Archive for December 30th, 2009
Smalltown America’s growing voice of rage is a force to be reckoned with
In poorer, isolated towns the rightwing protest movement is flourishing. Republicans as well as Obama must take note
Some polling data to chew on from Rasmussen.
His total approve is 46% to
His total disapprove 53%
And on the hell care bill;
Just 40% of voters nationwide now favor it while 55% are opposed. Those figures are essentially unchanged from a week ago. This is the sixth straight week with support for the legislation between 38% and 41%.
A Ron Paul Moment
By Ben Stein
A few days ago, I was on Larry King Live on CNN. the topic was terrorism and specifically the Christmas Day aerial bombing effort by a self-described Al Qaeda agent of an airliner near Detroit.
One of the other guests was Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. He said, at least as I understood it — and I could be mistaken — that the real fault for this terror attack lies with the United States for provoking al Qaeda by “occupying their land” –this is a paraphrase. I expressed shock at this line of approach. Rep. Paul — as I recall — said again that the U.S. was causing these attacks by our being “occupiers.”