Tag: Pres. Obama
Americans Confused About Health Care Law
48%
Total proportion of Americans who are confused about the Affordable Care Act, according to a new Kaiser poll. 22% said they thought the law was recently repealed, while another 26% weren’t sure if it’s still in effect. We’re betting this 48% refers to the reforms as “Obamacare.”
Employment Continues to Rise
9%
Unemployment figure for January, down nearly a full percentage point from November, the largest two-month drop since 1958. Expect Republicans to claim credit, while continuing to deride Obama’s successful stimulus measures.
Most Viewers Were Favorable to SOTU
77%
Number of people who felt “more optimistic” after watching Pres. Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address, according to a CNN poll. Only 19% said it made them “more pessimistic.” Coincidentally, 19% of those polled were Republicans.
Stock Market Rallies After SOTU
12,000.65
Level of the Dow Jones Industrial Average the morning after Pres. Obama’s State of the Union address. This mark is the highest for the Dow since June, 2008.
SOTU Pre-Game Show
Cool little video to watch before the big event.
GOP Continues to Spotlight White Males
Jeb Bush’s recent plea for his party to pay more attention to its Latino members seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Their selection of a white guy Midwesterner to perform the Republican rebuttal to the State of the Union address ignored rising star sunbelt Latinos, including New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) will give the speech, which according to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, will deal with economics.
“Paul Ryan has spent the better part of the last two years explaining exactly why the Democrat agenda has been so bad for jobs and the economy, and why we need to ditch the government-driven approach in favor of creative, common-sense solutions that put the American people back in charge.
Maybe Gov. Bobby Jindal’s poor showing reinforced the natural Republican inclination to stick with white guys
Republicans apparently noticed the economic crisis after the inauguration of Pres. Obama. It slipped past them when they were voting to allow Pres. George W. Bush to run up the deficit to unprecedented levels in order to wage war on a country that had not directly threatened us. They also must have been confused when they voted for Bush’s plan to spend $700 billion to bail out banks and other large corporations that had invested in mortgage-backed securities. Bush signed that Republican-approved law on Oct. 3, 2008.
Rubio, like Rep. Michele Bachmann (GOP/TEA-Minn.), plans his own State of the Union rebuttal for the benefit of his followers.
