Bitch About Obama

by Michelle Malkin, Townhall

 Obama sells his message using kids as a shield

Have you noticed something about the audiences that President Obama has cherry-picked to cheer his government health care takeover roadshow? They’re getting younger and younger.

On Wednesday, Obama brings the traveling campaign to St. Charles High School in St. Louis, Mo., for a closed-door, invitation-only speech. If he doesn’t end the endless "No More Time For Talk" talks soon, he’ll be peddling Democratic reconciliation tactics on "Dora the Explorer" and "SpongeBob SquarePants."

But desperate times call for demagogic measures. True to form, the Obama White House is wielding the human kiddie shield as its last-stand defense for Demcare.

On Monday, Obama surrounded himself with a ticketed-only crowd of Arcadia University college students in Pennsylvania (sprinkled with purple-shirted officials from the Service Employees International Union, natch). The Washington-based commander in chief traveled outside his Beltway bubble to a campus bubble to trash the political climate, which he leads.

"That’s just how Washington is. They can’t help it," he pontificated as the idealistic young students nodded like empty bobbleheads. "They"?

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This is a rush transcript from “Glenn Beck,” March 9, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

GLENN BECK, HOST: Joining me now: Congressman Eric Massa. He is congressman from New York.

How are you, sir?

FORMER REP. ERIC MASSA, D-N.Y.:Good to be here. And I’m not a congressman anymore. Let’s be clear about it.

BECK: I think once a congressman, always a congressman. But —

MASSA: And can I just start off with something?

BECK: Sure.

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By John Kass

A naked, wet and angry Rahm Emanuel?

That’s the last image Americans need in our minds right now.

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By Jon Ward

Rep. George Miller, California Democrat and one of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s closest allies, was furiously working his cell phone and blackberry outside the Capitol around 1 p.m., as most House Democrats began a caucus meeting.

Amid reports that Pelosi has said she has the votes to pass a health care bill if they voted today, Miller appeared to be more uncertain about the prospects for that.

Asked if Democrats have the votes for a bill, Miller said, “I don’t know. I don’t know.”

“I’m doing this,” he said, motioning to his blackberry and shooing me away.

Miller’s comments only reinforce that the state of play remains, more than anything, uncertain, as we wrote this morning. Pelosi’s office told me basically the same thing, as they wait for reconciliation language and a CBO preliminary score, which they do not think will come today.

And here is our latest count of responses from the 38 House Dems who voted no in November.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/03/10/top-pelosi-deputy-doesnt-know-if-dems-have-votes-for-health-care/#ixzz0hoAH8dWa

By SCOTT RASMUSSEN AND DOUG SCHOEN, Wall Street Journal

 Obama is not persuading anyone

One of the more amazing aspects of the health-care debate is how steady public opinion has remained. Despite repeated and intense sales efforts by the president and his allies in Congress, most Americans consistently oppose the plan that has become the centerpiece of this legislative season.

In 15 consecutive Rasmussen Reports polls conducted over the past four months, the percentage of Americans that oppose the plan has stayed between 52% and 58%. The number in favor has held steady between 38% and 44%.

The dynamics of the numbers have remained constant as well. Democratic voters strongly support the plan while Republicans and unaffiliated voters oppose it. Senior citizens—the people who use the health-care system more than anybody else and who vote more than anybody else in midterm elections—are more opposed to the plan than younger voters. For every person who strongly favors it, two are strongly opposed.

Why can’t the president move the numbers? One reason may be that he keeps talking about details of the proposal while voters are looking at the issue in a broader context. Polling conducted earlier this week shows that 57% of voters believe that passage of the legislation would hurt the economy, while only 25% believe it would help. That makes sense in a nation where most voters believe that increases in government spending are bad for the economy.

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Rasmussen Reports

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 22% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President.

Forty-two percent (42%) of Democrats Strongly Approve while 72% of Republicans Strongly Disapprove. Among those not affiliated with either major political party, 17% Strongly Approve and 45% Strongly Disapprove.

Fifty-seven percent (57%) believe that passage of the proposed health care legislation will hurt the economy. Just 25% believe it will help.

Overall, 43% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. That, too matches the lowest level yet recorded for this President. Fifty-six percent (56%) disapprove.

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by: Maggie Kerkman

Right now, the fate of the social studies books your kids could be studying for the next decade is in the hands of just 15 people. They’re school board members in Texas. The curriculum standards they set – and are deciding on now– are often used by textbook publishers to make books for schools across the country. These books could end up in your child’s backpack in just a few years.

There have been a lot of media reports about what is actually in those standards. In addition to the media reports, you can also go straight to the source material to see what you think. It’s all online at the Texas Board of Education website. Check it out here:

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=3643

You will find the standards and the changes that have been made, by both the review committee and the board members. You can also watch Wednesday’s board meeting live online: http://www.texasadmin.com/cgi-bin/tea.cgi

Don’t like what you see? The Texas Education Agency is encouraging people to send board members their thoughts. You can email any one of the fifteen board members at: sboesupport@tea.state.tx.us or you can call and leave a message at 512-463-9007

By FoxNews.com

Former New York Rep. Eric Massa said sure he groped his male staff, but never sexually misbehaved, and he doesn’t think rough-play with other men is unusual, even at age 50.

But his aides sure seem to have a problem with it.

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By Simon Heffer

The race for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination has started, though the election itself is 32 months away. Even in a place so brash and up-front as the United States there is some subtlety, at least at this stage, about the process. Sarah Palin, beloved of much of middle America despite her limitations, is doing the equivalent of turning up at weddings and bar mitzvahs and, as we say in Britain, putting herself about. However Mitt Romney, the man deemed by America’s media to be the front runner, is (as his greater experience would seem to dictate) more sophisticated in his approach. He has written a book – No Apology – and is undertaking a 40-stop national tour to promote it. It looks astonishingly like an election campaign.

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