100 days of opposition to Obama

9 comments April 29th, 2009

 In a post earlier today (HERE), I showed you a collection of anti-Obama clips from Fox News over the past 100 days.

 Here’s more such stuff from various sources:

Ten achievements by Obama you hadn’t noticed

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 From health care to transportation, from urban policy to the environment, the Obama administration has ACCOMPLISHED MORE in its first 100 days than even most of its supporters realize.

Fox News is an alternate universe

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 President Obama has remained consistently popular among the American people through his first 100 days in office and now enjoys the approval of about two-thirds of the populace.

 But you’d never know it by watching this kind of coverage from Fox News over those same 100 days:

Swine flu public service announcements of 1976

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Whistling past the graveyard

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 Neoconservative pundit Bill Kristol counterintuitively ARGUES that Arlen Specter’s switch to the Democratic Party actually is good for the GOP.

 (Check out the comments at the bottom of Kristol’s piece.)

 POSTSCRIPT: On the other hand, former Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee says the GOP won’t remain a viable national party if it continues its move to the far right:

DNC marks Obama’s first 100 days in the White House with a 1-minute TV ad

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TPM does the (flu/Specter) day in 100 seconds

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Figure out this poll for yourselves

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 For a change of pace, I’ve decided to pass along the results of a new Wall Street Journal/NBC political poll — without including any interpretation, analysis or characterization of the numbers.

 If you’re like me, you’ll enjoy plowing through the 27 pages of THIS REPORT to assess on your own what they say about President Obama, the Congress, the parties and certain issues.

 Let me know your take on this stuff.

Some wingnuts don’t understand that Stephen Colbert is mocking them

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 I don’t know if I should be surprised about this or not:

 A serious ACADEMIC STUDY conducted at Ohio State University shows that some conservatives believe that political comedian Stephen Colbert genuinely means what he says when he mouths right-wing rhetoric on his TV show.

 Such stupidity is reminiscent of the people in the early 1970s who actually didn’t understand that Archie Bunker was intended to be an object of ridicule.

 UPDATE: Speaking of dimwitted conservatives, Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is steadily carving out a reputation for herself as a world-class non compos mentis.

 She’s forever spewing nonsense about evil liberal schemes or historical parallels that are meaningful only to her and the (hopefully) few people who take her seriously.

 Bachmann’s latest lunacy is her SUGGESTION that flu-epidemic scares might be a sinister plot by Democrats.

Somebody throw a net over her, please.

Arlen Specter switching parties!

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 Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania is SWITCHING HIS PARTY AFFILIATION from Republican to Democratic, a move that will give Democrats a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate (once Al Franken is seated).

 UPDATE: Here’s Specter’s STATEMENT.

 UPDATE II: Paul Krugman REACTS.

 UPDATE III: Republican National Chairman Michael Steele REACTS.

 UPDATE IV: Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe SAYS Specter’s switch is a “devastating” blow to her party. She worries that the GOP has “abandoned” its core principles.

 UPDATE V: Nate Silver offers an INTERESTING ARGUMENT that Specter’s switch is “bad news for the Republican Party more than it is good news for the Democrats.” (Be sure to click on Silver’s link to his piece on the GOP’s “death spiral.”)