Below The Beltway

Someone in Minnesota is running the billboard pictured above.
Umm, I think it’s pretty clear the answer is no.
This is the same guy who increased non-defense discretionary spending at a faster pace than Lyndon Johnson, gave us the biggest increase in the welfare state in 40 years, increased federal intrusion into local [...]

The National Debt on the day Barack Obama took office:

The National Debt as of yesterday, the end of Barack Obama’s first year in office:

That’s an increase of $ 1,695,230,543,439.88 , or 15.95% in just one year.
By contrast, George W. Bush, who I have raked over the coals in the past for the fact that he [...]

One of these days Republicans are going to be back in power. Unless they understand why things went so wrong during the 2000-2006 period they will just make the same mistakes. I think it’s essential to the future success of conservatism that there be a full accounting of the failures of the Bush years.
— Bruce [...]

The Cato Institute’s David Boaz hits former President Bush for his recent comments that America must resist the “temptation” to allow the government to take over the private sector,
Um, what? The president who
* expanded federal spending by more than a trillion dollars a year, before his disastrous last hundred days
* federalized education
* laid out “a [...]

Former President George W. Bush spoke in Texas yesterday:
Former President George W. Bush on Thursday warned that Washington is in danger of taking the country away from free-market principles in the wake of the recession, as he defended his decision to approve a Wall Street bailout package in the final months of his term.
The former [...]

After one-year the record of the Obama Administration overseas isn’t that much different from his predecessor:

Meet the new President, same as the old President:
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder says a lawsuit in San Francisco over warrantless wiretapping threatens to expose ongoing intelligence work and must be thrown out.
In making the argument, the Obama administration agreed with the Bush administration’s position on the case but insists it came to the [...]

Well, you can’t really call this a biased poll can you:
Here’s a somewhat surprising result from the new Fox News poll. Asked which president is “more responsible for the current state of the economy,” only 18 percent say President Obama. Fifty-eight percent say former President George W. Bush. Nine percent blame both of them. Republicans [...]

Not surprisingly, the Republican brand is still pretty unpopular among voters:
WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Republican Party’s favorable rating among Americans is at lowest level in at least a decade, according to a new national poll.
Thirty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they have a favorable opinion of the [...]

Another poll that doesn’t really mean much at this point shows Barack Obama leading all of the potential Republican candidates in 2012:
Almost a year after his election as President, Barack Obama continues to lead his most likely 2012 rivals in hypothetical contests for reelection.
Obama leads Mike Huckabee 47-43, Mitt Romney 48-40, Sarah Palin 52-40, and [...]