all three of those.
Go back to the 2006 cycle and a similar trend is apparent. Cook had five Republican-held seats ranked as toss up and Democrats won four of them. Cook’s two Democratic-held toss ups were also won by Democrats.
So, it’s clear that inside straights can happen in Senate races.
The elephant in the room: GOP’s Senate prospects on the rise
The long-shot bid by Republicans to retake control of the Senate is suddenly in play, as the prospect of high-profile Republican candidates entering the fray has pushed the GOP even or ahead in polling for 10 races.
The potential candidacies of former Republican Govs. George E. Pataki in New York and Tommy G. Thompson in Wisconsin are improving the polling fortunes of the party as it pursues seats long in the hands of Democrats, while the anti-government “tea party” movement has provided momentum to Republican challengers in states such as Florida, Arkansas and Pennsylvania.
“If the election were held today, the Republicans could come close to winning back the Senate, if not actually win it,” said pollster John Zogby.
Republicans are solidly ahead to take at least five seats now held by Democrats – in North Dakota, Delaware, Nevada, Arkansas and Pennsylvania. Five more are now considered winnable – Colorado, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and even liberal New York. Two other races, in California and Washington, are tightening daily.
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Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeres BARRY!!!
The more this bho trashes Fox, the higher the rating goes. I just can not stand to see or hear this bho, ever!
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Not that the GOP can’t screw up royally; but…from your mouth(pen) to God’s ears(eyes).
Frankly, I’d rather poke my eye out with a fork.
Dear Leader is looking and acting more like Hugo Chavez every day. And just as truculent.
It helps to have the media cheerleading for you though.
I’d give a time out to a kid for always acting so petulent and cranky.
I’m so tired of lectures and would bite the end off anyone’s finger that was constantly wagged in my face like that. Back to studying Narcissism 101.
I’m sorry but that picture needs to have a Capucin monkey on the horse in place of the dog. The Littlest Lenin really does look like Curious George. If our nation were not in such dire straits I would be on the floor laughing now.
I know that during the campaign there was a channel on Dish network (satellite) called “The Barak Obama channel” It was there for weeks. Don’t know if there was one on Direct TV or not.
But now that he has no channel, he just has to have some speech for something every day, at least once a day. I am so sick of seeing his purple lips moving, with the garbage exploding from them that I can’t change the channel fast enough when he comes on.And now, here comes Michelle O. Don’t know how much more I can take~!!!
I try never to underestimate the GOP capacity to fumble on the 1 yard line. I’m cautiously optomistic, but I don’t want to get my hopes up too high. If I keep my expectations low, maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Imus and Matt Taibbi just discovered they don’t much care for David Brooks. I shouted out to Michelle, Allah and Hot Air, David Brooks is reviled in another corner of the Internet, Matt Taibbi’s True Slant. It was just a matter of time.
Imus and Matt Taibbi Really Don’t Like David Brooks Join The Club.
Democrats and Republicans – Dogs and Cats living together mass hysteria LOL!
How to turn yourself into Pinhead from Hellraiser. That’s an easy one, write articles, like your David Brooks
I fear it would not be a good thing if the republicans were to take congress. For one thing, what would they do? What is their plan? What is their “contract” with American? (Recall how quickly the last one folded.) Perhaps even a I write this Michael Steele is working on one . . .
Even worse, the whole MSM narrative would shift and suddenly Obama would be the victim of evil heartless republicans. So what would the republicans do in response? What they always do — reach across the aisle to show how nice their are. If there are enough republicans to stop all democrats initiatives that would be fine but I think that is all they are good for.
Of course, it could be argued the narrative is going to change drastically anyway. I am confident by the end of the year, if not much sooner, Obama will be whining not that “Bush did it!” but that he doesn’t have enough power.
Brace yourselves. It is going to get a lot worse.
Interesting. Yes, you know things are bad for Mr. Brooks, a maoist bore, when even Jonah Goldberg is criticizing him. Happily, Mr. Brooks is in no danger of losing his NYT gig but why some conservative intellectuals continue to take him seriously is beyond me.
As governor Pataki was not too bad his first term, then moved farther left every year until he left the office.
Pataki is an untrustworthy RINO and I don’t want him representing my state in any capacity. It will make me very angry if I wind up voting for him just to counter the current Democrat insanity.
Don’t we have any good candidates?
As long as the only alternative to Democrat/communists is Rupublican/communists, there is little to cheer for.
If we wish to keep our country, we must elect people willing to stand up for and with the citizens.
As long as we play their game of voting for the R socialist against the D socialist, we still end up with a socialist.
DON”T VOTE FOR SOCIALISTS, R OR D>
Brooks in mind; these people can be made to disappear if the rest of us ignore them long enough. It does work eventually.
Rumor floating LaHood has requested all Toyota drivers to park their cars.
Toyota is not in the UAW, of course.
David Brooks, seems full of self loathing that he projects out into the rest of the world. He is toxic! I was reading some comment’s on Matt Taibbi’s article slamming Brooks over Haitian relief efforts. Some of the people commenting actually think this caricature – Brooks, is what Republicans and Conservatives represent. Mind boggling what people will buy into.
You go do that while I loufa the back of my thighs with a cheese grater.
LOL…so now Obama doesn’t like CNN either, but I thought he and his advisors had called CNN a real news network?
On February 3rd, 2010 at 11:16 am, TigerLady said:
The audio stream is here if you are just dying to hear him and aren’t near a boob tube.
Frankly, I’d rather poke my eye out with a fork.
You go do that while I loufa the back of my thighs with a cheese grater.
LOLROF !!!!! Must now clean monitor and keyboard.
So what would conservatives do with a 60 seat majority in the senate, a comfortable majority in the house and a conservative president?
I would hope….
-Appoint conservative justices to replace retiring or dying liberals on the SCOTUS.
-Move to a 20% flat tax for everyone above the poverty level.
-Make Tort reform happen and allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines.
-Make it a law to require IDs when voting in elections for federal gov’t candidates.
-Secure our borders and actually deport illegal aliens.
-Make it illegal to transfer illegal enemy combatants into our justice system.
-And in general undo any nightmares created by Obama and the Dems.
Over the top statement by Lahood withdrawn. Causing a successful auto company into bankruptcy or worse, government ownership, doesn’t bother this crowd at all. Just too much blowback on this statement to hold the line. Pull back and thrust forward against capitalism somewhere else.
BTW, CNBC was happy with Lahood’s analysis until he withdrew it.
NJ Aviator, Head to Illinois and start a third party.
Even this won’t help Government Motors. What losers. Toyota will come out of the blocks like Usain Bolt. Government Motors and the UAW will do what they do best and try to sell us poor quality Detroit garbage. They had 40 years to fix their crappy products and gave the finger to the American people instead. Dopes.
Bho is just a whinny, immature, self-centered thug. He hasn’t figured out how to act presidential. While he has tried to play a class act, his actions and verbal insults continue to expose the fact that he has no intention of being POTUS to the entire country. Successful people don’t need scape-goats.
Amen.
POTUS has learned to get through life by becoming a silver-tongued BS artist. This guy is king of the Peter Principle. You cannot do it any more perfectly.
The whole group stood when Obama entered and said,
“Those of us who are about to die salute you,”
Use a spoon…it’ll HURT more.
And isn’t that what the democrats want…us in MORE pain?
Never let it be said we don’t aim to please.
a bit of the ol’ in and out, eh?
/Dean on
We’re gonna take back the House!!!
We’re gonna take back the Senate!!!
And then in 2012, we’re going to Washington DC to take back the Whitehouse!!!
Yeeaarrgghh!!!
/Dean off
nor are they part of Government Motors…LaHood smells like he’s cooking up a sabotage.
Next will be Ford, they didn’t take the bailout(smart pr move),they are making money now while GM and Chrysler are, yep going broke still. How does that happen?