It wasn’t very long ago that President Barack Obama was Presidential candidate Barack Obama, a freshman Senator running on a platform of change after eight disastrous years of George Bush. Last night’s Republican win in Massachusetts by Scott Brown, who will now take over Ted Kennedy’s vacated seat, showed that Republicans are not only planning on running on a platform of change but winning because of it.

With the country restless and angry over the Democrats’ utter incompetence when it has come to pushing through their agenda despite a massive majority in both the House and the Senate, ...continue reading]]>

It wasn’t very long ago that President Barack Obama was Presidential candidate Barack Obama, a freshman Senator running on a platform of change after eight disastrous years of George Bush. Last night’s Republican win in Massachusetts by Scott Brown, who will now take over Ted Kennedy’s vacated seat, showed that Republicans are not only planning on running on a platform of change but winning because of it.

With the country restless and angry over the Democrats’ utter incompetence when it has come to pushing through their agenda despite a massive majority in both the House and the Senate, the voters are now looking towards the “new Republicans,” better known as the “conservative” or “Tea Party” movement which they blindly think is any different from what this country had before Obama.

The truth is, the Democrats didn’t deserve to win in Massachusetts because Attorney General Martha Coakley ran a terrible campaign. The wealth of races that the Democrats are bound to lose in November will also be lost because those Democrats will run poor campaigns. Not because they are poor campaigners but because they have nothing to run on.

And so, exactly a year after Barack Obama took office, the winds of change have shifted and are now blowing against Obama, the new status quo.

One year in, the country has not closed Guantanamo, has not passed health care or climate change reform, has not stopped the economic bleeding, and has escalated the war in Afghanistan. Sound familiar?

Who Needs Facts Anyway?

All too often, partisanship in the United States grows to inexplicable proportions. A recent poll done by Public Policy Polling revealed that more than 50% of Republican voters believe that liberal non-profit group ACORN stole the election for Obama despite the fact that the President received more votes than any candidate in history and no voting irregularities involving ACORN registered voters have ever been reported.

While ACORN has been caught up in a scandal about what their group really does and employees registering fake voters because they are paid for every voter that they ...continue reading]]>

Who Needs Facts Anyway?

All too often, partisanship in the United States grows to inexplicable proportions. A recent poll done by Public Policy Polling revealed that more than 50% of Republican voters believe that liberal non-profit group ACORN stole the election for Obama despite the fact that the President received more votes than any candidate in history and no voting irregularities involving ACORN registered voters have ever been reported.

While ACORN has been caught up in a scandal about what their group really does and employees registering fake voters because they are paid for every voter that they sign up, none of these fake registrations have ever been used, despite years of digging by Republicans around the United States.

Still, led by blatant lies of right-wing pundits like Rush Limbaugh, only a meager 27% of Republican voters told PPP that they believe Obama won the election legitimately.

The results are said to be a response to eight-years of Democrats and independents arguing that Bush stole the 2000 and 2004 elections. The difference in the cases is that there is ample legal proof to show that the “voting irregularities” in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 were hardly accidental and favored George Bush.

Despite the obvious illegal actions by some ACORN employees, they have never purged tens of thousands of voters illegitimately and cost anyone the election. Even if they wanted to, Obama won the election with nearly twice as many electoral votes than McCain.