The most recent CBS News/New York Times poll again shows that by far the top issue for Americans right now is job creation.

We should have paid closer attention to Tracey Baim, I suppose: she nicknames Barack Obama “The Great Equivocator,” having covered him since the beginning of his career. She was the managing editor of Outlines (the Chicago publication that since merged with Windy City Times) in 1996 when reporter Trudy Ring correctly reported on then-State Senate Candidate Barack Obama’s response to their candidate survey:

At roughly 1:00 pm, upon driving onto the base at Quantico, David House and blogger Jane Hamsher were detained. House, who is on the Quantico Brig’s visitation list, has been visiting Bradley Manning in confinement since last September…

As God is my witness, if I read one more headline like this, I swear — I’m going to lose it.

Jane Hamsher is with David House who is trying to visit Pvt. Bradley Manning at Quantico today while carrying a petition with 42,000 signatures requesting humane treatment for Manning. The military isn’t making it easy at all. We’re publishing her tweets as well as David House’s tweets here as a post in case you haven’t been able to follow on Twitter.

The President is not a pragmatist. Pragmatists think being right is a test of intelligence. No pragmatist let Larry Summers near anything that required getting it right.

Glenn Beck and his co-conspirators are at it again, this time demonizing an elderly college professor who is now being threatened with physical violence by Beck’s fans.

In 1976, environmentalists in the “Western Bloc” strategically worked to put anti-nuclear power ballot initiatives on the ballot in several states. They succeeded in getting anti-nuclear power measures on the ballot in Arizona, California, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Oregon and Washington. The measures failed in all the states by wide margins except in Missouri, where it passed overwhelmingly.

My husband got up at 5:00 a.m. to work outside in 7 degree F temperatures. He sat on the end of the couch, head in his hands sipping his coffee telling me how much he hates his job. How much it’s wearing him out. He makes $29.00 dollars an hour. Roughly $60,000 a year. He’s a union electrician. His health care premiums come out of his pay check; it is NOT subsidized by his “company.” His disability comes out of his pay check. It is NOT subsidized by his company.

I spent much of the day Friday pointing out how stupid it was for Obama to put outsourcer, China nut, and TBTF bankster Jeff Immelt in charge of his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Meanwhile, Paul Krugman and Robert Reich have been focusing on Obama’s frame for the problem as “competitiveness.”