I have to say, for all the flak Obama has taken throughout his presidency about not being tough enough, or about not playing enough hardball in the Washington political world, he gets a lot of things done. Health Care reform? The one that nobody could get through for decades? Through. Copenhagen Summit Agreement? Brokered. BP escrow account? Created. And now he is writing letters to China about their yuan currency and what he thinks should be done about it. He may walk softly and rely on diplomacy more than our previous president did, but there is no denying that he gets results on the things that he puts his mind and energy toward.

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How dare you apologize to BP!

As a politician of this country, you represent the people, not corporate interests. And guess what? The people are pissed. This is the worst environmental disaster in history to fall upon our country, and it is a direct result of the corporation that you got down on your knees and apologized for.

You might as well have flipped the rest of America the bird.

And now Republicans want YOU to head the whole Energy and Commerce Committee? I don’t think so!

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Democrat Representative Bart Stupak, a leader in the House Energy and Commerce Committee was not impressed with the rhetoric of BP CEO Tony Hayward during the CEO's testimony regarding the Gulf oil spill hearing.  Stupak characterized Hayward as "absurd and ridiculous," while being interviewed on CNN during "John King, USA."  He went on to say, "It was frustrating, not just to me but to the American people."  Hayward's testimony was hard to watch, that is for sure.  It seemed as though he was ill-prepared, didn't answer questions, and seemed to try with each sentence to limit his own fault.  Stupak, however, was really angered due to the fact that the committee had sent Hayward a letter outlining the questions that they wanted answers for, but it was all for not. 

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New York House Democrats know which side of the bread has the butter. They are standing up for Wall Street! Yes, big old bad wolf Wall Street.

New York Democrats put House and Senate conferees on notice that they are none to fond of Blanche Lincoln or Paul Volcker. HuffPost Hill reports that Congressman Gary Ackerman from New York said, that if Senator Lincoln's derivatives legislation remains in the final financial reform bill, and if the Volcker Rule is tightened too much, most of the New York Congressional Democrats will not support the bill. The Congressman said, "Those of us in New York represent not only Main Street, but Wall Street as well ..."

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Someone is sitting in South Carolina and laughing.  Who that is remains to be known, but it'll come out eventually.  Whoever is laughing in the person or persons involved in helping Alvin Greene win the Democratic Senate primary in South Carolina.  What makes it so odd is the fact that Greene is unemployed, had to come up with over $10,000 to get his name on the ballot, ran no apparent campaign, yet still came out the victor.  Something just isn't right.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn told CNN's Candy Crowley, "I saw the patterns in this.  I know a Democratic pattern. I know a Republican pattern and I saw in the Democratic primary elephant dung all over the place. And so I knew something was wrong in that primary. And this result tells us that.”

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This past Tuesday, California voters passed Proposition 14, that among other things will make it easier for rich people, with lots of money to spend, to get elected and will make it harder for grassroots candidates to gain footing. Well, it already is hard for truly grassroots candidates to gain a footing in California, and already is easy for the rich to win elections. Running state wide in California is so expensive, who else can afford to run, but the rich and Jerry Brown, who has been around so long that practically everybody in the state knows who he is.

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California Attorney General Jerry Brown and candidate for Governor has put out his first ad of the 2010 gubernatorial campaign. The message of the ad is, "While more than two million Californians are looking for work, Republicans Meg Whitman and Steven Poizner have spent more than $110 million attacking each other. More than 100,000 negative ads, it's more of the same old politics."

100K ads? Well, maybe it seem like that many ads.

Anyway, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner have spent a whole lot of money on the race, have both gone big time negative, and Mr. Brown points out that California needs negative thinking like it needs --Hell.

"Enough already!" is Mr Brown's theme. "Let's get California working again!"

Enough already with Republican negativism! That message needs to echo across the nation.

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U.S. Rep. Artur Davis maybe thought he was going to be the first African-American governor of Alabama, maybe thought that winning the state’s Democratic primary would be a cake walk, maybe thought he could turn his back on the people and principles that got him his US House seat, because he could, because folks would support him, because he was out to make history.

Well, as the Associated Press reports this morning, Mr Davis got swamped in the Democratic primary by Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks 62 percent to 38 percent, with 96 percent of the precincts reporting. The state’s traditional civil rights organizations backed Sparks after Davis voted against President Barack Obama’s federal health care overhaul. Mr. Sparks supported the positions popular with the state's Democrats, including supporting the federal health care plan.

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Sen. Harry Reid

Yesterday, reports on the progress of the financial reform bill went like this: "Senators on Wednesday narrowly rejected a key vote to end the debate on a sweeping bank reform bill that would have set the stage for passage of the legislation in the Senate by the end of the week. "

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Jerry BrownJerry Brown, 72, former two-term governor, former mayor of Oakland, current state Attorney General, yesterday, Monday, opened his fall campaign for Governor of California. He has no serious challenger in the Democratic  Primary. He  has spent less than $1 million. The two GOP rivals for the Republican nomination, billionaire Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO, and  multimillionaire Poizner, the current state insurance commissioner, have spent millions, getting their message out, as they battle each other for the right to face Mr. Brown this fall.  The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Ms. Whitman has spent $64 million of her own money to date, and Mr. Poizner has spent $21 million from his.

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