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Take you partisanship shopping...

Via The Week:

If the thought of buying a product that might benefit a political party you can't stand makes you recoil in horror, the BuyPartisan app is for you.
The goal of this free app is to let people find out more information about the brands they purchase and the ideologies of their leaders and employees. After downloading the app, a user just has to scan a bar code using their phone's camera, and then wait for the information to pop up: the number in red is for contributions to the Republican Party, blue for the Democratic Party, and green for others.

For a third year in a row, President Obama is the most polarizing President ever

Gallop has found President Obama has a 68-point partisan gap in 2011. This is a new record for a third year President. Guess who hold the record for the first and second year partisan gap?

(WaPo)- President Obama ran — and won — in 2008 on the idea of uniting the country. But each of his first three years in office has marked historic highs in political polarization, with Democrats largely approving of him and Republicans deeply disapproving.

For 2011, Obama’s third year in office, an average of 80 percent of Democrats approved of the job he was doing in Gallup tracking polls, as compared to 12 percent of Republicans who felt the same way. That’s a 68-point partisan gap, the highest for any president’s third year in office — ever. (The previous high was George W. Bush in 2007, when he had a 59 percent difference in job approval ratings.)

In 2010, the partisan gap between how Obama was viewed by Democrats versus Republicans stood at 68 percent; in 2009, it was 65 percent. Both were the highest marks ever for a president’s second and first years in office, respectively.

Peer Reviewed Study: Paul Krugman is Nation's Most Partisan Economist

This peer reviewed study posted in Econ Journal Watch is hardly a shocker for anyone who has paid attention to Paul Krugman's morphing economic positions. Krugman has actually contradicted his own findings to make Republicans look bad.

NewsBusters reported:

Most economists are not susceptible to partisanship in their work, a new scholarly study finds. But anyone who reads Paul Krugman's columns in the New York Times will hardly be surprised to learn he is a glaring exception to the study's findings.

He consistently changes his fiscal views depending on the party in power.

"Krugman has changed his tune in a significant way regarding the budget deficit when the White House has changed party," found Brett Barkley, an economics student at George Mason University....

The White House is busy sending partisan health care propaganda to federal employees

The White House is busy sending partisan health care propaganda to federal employees. These emails from White House Office of Health Reform Director Nancy-Ann DeParle are addressed to the federal employees by name and use the official .gov address. According to CBS News, some federal employees have found them threatening and employees are afraid to complain.

The White House Office of Health Reform Director Nancy-Ann DeParle has been feverishly sending out unsolicited email messages to federal employees in an effort to build support for President Barack Obama’s health reform package over the last several weeks.

DeParle’s unsolicited emails have been regularly coming to some federal employees’ official government email inboxes for weeks without permission or request, causing some federal employees to feel threatened by the overt political language....

The unsolicited emails also request that the federal employees take action in order to ensure that Obama’s health reform package is passed and the federal budget isn’t at risk for bankruptcy....

Global Warming Skeptics Prepare for the Attack!

Global warming 'believers' are preparing a partisan attack on skeptics. They have had their Kool-aid and think you should too.

Undaunted by a rash of scandals over the science underpinning climate change, top climate researchers are plotting to respond with what one scientist involved said needs to be “an outlandishly aggressively partisan approach” to gut the credibility of skeptics.

Obama's Poll Numbers Plummet: Approval below 50% for First Time

The most accurate pollster from the 2008 presidential election has President Obama's approval under 50% for the first time. Only 49% of Americans somewhat approve of President Obama's performance.

Rasmussen reported:

Overall, 49% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Today marks the first time his overall approval rating has ever fallen below 50% among Likely Voters nationwide. Fifty-one percent (51%) disapprove. (accent mine)

President Obama is rapidly losing polling numbers on many other issues. Fifty-three percent of Americans now view him as a partisan Democrat. Fifty-three percent are against Congressional health care reform. Only twenty-five percent think the economic stimulus helped the economy. Seventy-two percent don't want the government deciding what kind of light bulbs they use. Additionally, President Obama's Presidential Approval Index is now -8. This number is calculated by subtracting the number of people that strongly disapprove from number of people that strongly approve.

From Rasmussen:

Story on partisan dealership closings grows

Many are claiming this story does not have merit because most dealers tend to be Republican. This seems plausible at first glance because most dealership owners are older, upper middle class businessmen. A first look at dealerships by Gateway Pundit indicates owners donate more to the GOP by a ratio of 76% to 24%. That does not explain why almost no Democratic supporter had their dealership closed. Many actually gained dealerships or had their competition eliminated.
Here are the story basics from Examiner.com:

Evidence appears to be mounting that the Obama administration has systematically targeted for closing Chrysler dealers who contributed to Repubicans. What started earlier this week as mainly a rumbling on the Right side of the Blogosphere has gathered some steam today with revelations that among the dealers being shut down are a GOP congressman and closing of competitors to a dealership chain partly owned by former Clinton White House chief of staff Mack McLarty.The basic issue raised here is this: How do we account for the fact millions of dollars were contributed to GOP candidates by Chrysler who are being closed by the government, but only one has been found so far that is being closed that contributed to the Obama campaign in 2008?

Florida Rep. Vern Buchanan learned from a House colleague that his Venice, Florida, dealership is on the hit list. Buchanan also has a Nissan franchise paired with the Chrysler facility in Venice.
"It's an outrage. It's not about me. I'm going to be fine," said Buchanan, the dealership's majority owner. "You're talking over 100,000 jobs. We're supposed to be in the business of creating jobs, not killing jobs," Buchanan told News 10, a local Florida television station.

Buchanan, who succeeded former Rep. Katharine Harris in 2006, reportedly learned of his dealership's termination from Rep.Candace Miller, R-MI. Buchanan owns a total of 23 dealerships in Florida and North Carolina.

Also fueling the controversy is the fact the RLJ-McCarty-Landers chain of Arkansas and Missouri dealerships aren't being closed, but many of their local competitors are being eliminated. Go here for a detailed look at this situation. McClarty is the former Clinton senior aide. The "J" is Robert Johnson, founder of the Black Entertainment Television, a heavy Democratic contributor.


A lawyer representing a group of Chrysler dealers who are on the hit list deposed senior Chrysler executives and later told Reuters that he believes the closings have been forced on the company by the White House.

"It became clear to us that Chrysler does not see the wisdom of terminating 25 percent of its dealers. It really wasn't Chrysler's decision. They are under enormous pressure from the President's automotive task force," said attorney Leonard Bellavia.

Adding to this story is the revelation Obama's Car Czar, Steven Rattner, is married to Maureen White, the former National Finance Chair for the Democratic Party.

Barack Obama has failed on promise to unite us

Researchers form the Pew Research Center have performed an analysis of polls. They found American politics is more polarized at this early stage of Barack Obama's presidency than at any equivalent point in the past four decades. March polling found a partisan gap of 61 points between Republicans and Democrats. That is worse than George Bush had in 2001. After the contentious and dividing election of 2000, President Bush had only a 51-point partisanship gap between Republicans and Democrats at this stage of his Presidency. The Main Stream Media painted President Bush with a reputation for divisiveness. They have been largely silent on President Obama's extreme divisiveness.

Barack Obama fails to reunite divided US, research shows
Barack Obama's promise to overcome partisan political divisions and reunite the United States has so far failed to materialise, according to independent analysts in Washington.

The Pew Research Centre carried analysed opinion polls six weeks into the Obama presidency and found that, contrary to the bipartisan note he has sounded, American politics is more polarised at this early stage in his presidency than at any equivalent point in the past four decades.

The researchers looked at the approval ratings for Obama reflected across several polls in early March, comparing his support among Democratic voters, which stood at a huge 88%, with that among Republican voters – only 27%.

That gives a partisan gap of 61 points. That is wider than even the 51-point gap between Republican (87%) and Democratic (36%) voters recorded at the start of George Bush's first term in 2001, despite Bush's reputation for divisiveness. (excerpt) read more at guardian.co.uk