Obama '08?

Striking Similarity of tactics by lefties here, folks!

"Chavez Calls Attack on Opposition TV Station 'Anarchist'"

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537000,00.html?test=latestnews

"DNC: GOP 'inciting angry mobs' of 'rabid right wing extremists'"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2308299/posts?page=134

Let me get this right, when Obama tells organizations like ACORN, that are partially funded by taxpayer dollar, a pseudo Democratic Party organization,

when he tells them to get into people's faces, it isn't an angry mob, but when everyday citizens gathering at a town meeting to demand answers, that is an angry mob?

Besides that some of these meetings are Democratic meetings, with Democrats asking questions.

These are virtually all good citizens that pay their taxes that are wanting some answers about what is trying to be ramrodded down their throats, and I sympathize with them.

Striking Similarity of tactics by lefties here, folks!

"Chavez Calls Attack on Opposition TV Station 'Anarchist'"

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537000,00.html?test=latestnews

"DNC: GOP 'inciting angry mobs' of 'rabid right wing extremists'"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2308299/posts?page=134

We are mad that a Chicago street thug styled politician wants to govern the entire country in the same way.

What we citizens are mad about is . . . .

IMPEACH OBAMA

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/08/cornyn-to-white-house-quit-col.html

"Sen. John Cornyn, accusing the White House of compiling an "enemies list" on health care, is asking President Barack Obama to cease a new program to have Americans send "fishy" information on health care to the White House."

Difference: Obama is not looking for terrorists, he is looking for anyone that opposes his agenda. The man is turning out to be one bad apple. The sooner we sweep some of these people out of office, the better.

Obama is not looking for terrorists; he's just bombing the **** out of the locations in Pakistan and Afghanistan where our military leaders think they are hiding.

Nearly 54 percent of the Blue Dog PAC’s haul this year comes from the energy, financial services and health care industries, up from 45 percent in 2004, according to analysis of CQ MoneyLine data by the Center for Public Integrity.


These contributions poured in as President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress have been making a major push to reform health care, develop a new energy policy and restructure oversight of the banking sector.


Clearly, these Dogs are having their day.


The Power of the PAC


As individuals, the 52 Blue Dogs have received the plurality of their 2009 campaign contributions from a traditional Democratic ally: organized labor. Labor political action committees have filled the Blue Dog campaign coffers with more than $1 million so far this cycle.


But it’s the Blue Dog PAC that reveals the most about how the coalition operates. As Blue Dog clout has expanded, fundraising has grown accordingly " and not just from traditionally Democratic contributors.


In the 2008 election cycle, as fundraising for the National Republican Congressional Committee declined by roughly one-third from 2006 and fundraising for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee grew by just 26 percent, the Blue Dog PAC more than doubled its take (from $1,239,516 to $2,636,273).


And it raised more than $47,000 per Blue Dog from other political action committees " more than twice the $22,000-per-member total from the 2004 cycle.


Some of that cash came from interests that aren’t necessarily in sync with labor or even with traditional Democratic constituencies. In just the first half of 2009, all told the Blue Dog PAC took in $1,058,750 in contributions from other PACs, including health care PACs, which have already kicked in $297,500; energy PACs, $162,500; and financial services PACs, $134,500.

New poll numbers from NBC/Wall Street Journal produce two major and potentially conflicting story lines when it comes to the Obama administration's efforts for a health care overhaul. On the one hand, the American public overwhelmingly favors a choice between getting insurance coverage either through the private market or a government run option. Indeed, 76 percent of respondents said it was either "extremely" or "quite" important to "give people a choice of both a public plan administered by the federal government and a private plan for their health insurance."

With the public option being such a lightning rod in the current health care debate, progressive activists are already emailing around these numbers as evidence that voters are way ahead of the politicians. Certainly, the findings provide a boost of sorts to President Obama, who has stood by the public plan even as Republican opposition has crystallized.

That said, the president still has his work cut out for him. In the same NBC/WSJ poll, only 33 percent of respondents said they thought the president's health care plan, to the extent they knew of it, was a "good idea;" 32 percent said it was a bad idea.