With so many Democrats running against the president’s agenda in the midterm, change will come in the next Congress, regardless of which party is in control.

via Kim Strassel: The Obama Heyday Is Over – WSJ.com.

We now know that federal employees across the nation owe fully $1 billion in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.

As in, 1,000 times one million dollars. All this political jabber about giving middle-class …

… Americans a tax cut. Thousands of feds have been giving themselves one all along — unofficially. And these tax scofflaws include more than three dozen folks who work for the president with that newly decorated Oval Office.

via 41 Obama White House aides owe the IRS $831,000 in back taxes — and they’re not alone | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times.

President Obama this week proposed a long-term federal jobs program with a $50 billion price tag, but 61% of U.S. voters say cutting government spending and deficits will do more to create jobs than the president’s new program.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 28% think the president’s jobs program is a better way to create new jobs.

via 61% Say Cutting Spending Will Create More Jobs Than Obama’s New $50 Billion Program – Rasmussen Reports™.

In one of several embarrassing disclosures for the administration, a report last fall by American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop found that 11 U.S. wind farms used their grants to purchase 695 out of 982 wind turbines from overseas suppliers.

via ‘Green’ jobs no longer golden in stimulus – Washington Times.

The rich, Obama insists, aren’t paying their “fair share.” This by itself seems odd given that the top 1% of Americans pay 40% of all federal income taxes; the next 9% of income earners pay another 30%. So the top 10% pays 70% of the taxes; the bottom 40% pays close to nothing. This does indeed seem unfair–to the rich.

via How Obama Thinks – Forbes.com.

Look who has joined the… – Party Of No.

The U.S. has slipped down the ranks of competitive economies, falling behind Sweden and Singapore due to huge deficits and pessimism about government, a global economic group said Thursday.

via The Associated Press: US loses ground in competitiveness report.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-seven percent (47%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -24

via Daily Presidential Tracking Poll – Rasmussen Reports™.

In a sign that Democrats are not on-board with what was supposed to be a major cornerstone of their platform this fall, an increasing number of Democratic incumbents and candidates are criticizing Pres. Obama’s economic plan.

Within 24 hours of Obama’s major address in Ohio on Thursday, a Democratic senator, three House Democrats and another two Democrats vying for open House seats all distanced themselves from Obama’s economic plan.

via Dems Breaking With Obama’s Economic Plan – Hotline On Call.

PARMA, Ohio – With less than an hour before President Obama’s scheduled speech, 75 seats remained empty in the recreation center at Cuyahoga Community College’s Western Campus.

So organizers went around campus and recruited more students to fill the seats.

Student Jennifer Rahal, of Parma Heights, whose class was canceled today, was working on her art work in the coffee shop in the basement of the building when the call went out for more guests.

After dropping off their stuff at a bag check, the newly invited guests cleared security and filed into the gym.

via Tri-C students recruited to fill the seats for Obama’s appearance | cleveland.com.