Steve Contorno Examiner Staff Writer Democrat Tim Kaine remains neck-and-neck in the polls with Republican George Allen in the race for an open U.S. Senate seat in Virginia, despite record-low approval ratings in the state for Kaine’s chief political ally, President Obama.

From The Washington Times: The Republican upset victory in the special election for New York’s heavily Jewish 9th Congressional District has set off alarm bells in Democratic political circles. The White House is launching an outreach effort to American Jews to convince them that Mr. Obama is the best friend Israel has ever had in Washington. If that were even remotely [...]

From The Washington Examiner: Millions of Americans are looking for work, and the number in poverty, 46.2 million, is the highest since the Census Bureau began compiling such data 52 years ago. The slow employment growth just might be connected to the $2,000-per-worker business tax, to begin in 2014, enacted as part of the 2010 [...]

From The Washington Times: Dismal new poll numbers for President Obama in Virginia and North Carolina underscore a growing danger to his 2012 re-election hopes — his job-approval ratings have dropped below 50 percent in all of the key states that he “flipped” from the Republicans in 2008. Mr. Obama was able to win three years ago mainly [...]

From NewsMax.com: President Barack Obama’s jobs plan is nothing more than stimulus junior and is destined to fail like the five-year plans of the old Soviet Union, Rep. Ted Poe tells Newsmax.TV. The Texas Republican said that, simply put, the idea that giving the government more control over money by raising taxes and spending as [...]

From RedState.com: For some time now, I and others have been documenting the relentless assault on economic growth by the EPA under President Barack Obama.  I feel like a broken record at times trying to beat this drum and get people to realize that while Obama doesn’t keep all of his campaign promises, destroying the coal industry is one [...]

From The New York Post: President Obama’s campaign team has trotted out AttackWatch.com, a spooky new Web site that asks followers to report “lies” being told about the president. The apparent point is to drown out opposition to Obama and his policies by encouraging instant cyber-swarms aimed squarely at the critics. The rollout brought much [...]

From Michelle Malkin: In her latest flexing of federal “Let’s Move” muscle, First Lady Michelle Obama has strong-armed several major restaurant chains into re-designing their menus to her exacting healthy standards. Move it or lose it! Michelle Obama said Thursday that a pledge by the Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants and their sister chains [...]

From World Net Daily: President Obama’s official re-election campaign has set up a website ostensibly to defend him against false attacks, but its obvious purpose is to smear Republicans and propagandize. What could be more shameless? Jim Messina, Obama’s re-election campaign manager, in a fundraising email announcing the website, said: “Forming the first line of [...]

From The Blaze: Remember in July when President Obama told a Latino rights group that he wished he could “bypass” Congress in order to get things done? Here’s a refresher: Well if you thought that was just an anomaly, or an off-the-cuff remark, you may want to think again.  On Wednesday, Obama repeated the sentiments [...]

From NewsMax.com: The Obama administration has been hit with a second scandal alleging cronyism — this time potentially compromising military safety. Four Star Gen. William Shelton was urged to alter his testimony to Congress to make it more favorable to a company with close ties to the White House, alleges Republican Rep. Mike Turner, chairman [...]

From World Net Daily: I don’t know about you, but I think it’s a pretty big story when the man sitting in the White House flunks the government’s own test to determine whether someone can legallyworkin the U.S. And, in case you missed it,that’s just what happened to Barack Obama when his Social Security Number [...]

From NewsMax.com: Americans aren’t rejecting President Barack Obama’s jobs plan out of hand, but they aren’t embracing it with open arms, either. Two new polls show that, although more favor the president’s $447 billion plan than oppose it, their backing falls far short of half. A CNN/Opinion research poll shows that the public favors the [...]

From NewsMax.com: The move to challenge President Barack Obama in a Democratic primary is growing stronger by the day with House members openly pushing the case for an internal party battle. The clear favorite of Democrats is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but she has ruled out a challenge. Last week she told ABC News [...]

From CNS News: In a question-and-answer session after his speech to the Economic Club of Washington, D.C, on Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) said that speaking with President Barack Obama is sometimes like speaking to someone from a different planet. The moderator, David Rubinstein, asked Boehner: “So, when you played golf with the president, [...]

This is genius. From The Daily Caller: I had never heard of Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) until yesterday. But if they give awards for inspired political mischief, Gohmert is an instant Hall of Famer. As reported by Mary Katharine Ham, yesterday Gohmert introduced the American Jobs Act. No, not that American Jobs Act. Not the $447 billion hodge-podge [...]

From News Busters: We couldn’t make this stuff up if we wanted to. Yesterday NPR blogger Frank James saw a parallel between President Obama’s rally cry to a supporter to help him pass his “jobs bill” with Jesus’s charge to the apostle Peter to “feed my sheep” (h/t Michael Ganoe): The realities of governing as opposed to [...]

THE recession ended, at least technically, only six months into Barack Obama’s presidency.

AMERICA’S political priorities have undergone a breathtaking about-turn. In early August Barack Obama and Congress were consumed by fears about deficits, eventually making a deal to cut more than $2 trillion dollars from the budget over the coming decade.By the time Mr Obama spoke to Congress on September 8th, though, the deficit had taken a back seat to job creation. Mr Obama proposed a $447 billion plan which, he said, would keep the economy from dipping back into recession.

WHEN is anything going to go right for Barack Obama in the Middle East?