More poll results on terrorism, Iraq, and the leadership in general. Overall, a very mixed bag, with Bush approval ratings somewhat on the rise, but a majority of respondents unhappy with the state of the country, and a plurality of the opinion that, to date, the terrorists are winning the "war no terror."
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Public Opinion Polls Still Question Republican LeadershipThe millionth example of NSA spying nonsenseThe right either doesn't get it or, far more likely, doesn't want to get it, when it comes to the NSA warrantless surveillance program. Kurdistan capitalismJ. Paul Bremmer's Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) that ruled Iraq early in the occupation tried mightily to convert Iraq to the kind of unregulated free market state that Republicans are so busy creating right here at home. Quote of the dayIf we can't make a difference, at least we can make some noise. Amy Williams of North Georgia Pediatric Therapies, speaking about changes to Medicaid in Georgia, including cuts or elimination of certain services for children, and a change in billing from direct reimbursement of providers by Medicaid, to a system in which Medicaid reimburses private health insurance companies who will take over billing, with providers required to then obtain reimbursement from the insurance companies. If "welfare reform" is a success....As you may have heard, welfare reform under Clinton had its 10th birthday this past Tuesday. And all "right-thinking" conservatives hailed and toasted and praised until their servants called them to dinner. The phony bias claim about Judge Taylor in the NSA caseThis burns my butt as bad as anything the propaganda mill has done in quite some time. So the pseudo-watchdog group "Judicial Watch" claims that Judge Taylor, who recently ruled that the NSA warrantless surveillance program was unconstitutional, is so biased that her failure to recuse herself calls for "investigation," and, by implication, no one should take her ruling in the case seriously. You don't need credit counselling, you need Christian credit counsellingThese days, businesses seem to see an immediate advantage to popping "Christian" in front of the description of services offered. So now we have "Christian credit counseling" and "Christian debt consolidation." As if being Christian changed the advice you're going to get. Nastier, Deeper RecessionUh-oh. Either it's time to circle the wagons or it's tin-foil-hat time... Hey, Ford? GM? You Might Want To Read This!Attention, executives of Ford and General Motors: Did you wonder why your sales are suffering? Please check this out.... Those conservative priorities and values: sex above allHere's a great headline for the times, don't you think? Conservatives Try to Curtail Hotel Porn |
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