Politics: June 2009 Archives

Ace of Spades HQ: Change! Plurality In Rasmussen Poll Say Cancel The Rest Of The Stimulus Plan

45% say cancel the rest of the stimulus spending, but 55% say keep the tax cuts. The US has lost a million more jobs than the Obama administration predicted we would lose if we had done nothing at all.

Coburn's STD Lecture to Congressional Interns Put On Hold Due to Pizza Dispute

"Coburn spokesman John Hart said the 'safe-sex slide show' -- which Coburn, a practicing obstetrician, has given annually since 1997 -- is on hold pending a decision over who will buy the pie.... He said the Senate Ethics Committee has strict rules regarding outside groups, and that it 'would argue that that's an outside group increasing our office account inappropriately' -- a rule he said 'doesn't make much sense.'"

Britain's Labour Lessons For Obama | Newgeography.com

Joel Kotkin says the landslide defeat of Labour in local and European elections may mark "the decline of gentry liberalism." "Gentry liberalism - which reached its height in Britain earlier this decade and is currently peaking in the U.S. - melded traditional left-of-center constituencies, such as organized labor and ethnic minorities, with an expanding class of upper-class professionals from field like media, finance and technology."