Zogby Report Card: Blowing it over 'half-baked' Obamacare
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Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama has to finally take responsibility for Obamacare and fix it fast or see his legacy tarnished.
GOP Strategy 2014: Pound on the Table
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There is an old law school adage that goes something like: if the law is against you, pound on the facts; if the facts are against you, pound on the law; if both the law and the facts are against you, pound on the table. As the 2014 congressional campaign begins to take shape, I see elements of truth in that.
Zogby Report Card: Only 29% say Obama has nation headed in right direction
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Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama's numbers are mixed, both in approval rating and right-direction, wrong-direction.
Zogby Report Card: Strong opening salvo to gain Big Mo
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Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama is starting the year on a high, using his State of the Union to build momentum for his agenda and shore up his base.
Obama To Congress: 'Yes I Can'
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Make no mistake about it: this was a confident if not defiant President tonight. He was on message tonight listing a number of accomplishments from energy production, to increased graduation rates, to health care expansion, and 8 million new jobs, among others. He called on the better angels of this Congress to join him in making more progress and invited them to join him on other initiatives, including a number of small incremental proposals to free trade, enhance patent processing, enable entrepreneurs, and encourage investment in domestic job growth. “Let’s make progress together.” “Are we going to help or hinder progress?”
Tonight Obama Will Address Congress From A Stronger Position Than Many Realize
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I am going to take a different tack from many of my colleagues. Some just cannot stand President Barack Obama and have simply run out of negatives to write about him. Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal has just given up and argues that “no one is listening to him” anyway. National Journal’s Ron Fournier has declared that Mr. Obama is now desperate at this point in his term and merely “flailing”. Former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen says that the President will be forced to stand tonight before Congress and the American people as a “liar”. It seems, to this coalition of partisans and the pissed off, that Mr. Obama is merely running out the clock for a failed presidency.