After months upon months of enthusiastic, cheer-leading coverage of any rally that involved tea, tea bagging or tea partying, the Fox News network has miraculously disproved itself by producing a new poll that finds Americans think more highly of the Internal Revenue Service than they do the vocal conservative minority.
Atop the fourth page of a Fox News Opinion Dynamics poll released April 8, the questioner explains that respondents would be read a series of names and asked whether their opinion is positive or not. The most popular among the names is Barack Obama, who scored a 50 percent approval rating. Second was the Internal Revenue Service, at 49 percent.....
Then there is this ---
Amazing. What qualified Boehner for such a monumental approval rating? Was it his arrogance? Lack of leadership? Lack of formulating any meaningful legislation? His ability to speak only "NO!" to progress?
*** Republican candidate for Ohio Attorney General, Mike DeWine, has expressed his desire to sue the federal government over the new health care reform law. DeWine is ready to waste taxpayer money on a completely frivolous lawsuit. Current Attorney General, Richard Cordray, a Democrat, has stated that DeWine's plan to sue the federal government is nothing but a waste of time and money. Check out the Newark Advocate for the full text of Cordray's comments on why pursuing this lawsuit is wrong on many levels.
My own suggestion is that Mike DeWine should go back to law school and take some classes on constitutional law.
* Another bit of news caught Republicans by surprise.
Dispatch:
After Attorney General Richard Cordray announced a $9 million settlement with an insurance company Wednesday, the Ohio Republican Party questioned whether the deal was a bonanza for private lawyers whom Cordray and his predecessor had hired to work on the case.
Only one problem: There were no private lawyers on the case....
The Republicans, and Kevin DeWine, need to stop jumping to conclusions.*** Now that Mitt Romney is clearly supporting Republican congressional candidate Steve Stivers, I wonder if Stivers has seen a backlash. Romney, a flip flopper and dog abuser, is not loved in all corners of the GOP.
YahooNews:
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a potential presidential candidate in 2012, called Barack Obama on Thursday "the most radical president in American history" who oversees a "secular, socialist machine."...
I'm not surprised. Gingrich, who has been married three times and resigned his leadership position in disgrace, is not a person I would call upon for advice or honesty.
dKosopedia:
...Gingrich, preacher of personal responsibility, honesty, and ethics, used tax-exempt foundations for political purposes in violation of House Rules. To his credit, Gingrich admitted his guilt, and was fined $300,000 by the House Ethics Committee.
Gingrich, critic of the president's infidelity and preacher of family values, was also carrying on an affair with a much younger congressional employee who reported to him. Gingrich served his first wife (Jackie Battley, his high school math teacher) with divorce papers while she was in the hospital with cancer, and split with his second wife (Marianne Ginther) over the phone on Mother's Day, soon after learning that she had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
Gingrich has admitted that he was having an extra-marital affair while he was condemning President Clinton for infidelity...Nicely put.
Kasichfacts:
Kasich Voted to Support Permanent Free Trade Status for China, Which Cost Ohio Over 91,000 Jobs. In 2000, Kasich voted for normalizing trade relations with China, paving the way for China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. Since then, Ohio has lost 91,800 jobs as the trade deficit with China has increased. [HR 4444, Vote #228, 5/24/00; Dallas Morning News, 5/25/00; Economic Policy Institute, 5/23/10; Akron Beacon Journal, 3/24/10; Chicago Tribune, 5/25/00.]
Kasich Voted To Approve, Expand NAFTA. In 1993, Kasich voted for NAFTA. Then in 1997, Kasich voted for the US-Caribbean Trade Partnership Act, which would provide free trade benefits to Caribbean and Central American countries similar to those provided to Mexico under NAFTA. From 1993 to 2004 alone, Ohio lost 49,886 jobs, making it the state with the fifth-highest amount of job losses over that time period. [HR 3450, Vote #575, 11/17/1993; HR 2644, Vote #570, 11/4/1997; Washington Times, 4/15/99; Economic Policy Institute, 7/20/05, 9/28/06]...
Kasich Voted Against Helping American Industry Compete. In 1993, Kasich voted against the National Competitiveness Act, which would have authorized $1.5 billion over two years for various grant, loan and technical aid programs for U.S. industry. [HR 820, Vote #173, 5/19/1993; Washington Times, 5/23/93]...