“I want you to hold our government accountable. I want you to hold me accountable.” — Barack Obama “Okay, we will.” — PolitiFact Tracking Obama’s promises 55 Promise Kept 14 Compromise 7 Promise Broken 17 Stalled 160 In the Works 262 Not yet rated PolitiFact will be tracking Barack Obama’s promises during his presidency and will [...]
Archive for November, 2009
30 Nov
Tell Me Once Again Why My Tax Dollars Are Funding a War in IRAQ… Oh That’sRight, Sadam Was An Immanent Threat!
Iran vows to expand its nuclear program 10 uranium-enrichment sites announced after international rebuke Ahmadinejad said construction on some facilities will begin soon. (Eraldo Peres/associated Press) By Thomas Erdbrink Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, November 30, 2009 TEHRAN — Iran’s government will build 10 new sites to enrich uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday, [...]
30 Nov
This Is George Bush’s Recession: Why Doesn’t Anybody Talk About That?
By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted November 30, 2009. If the partisan tables were turned, the GOP would waste no time laying the blame on Democrats. We need to do the same to build political capital for key fights ahead. In October, Barack Obama told a San Francisco audience about what it was like trying to [...]
29 Nov
Iran, Defiant, Approves Plan for 10 Enrichment Sites
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: November 29, 2009 Filed at 3:54 p.m. ET TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran approved plans Sunday to build 10 industrial scale uranium enrichment facilities, a dramatic expansion of the program in defiance of U.N. demands it halt enrichment and a move that is likely to significantly heighten tensions with the [...]
29 Nov
Statement on Obama’s Upcoming Decision on Afghanistan
National Security Strategy November 25, 2009 The Obama administration will soon release its much anticipated strategy on Afghanistan. Congress must subject this plan to comprehensive oversight and scrutiny in order to ensure the United States has a clear and comprehensive plan for advancing stability in Afghanistan and the broader region. Before it approves any additional [...]
29 Nov
Democrats in Revolt Over Obama’s Troop Surge
Published on Sunday, November 29, 2009 by The Times Online/UK by Christina Lamb in Washington Barack Obama’s much-vaunted eloquence faces the biggest test of his presidential career this week when he takes to the stage at West Point military academy to explain to a nation that thought it had elected an anti-war president why he [...]
29 Nov
Why the GOP Will Face an Uphill Battle Making Large Gains in 2010
Posted by Kos , Daily Kos at 3:01 PM on November 27, 2009. In addition to the demographics, Bush’s legacy, Americans’ continued distrust of the party on the issues, etc. Massive Democratic gains in 2006 and 2008 were fueled in part by Democratic advantages in committee fundraising. While Bush’s RNC handily outraised its Democratic counterparts [...]
27 Nov
God Help Us! — (And here I thought Sarah Palin was a bad choice…)
Draft Dick Cheney: A committee is born The Swamp 11/27/09 9:30 AM by Mark Silva Here’s a conversation starter: “Draft Dick Cheney.” An admirer of the former vice president filed papers today in Washington for a committee with a goal of getting Cheney to run for president in 2012. “ “The 2012 race for the [...]
27 Nov
Obama’s Top 25 Promises
Obama’s Top 25 Promises: A Progress Report By Angie Drobnic Holan Published on Friday, November 27th, 2009 at 5:58 p.m. We’re steadily updating our Obameter database and have rated lots of promises In the Works. When we launched the Obameter — an online database of Obama’s 515 campaign promises — we designated 25 promises as [...]
27 Nov
Schultz says health care bill will only tax top 2 percent
“Ninety-eight percent of the American people will not see their taxes go up” due to the House health care bill. Ed Schultz on Friday, November 20th, 2009 in MSNBC’s the ‘Ed Show’ Bookmark this story: Republicans have frequently criticized the Democrats’ health care bills by saying that they will make Americans pay more. On Nov. [...]
24 Nov
Key Provisions of the Senate Health Care Reform Bil
The “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” H.R. 3590 By Deborah White, About.com This article summarizes key provisions in the U.S. Senate health care bill, “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” H.R. 3590, which was unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on November 18, 2009 after the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office concluded that the bill: [...]
24 Nov
Your waste, my care
By Eugene Robinson Tuesday, November 24, 2009 The uproar over the on-again, off-again guidelines on when women should have mammograms is proof of the blindingly obvious: Health-care reform that actually controls costs — rather than just pretending to do so — would be virtually impossible to achieve. I say “would be” because none of the [...]
