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It’s more than two years ahead of the 2012 presidential vote, but a new Zogby International survey conducted for The O’Leary Report has found a clear majority of independents think it’s time for somebody new in the Oval office. The Zogby survey was conducted June 25-28 with interviews of 2,061 registered voters. The survey has a 2.2 percent margin of error. When asked if they think President Obama should be re-elected or is it time for somebody new in the White House, 50 percent of the respondents overall said they want somebody else as chief executive. Obama should get a...

Welcome to the world of "hope" and "change." Congressional Democrats are now lashing out at corporations that have the audacity to point out the massive costs that ObamaCare is going to inflict on them and are now summoning them to testify before Congress. Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak today announced that the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing on April 21, 2010, regarding claims by Caterpillar, Verizon, and Deere that provisions in the new health care reform law could adversely affect their company's ability to provide health insurance to their employees. These assertions...

Chris Matthews is beginning to realize that Barack Obama can't change things with just the power of his personality. Such was amazingly discussed during the syndicated talk show bearing his name this weekend as two White House correspondents made some astonishing claims about the current resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. "He feels that he has some ability to bring people together," noted NBC's Savannah Guthrie. Helene Cooper of the New York Times agreed, "There's this fundamental belief that he can change, that the power of his personality and the power of his oratory can change people... But you can't just...

Voters are souring on the economy and the government’s remedies, according to February's IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index. It fell 4.1% to 46.8, matching December’s level and the weakest since July. “Persisting high unemployment and a wobbly stock market dampened January’s optimism,” said Raghavan Mayur, president of TIPP, IBD’s polling partner. Readings below 50 signal pessimism. Confidence in federal economic politics dived 7% to 38.3, the lowest since President Obama took office.

White House adviser: Obama has brought 'enormous change' Posted: January 24th, 2010 11:29 AM ET Washington (CNN) - The White House rejected criticism Sunday that President Barack Obama has not delivered on his promise of "change" during his first year in office. White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said the president has brought about "enormous change." "I think what we've seen is a dramatic difference in terms of how the United States is perceived around the world," Jarrett told NBC's "Meet the Press," on the final Sunday before the president's State of the Union address. Obama's travels have established relationships...

Forces of change now target Obama By: Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin and John F. Harris January 20, 2010 01:59 AM EST BOSTON — Republican Scott Brown’s eye-opening victory in Massachusetts Tuesday has unmistakably framed the problem for President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party: The same forces of disgust with establishment politicians and hunger for change in Washington that vaulted Obama to power 14 months ago can be harnessed with equal success by people who want to stop his agenda in its tracks. The argument that will now consume Democrats is over the remedy—a disagreement that once again opens...

Here is video of Ed Schultz talking to longtime Democrat consultant Bob Shrum and NBC reporter Kelly O'Donnell about the chances of Scott Brown winning the Massachusetts Senate Race on Tuesday. You can tell from their tone and their faces that the Democrats are truly terrified at the prospect of losing "Ted Kennedy's" Senate Seat. Schultz said it is "an unbelievable scenario" that may be playing out in Massachusetts, that it could be that Health Care Reform will be derailed by the vote from "Ted Kennedy's Senate Seat." Schultz flatly said (2:05 mark of the video): "If the Tea Party...

The Senate on Tuesday shot down a Republican measure that would have frozen federal spending at 2008 levels for the current fiscal year, preferring to stick with an omnibus package that increases spending by about 8 percent. Sen. Barbara Boxer, California Democrat, said during the debate that the spending-freeze amendment would have been the same as "looking backward, going in reverse. It doesn't make sense." Democrats said higher sending was vital to responding to the economic crisis. The amendment, which Sen. John McCain offered to replace the $410 billion omnibus bill that would fund most of the government until the...

Seoul, South Korea - North Korea stepped up its war rhetoric Thursday, saying its troops are "fully ready" for war with South Korea, just hours before a visit to Seoul by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The North's military accused South Korean President Lee Myung-bak of using "nonexistent" nuclear and missile threats as a pretext for an invasion and warned it was prepared for an "all-out confrontation."

After only a month in office, President Barack Obama has bumped up against the realities of war-and-peace decisions that face any American president. The president's order not to withdraw from Afghanistan but to get further into it shows that there are limits to the liberalism he has espoused, even though he foreshadowed this move during his election campaign. He is not the first US president to come into office promising change and then finding that more of the same is part of the policy mix. The Carter experience Jimmy Carter proclaimed an "ethical" foreign policy but then ran into the...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today sent a letter to the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) urging her to postpone a vote on legislation to delay the transition to digital television until the impact of a reported conflict of interest from an advisor to President Obama is fully known and disclosed. “The policy recommendations made by President Obama may have been influenced by an individual with a conflict of interest of which he may not have been aware,” the letter states. “Any improper influences on the President’s policy positions that...

Where's the hope? Like the little old lady in the Wendy's commercials from the 1980's, voters who supported Barack Hussein Obama in his bid for "hope" and "change" last year would be justified in asking that question. The rest of us are starting to.....