Rasmussen Reports™: 48% Say Obama Is Very Liberal

Seventy-six percent (76%) of U.S. voters now think President Obama is at least somewhat liberal. Forty-eight percent (48%) say he is very liberal, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
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For the second month in a row, 53% of voters say the president is governing like a partisan Democrat, while 32% say he is being bipartisan. In late January, only 39% of voters said he was governing in a partisan fashion while 42% said he was being bipartisan.

“…cataclysmic global warming is universally understood to be quite a lot like that comet on its earthbound track”

It is difficult, perhaps too difficult, for the powerful elders to make sacrifices to save their children’s children, when they are neither absolutely convinced of it, nor feel imminent danger to themselves.

Insurers blame rising home & car premiums on the weather [by the way, they wanted to raise rates anyway]

But P/C insurers say continuing reports of climate change and wacky weather make them nervous about sustaining further claims losses from the catastrophes to come. On top of that, while the market turmoil didn’t decimate their balance sheets, it did make insurers more cautious about the amount of money they can expect to earn from investments. “Insurers only have two sources of revenue, investments and premiums,” Hartwig says. “To the extent we can offset only a smaller share of losses with investment returns, … rates are going to have to pick up the slack.”