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Poll: 69 Percent of Women Disagree with Mammogram Ruling

A Gallup/USA Today poll shows that 69 percent of women disagree with a death panel U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation to delay mammograms until the age of 50. Democrats have been trying their best to do damage control, but as The ...

From JOHN MCCORMACK, The Weekly Standard,  24 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Gallup,  USA Today,  U.S. Senate

Rasmussen: Obama Approval Hits Low of 45%

Overall, 45% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. That matches the lowest level of total approval yet measured for this president. Eighty-one percent (81%) of Democrats approve as do 33% of unaffiliated voters. ...

From JOHN MCCORMACK, The Weekly Standard,  24 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  White House,  U.S. Republican Party,  Gallup

Happy Hour Links

Rich Lowry: Democrats have "talked themselves into the ludicrously self-delusional notion that what ails them and the president is that they haven't yet passed the hundreds of billions of dollars of tax hikes and Medicare cuts that finance (albeit ...

From JOHN MCCORMACK, The Weekly Standard,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Rich Lowry,  U.S. Democratic Party

'I Am Noticing that Each of Your Plans to Save Money Involves Spending Even More Money'

Via Hot Air, Saturday Night Live had a remarkable opening sketch this weekend that took aim at Obama's policies from the right and was actually funny. In a press conference between Obama and Hu Jintao, the Chinese leader inquires about whether the U.S. ...

From JOHN MCCORMACK, The Weekly Standard,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hu Jintao

Chart: The Real 10 Year Cost of Reid's Health Care Bill Is $1.8 Trillion

Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats claim that the cost of the Senate's health care bill is $849 billion over the first ten years. But, as Jeffrey Anderson pointed out in the New York Post on Friday, they get this figure by using "the same accounting ...

From JOHN MCCORMACK, The Weekly Standard,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Harry Reid,  U.S. Democratic Party,  New York Post

Nelson to Vote Yes, Landrieu & Lincoln Still Undeclared on Saturday Night Vote

Senator Ben Nelson announced today that he will vote yes on the motion to proceed Saturday night. Politico reports two Democrats remain undeclared: "A few moments ago, Sen. Dick Durbin walked back a statement he made earlier today that Sen. Blanche ...

From JOHN MCCORMACK, The Weekly Standard,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Blanche Lincoln,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Dick Durbin,  Harry Reid,  Mary Landrieu

House Republicans Try to Force Vote on the "Keep Terrorists Out of America Act"

U.S. House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-CA) today joined with the senior Republicans of the Judiciary, Intelligence and Homeland Security Committees, and Appropriations Commerce, Justice and Science Subcommittee ...

From JOHN MCCORMACK, The Weekly Standard,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,  CA Inc.,  Frank Wolf,  Barack Obama

"Several Democrats" Called for Military Tribunal for Moussaoui in 2001

Earlier today, Dick Durbin argued no one complained about Zacarias Moussaoui's trial in civilian court. In fact, as a friend on the Hill points out, "several Democrats" said the 20th hijacker should have been tried in a military tribunal: During the ...

From JOHN MCCORMACK, The Weekly Standard,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Senate Judiciary Committee,  Zacarias Moussaoui,  Dick Durbin,  U.S. Republican Party

CNN Poll: Americans Oppose Public Funding of Abortion 61% to 37%

A new CNN poll "indicates that 61 percent of the public opposes the use of public money for abortions for women who can not afford the procedure, with 37 percent in favor of allowing the use of federal funds." How much stronger must opposition to ...

From JOHN MCCORMACK, The Weekly Standard,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Byron Dorgan,  Blanche Lincoln,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Nancy Pelosi,  Planned Parenthood

Continetti: Can Sarah Palin Make a Comeback?

In Alaska, Ms. Palin didn't run as a culture warrior. She focused on issues with overwhelming public support: ethics reform, a revised oil tax, and more competition and transparency in the effort to build a natural gas pipeline. She took the ...

From JOHN MCCORMACK, The Weekly Standard,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  U.S. Democratic Party

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