What Democrats Can Expect from Not Listening to We the People … Loss of Congress & Presidency to Republicans
  2010 early election polls you can believe in … Democrats … Do not say that you were not warned. The polling trend has begun, 2010 represents change we can all believe in as Obama and Democrats have completely misread and overstated their change mandate. The One, could be One and Done in 2012 … 58% say next President likely Republican Democrats in Congress and President Obama have not understood the common thread of the fire and anger expressed by “We the...

2010 elections: Democratic fears, GOP hopes: PHOTO
Nervous Democrats are on defense and emboldened Republicans sense opportunity heading into 2010 and the midterm Elections.

Sen. Bennett fares well in Provo exit poll
Provo » A Brigham Young University exit poll conducted on Election Day shows that among Provo residents, U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett has a 55 percent approval rating. Bennett is seeking a fourth term, but is facing several challengers from within his own Republican Party. BYU professor Quin Monson said among voters who strongly identify themselves as Republicans, Bennett's numbers improved to 61 percent. The poll showed Republican Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff had the support of 40...

Compromises get U.S. health bill through
U .S. Republicans are counting on Democratic defectors in the Senate to upend President Barack Obama's goal of extending Health-Insurance coverage to all Americans, now that the House of Representatives has narrowly passed its own reform bill. Though Mr. Obama's objective of enacting Health reform is now nearer reality, major hurdles remain. Republicans vowed Sunday that no final bill will reach the President's desk, with South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham calling the House legislation...

Obama hails Iraq's new 2010 election law
US President Barack Obama congratulated Iraqi MPs Sunday on approving a new law to govern 2010 general Elections, saying it was an important step towards ensuring a lasting peace. ”This is an important milestone as the Iraqi people continue to take responsibility for their future. I want to congratulate Iraq's leaders for reaching this agreement,” Mr Obama said. ”Iraq has known many challenges, and in the past several weeks we've seen that there are still those who would kill...

White House Heralds Iraq Election Law
Calling it a "significant breakthrough," President Obama praised the vote by Iraq's Council of Representatives allowing for parliamentary Elections in January 2010 calling it "an important milestone as the Iraqi people continue to take responsibility for their future."

2010 numbers look bleak for Senate Democrats: PHOTO
NPR is wringing its hands . . . with good reason. Let’s look at their list of Senate races and see how much good news is there for the Dems. Democratic leader Harry Reid is woefully unpopular in Nevada. Six Republicans are competing for the chance to topple him the way GOP Sen. John Thune of South Dakota did to then-Democratic leader Tom Daschle in 2004. RCP has both Republicans Lowden and Tarkanian beating Reid. Let’s keep track. So far we are R-1, D-0. There are three open seats...

Editorial: Unemployment rate ... a number to worry about
The number that President Barack Obama needs to worry about is not two, the number of governorships the Democrats lost on Tuesday. It is 10.2 percent, the Unemployment rate for October announced Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor. Unless the Obama Administration can wrestle that rate down, he and his party face serious political trouble next November. The last time Unemployment passed the highly symbolic double-digit mark was in 1982, and President Ronald Reagan and the Republicans lost 26...

Lone GOP Supporter of House Health Care Bill Defends Vote
Republican Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao says he was standing up for his constituents with his "yes" vote on Health Care reform, citing "exploding" Health Care costs in his district and the need for more accessible Care.  Rep. Anh 'Joseph' Cao, shown here, was the only Republican to vote for Democrats' Health Care bill. (AP Photo) The only House Republican to vote for Democrats' Health Care reform bill Saturday night swiftly defended his decision, no doubt mindful that he could become a pariah of...

Health care reform passes House, debate continues
(NECN: John Moroney) - The focus on the Health Care debate shifts to the Senate, following the passage of reform legislation Saturday night in the House, 220-215. While Congressional Democrats were celebrating Sunday, Republicans remained united in their opposition. The legislation earned the support of only one Republican. It is expected to expand Health Care coverage to 36 million people at a cost of $1 trillion.

Lone Republican to Vote in Favor of Health Care Bill Comments on Decision
Despite reports that House Republicans would unanimously vote against the Health Care reform bill, Representative Joseph Cao surprisingly voted in favor of the bill The Democratic Party’s Health Care reform bill was passed on Saturday night by the slightest of margins in a 220 to 215 vote. The bill required 218 votes to be passed and prior to Saturday night’s vote, prominent Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed their confidence that the proposal would be passed despite...

With House vote, Obama says it's now the Senate's turn to advance the health care overhaul
Washington — President Barack Obama says it's now up to the Senate to take the baton from the House and pass a bill aimed at overhauling the nation's Health Care system. The House narrowly passed a Health Care bill Saturday night. The Senate has yet to schedule a debate on its version of Health Care legislation, and Republicans are pledging to stop the Democratic measure from passing Congress. Obama gave a brief statement on the Health Care initiative in the Rose Garden on Sunday after...

Rep. Cao to Steele: You Need Me
--> ABC News' Rick Klein reports: The decision by Rep. Joseph Cao, R-La. , to vote for the Democrats' Health Care bill last night would put him directly in the Republican Party's firing line, under the standard enunciated by RNC Chairman Michael Steele last week. On ABCNews.com's “Top Line” last week, Steele said of Republicans who support President Obama on Health Care or the Stimulus bill: “So candidates who live in moderate to slightly liberal districts have got to walk a little...

Health Care Bill Passes in House
Saturday night, the House of Representatives passed the Democratic Health Care reform bill by 220 votes to 215. With Health Care reform front and center since the summer, there is no question that passage in the House is a momentous step, although a fight still lies ahead in the Senate. The weekend leaves some lingering questions: Does the tight vote and the desertion of 39 Democrats signal trouble to come? How would the successful passage of Health Care affect Republicans ? Many liberal...

Forget Bipartisanship
Health reform passed the House with just one GOP vote, and the fetishists of bipartisanship are clucking. But Paul Begala says after the Bipartisan march to war in Iraq and other disasters, the Democrats are making a smart bet.

San Diego politicans react to health care bill's passage through House
Reaction to this weekend’s passage of the Health reform bill in the House of Representatives broke along party lines in San Diego’s congressional delegation, as did their votes. The two San Diego Democrats, Susan Davis and Bob Filner, voted for the bill, known as the “Affordable Health Care for America Act.” Republicans Brian Bilbray, Duncan D. Hunter and Darrell Issa were opposed. The measure passed 220-215 and now moves on to the Senate. Davis said it begins to...

House Democrats Get One GOP Vote
Rep. Anh Joseph Cao, who hails from a heavily Democratic district in Louisiana, breaks ranks with his GOP colleagues -- the only Republican member to do so -- and votes yes on House legislation aimed at overhauling Health Care.

The Insurgent Welfare Plan, Af/Pak Edition: PHOTO
One of the strange contradictions that we’ve seen in our Afghanistan and Iraq policy is that

November 8: Top 8 Moments from Sunday Talk
Joe Lieberman is ready to Filibuster, Michael Steele almost gets physical, and Rachel Maddow says a magic troop number won’t placate the GOP. That and more in our Sunday roundup.

Sam Donaldson: If GOP Follows Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck It's Doomed: PHOTO
" If the Republican Party follows the course of Palin and Beck and Company it's doomed ." So said Sam Donaldson on ABC's "This Week" Sunday. His evidence? Democrat Bill Owens victory Tuesday in the 23rd Congressional district of New York. Readers are strongly advised to stow all fluids, combustibles, and sharp objects for the ignorance on display here might produce uncontrollable fits of anger (video embedded below the fold with partial transcript): Story Continues Below Ad...

Palin returns to 'death panels'
Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin is doubling down on her warning about so-called “death panels” that may emerge from the heath care bill the House passed Saturday night. “We had been told there were no ‘death panels’ in the bill,” Palin wrote in a note on her Facebook page soon after the bill's passage. “But look closely at the provision mandating bureaucratic panels that will be calling the shots regarding who will receive government health...

Cao jolts House
Once a year, Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao gives the Washington establishment a little jolt . In November 2008, the nationally unknown Vietnamese community activist captured a seat for Republicans in majority-black New Orleans, becoming an instant — albeit short-lived — celebrity for the GOP. On Saturday night, 368 days later, he handed Democrats their only Republican vote on the centerpiece of their domestic agenda, a massive overhaul of the nation’s Health Care system...

Abortion Politics
Ann Friedman quotes Pilgrim Soul on the passage last night of Bart Stupak's appalling amendment to prevent anyone receiving a federal subsidy from buying a Health Insurance plan that covers Abortions: Charmingly I expect that in the next few days all your liberal dude friends will be trying to explain to you that this is really no big deal, look, they had to get the Republicans/"Democrats" onboard SOMEHOW, this is just a battle but we won the war, etc etc. God knows we liberal dudes...