Stimulus Support

Congress needs to pay attention. Americans still think the idea of a stimulus is a good one. We don't need to throw the proverbial baby out with the bath water and try to reinvent the plan.

It's not just Gallup

We talked earlier about the new Gallup poll, which shows widespread support for President Obama's handling of the stimulus-bill effort, and opposition to the conduct of congressional Republicans. As it turns out, a new CNN poll [...]

Surprised?

Nah.  How could you be?  Especially when the stock market took another 500 point hit today. It's absolutely appalling how poorly this entire thing has been handled. By the way, I'm not the only one thinking that way.

Americans’ satisfaction drops to all-time low of 9 percent.

A new Gallup poll finds that just nine percent of the American public are “satisfied with the way things are going in the United States — the lowest such reading in Gallup Poll history. … The previous low point for Gallup’s measure of satisfaction had been 12%, recorded back in 1979, in the midst of [...]