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...

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...

Obama to meet Netanyahu at White House Monday
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House announced Sunday that President Barack Obama will be meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu during the Israeli prime minister's trip to Washington, ending days of uncertainty.

Obama, Netanyahu to meet, prospects for breakthrough nil
The meeting between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on November 9 is likely to further infuriate the Palestinians. The Palestinians are already frustrated with Obama's shift in policy to allow expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, labeled by many countries as illegal. The Palestinians say Israel has deeply encroached into land the Palestinians claim for a future state. Recently, a top advisor to Palestinian Authority caretaker Prime Minister...

Obama Refuses to call Hood What It Was
Obama Refuses to call Hood What It Was

Voter Anger Opens A Door For GOP's Lazio
The wave of voter anger aimed at incumbents in last Tuesday's off-year Elections is just what an against-all-odds campaign in New York's Governor's race needed. Two weeks ago, Republican candidate Rick Lazio was quietly running an uphill campaign for the 2010 race. He faced a rising Democratic wave in New York, with every statewide office held by Democrats, rising party enrollment and a Democrat in The White House. Lazio even called his effort "the little engine that could." But the...

Independents turned to GOP in elections, poll says
But Tuesday's vote in congressional race in New York exposed ideological debate within Republican Party.

Obama, Netanyahu to meet Monday, White House says
President Obama will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at The White House on Monday evening after a rough stretch in U.S. efforts to settle the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Obama may make decision to send 34K more troops to Af-Pak soon: PHOTO
It’s been three months since General Stanley McChrystal informed the Obama Administration of the resources he needs to successfully prosecute the war.

Domino gives Bogdanoff a pass on ties to Rothstein
State Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale, has been one of the legislature's top recipients of campaign cash from accused Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein. Her 2010 GOP state Senate primary rival, Rep. Carl Domino of Jupiter, appears to have conducte

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...

Minnesota poised to get major federal education grant
Minnesota educators think the state has a good chance to receive a chunk of some $4.35 billion in Grants that the Obama Administration plans to give to states to promote school innovation. The "Race to the Top" Grants are part of the federal Stimulus package passed by Congress this spring. States compete against each other for the money, and experts say Minnesota's history as an education reformer that gets results means the state could win part of the pot of money. "This could...

So the stimulus didn't keep unemployment to 8%: PHOTO
My chart this week: Unemployment vs expectations once the $787 billion Obama Stimulus plan was implemented. Can’t blame this on W. anymore. The Stimulus and Unemployment

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...

Failure in Afghanistan a 'disaster'
Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth said the country needed to "show some resolution" as Opinion Polls indicated public support for the mission was waning in the face of continuing heavy losses. Shadow foreign secretary William Hague admitted the Conservatives were "very worried" about the prospect of having to take over such a difficult situation in Afghanistan if they came to power in an election next year. The head of the armed forces, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup,...

AFP: Sunni concerns see Iraq MPs fail to agree 2010 election law
Baghdad — Concerns from Iraq's Sunni bloc on Saturday saw MPs fail again to agree a law for next year's general election, fuelling doubts that the vote will go ahead on January 16 as planned. The election is viewed crucial to consolidating Iraq's fledgling Democracy ahead of a withdrawal of US combat Troops by August next year and a complete pullout of American forces by the end of 2011. A request from Sunni MPs for more time to study provisions governing the vote in Kirkuk, a disputed...

Obama Political Arm Says GOP House Members Caved to Insurance Lobby Pressure
President Obama's message to supporters on the "Organizing for America" email list may have been positive (if financially solicitous), (link to earlier blog today) but the director of his political arm was under no such apparent guidance.‬‪ ‬‪

New Pics! First Family Returns to White House: PHOTO
“The Insider” has the latest First Family photos!   President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama walked with their two daughters Malia and Sasha down the lawn of The White House after returning from a night at Camp David. [Read full story on The Insider] Go here to see the original:

Gorbachev urges US to withdraw from Afghanistan
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has urged the United States to withdraw all its Military forces from Afghanistan. Gorbachev told CNN in an interview on Sunday that "withdrawal from Afghanistan should be the goal." The Soviet Union's last leader also advised US President Barack Obama against sending additional Troops to Afghanistan. "I think that what's needed is not additional forces." He made the remarks as Washington mulls sending as many as 40,000 additional Troops to Afghanistan....

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...

Both Obama, Republicans Get Lower Marks on Working Together
Now that we know the Senate's Health Care bill was approved in committee with just one Republican vote and with just one Republican joining Democrats in voting for House passage yesterday, it's worth looking again at what marks the public gives President Obama and congressional Republicans for working together ( not ).

House health care bill has nowhere to go in Senate
WASHINGTON – The glow from a Health Care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama today as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.

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...

Could The Senate Be A Dead End For Pelosicare?: PHOTO
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Health Care Bill Passes House, Goes To Senate
Seen as a major victory for the Obama Administration, a Health Care reform plan has cleared a major hurdle, passing the U.S. House of Representatives. The vote, for the most part, was along party lines.