Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota) delivered the Republicans' weekly address today centering on President Barack Obama's compulsive campaigning versus doing his actual job. "The president should spend less time campaigning to save the jobs of Democrats in Congress and more time trying to create jobs for the American people," said the potential 2012 presidential candidate. Ordinarily I'd disagree with the idea that the President of the United States can/should create jobs, but this particular president kept promising he would and therefore deserves to be judged on his failure to keep those promises.

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Is no Congress at all better than the one we'll have between Election Day and the swearing in of the winners? According to a resolution offered today by Republican Study Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Georgia), the answer is most definitely yes. The resolution calls on Congress not to hold a so-called lame duck session to pass unpopular legislation such as card check, cap & trade, tax increases and more deficit spending bills.

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President Obama's attempt to use the oil spill in the Gulf to push for cap & trade legislation doesn't seem to be working. According to one sponsor of the energy, bill the inclusion of the job killing, energy cost raising scheme is keeping the legislation far below the 60 vote threshold needed for it to pass in the Senate. But that won't stop either of them from following the 'never let a crisis go to waste' philosophy.

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A senior yet unnamed Obama administration official has provided the media with the five talking points to be included in the president's Oval Office speech on Tuesday. The speech, advertised yesterday by White House adviser David Axelrod as one that will lay out the government's steps to cope with the oil spill in the Gulf, is sounding more like a typical Obama speech designed to lay the groundwork for the advancement of his far-left agenda.

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President Barack Obama's approval rating has dropped to an all-time low of 44% according to the latest Quinnipiac Poll released this morning. (source) But even though his numbers have dropped since signing his unpopular health care reform bill and the political future of his policy looks bleak, the president and his accomplices plan to push ahead with the far-left agenda the American people obviously do not want.

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