Obama Disapproval Rating Reaches New High
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I honestly thought he’d be climbing out of it, at least a bit, by now:
Public disapproval of the job Barack Obama is doing as President reached a new high of 42.4% in the RCP Average today…
…On the flip side, Obama’s approval rating of 51.2% matches his all time low in the RCP Average. Taken together, Obama’s approval-disapproval spread is also at it’s lowest point to date of +8.8 points. That is down from a +43.3 point spread at the beginning of Obama’s term.
Presidents have ups and downs, of course, and we must expect that at some point Obama will rebound – but I don’t think Obama will ever again have the aura he had on January 20th. He blew it in a series of rankly partisan, hopelessly corrupt government moves (you know, Barry, we really did need to read the Spendulus bill before you signed it…). He will rebound. He might be re-elected in 2012, but that chance Obama had to really ram home the leftism is fading fast – and anything he fails to get done in September will continue to be undone throughout Obama’s term.
This is because of the permanent campaign – by October 1st, Congressional Democrats will be far less interested in Obama than in their own political hides. After the election of 2010, whatever the result, everyone will be keying in on what will happen in 2012. Obama will wield immense authority and as long as he has a Congressional majority, he’ll be able to enact many laws…but he won’t be able to abracadabra things like he did from January to June.
And you liberals have none but yourselves to blame for this – it was you who inserted nastiness in to our politics with Bork (well, strictly speaking, you did it when you slandered McCarthy all to heck and gone, but that is very old news); it was you who insisted we have permanent campaigns; it was you who made this situation where there are no second chances. You made the soup, now how does it taste?
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14 Responses to “Obama Disapproval Rating Reaches New High”
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Why? Has the situation changed in any substantial way?
Then might I ask what killed Andrew Jackson’s wife?
His numbers will go up once he:
1. Convicts and imprisons CIA interrogators
2. Closes Gitmo
3. Declared defeat, apologizes to the world, and pulls all troops out of Afghanistan
4. Takes control of our health care by getting Reid-tard and Piglosi to “pass the bill for Teddy”
5. Reuters, Gallup, CNN, et.al., do a few biased polls
Mark/Matt, your website wouldn”t display on my computer yesterday evening. Did Earbama take control of it for “emergency purposes?” lol
funny how a 35% approval rating was plenty on this blog, and enough to go on doing what he wants… for the last president.
http://www.blogsforbush.com/mt/archives/2007/07/republicans_com.html
Note that this is not a “bush did it too” post. My point is that Mark is exercising a blatant double standard here, and he was either trying to mislead then, or he is trying to mislead now.
his precious GM is “investing” 1/4 billion tax dollars into the chinese economy…instead of the US economy…
wont take long for this “revival” to fall flat on its beehind…shoot….Toyota benefited more from the great tax giveaway…than america did….how much more of this wealth redistribution can americans stand?
Its Tyranny…government tyranny…the plan from the 60s…developed to take over america…destroy american rights…destroy the american way of life…by creating crisis after crisis…to shape us into sheeple…and discourage our children from loving God…by putting the desires of the flesh before our very souls…
government has NO RIGHT to take over 1 single bank….we need to abolish the FEDERAL RESERVE and put the market right…face it…CONGRESS IS BURDENED WITH THE DUTY THEY PASSED OFF TO THE FEDERAL RESERVE…they are evading thier responsibility…and instilling into the FEDERAL RESERVE authority that the constitution DID NOT GRANT CONGRESS…
the same goes for every other act to sieze the assets of privately held corporations…they have NO RIGHT…to sieze the assets without due process…
I know there are a lot of people who disapprove of the way Obama is handling health care reform. People want a single-payer system (costs less, better results). They’ll apparently settle for a “public option” to provide competition in the health insurance industry — but when Obama starts to waffle even on that compromise position, lots more people will disapprove.
decline, you are simply wrong in your assertions.
1. People do NOT want a single payer system.
2. Single payer systems do NOT “cost less (with) better results”
Further, the so-called “public option” does NOT “provide competition in the health insurance industry”.
It’s a nice try, just blithely inserting a few Lefty talking points as if they have any validity at all, but they are simply wrong.
And the reason people “disapprove of the way Obama is handling health care reform” is because it is not REFORM, it is the first step toward totally disxarding the health care system as we know it and replacing it with a socialist, government-run, system. People see this, people understand this, and people are smart enough to realize what a mess it will create. You may actually believe the delusion that Obama is slipping because he is waffling on the single payer concept, or you may just be parroting some RRL mouthpiece, but in either case you are wrong.
The main reason he is slipping is only partly connected to the health care debacle. It is the growing awareness of the way Obama stampeded Congress, through a combination of fear-mongering and bullying and intimidation, into passing massive spending bills that do nothing but enrich Obama supporters, write blank checks for the Executive Branch to fill in at their whim at any time, and plunge the nation into unsustainable debt for generations. It was just his hubris in trying this again on health care that made it obvious to even the least politically aware citizen. Alinksy should have had a chapter on not trying to string too many “crises” together too fast, because someone might catch on to the scam.
BTW, you are behind the curve on your RRL talking points. Doncha know, it is no longer “health care reform” but “INSURANCE reform”, after polling pointed out that people like their health care but are not too happy about some of the insurance restrictions.
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My point is that Mark is exercising a blatant double standard here, and he was either trying to mislead then, or he is trying to mislead now.
WHY would a foreign national possibly care about what one man stated on an American blog?
I Notice you are missing in action every weekend and holiday……….
off the payroll then?
like I said….foreign AGENT PROVOCATEUR!
.foreign AGENT PROVOCATEUR!
neocon1, I’m beginning to think you may be on to something. What I find especially interesting is that ALL of our self-identified foreign visitors are Leftists. That alone is suspicious. Another blog that I visit regularly is WattsUpWithThat, recently voted Best Science Blog. Anthony Watts has attracted a widely diverse readership, with readers and commenters from all over the world. The vast majority of foreign visitors to WattsUp are polite, civil and contribute to the discussion. Some have even written guest posts. If there are any Gabrielles, Rasmuses, French Students and Canadian Observers there, I’m not aware of them. Intellectual “speed bumps”, as Amazona refers to them, serve no purpose other that to interrupt and derail the discussion. I can only speak for myself, but engaging in intellectual duals with unarmed people is not why I come here.
There are lots of examples, worldwide, of single payer health care systems that cost citizens less per capita than we spend in the United States, and result in better care. In fact, of all westernized industrial nations, I think we’re the only one that doesn’t have some variety of national health care.
This topic is not about health care, but I will point out that for-profit health insurance companies employ entire departments dedicated to finding ways to refuse payment once the cost gets high (rescission). By the time an individual client amasses the time and resources to “lawyer up” and fight these types of cases, he or she may be dead from lack of care.
I have heard plenty of talking points on both sides of this issue, but fundamentally, we as a nation need to “man up” and provide health care to our citizens, like the rest of the civilized world. We’re already paying more for health care, per capita, than any other westernized industrial country.
I am sure that I am not alone in saying that my “approval” of President Obama has gone down since he’s backpedaled and waffled on this issue,
Charles Krauthammer’s recent column is worth reading:
Obamacare: The Only Exit Strategy
“…(5) Promise nothing but pleasure — for now. Make health insurance universal and permanently protected. Tear up the existing bills and write a clean one — Obamacare 2.0 — promulgating draconian health-insurance regulation that prohibits (a) denying coverage for preexisting conditions, (b) dropping coverage if the client gets sick and (c) capping insurance company reimbursement.
The regulated insurance companies will get two things in return. Government will impose an individual mandate that will force the purchase of health insurance on the millions of healthy young people who today forgo it. And government will subsidize all the others who are too poor to buy health insurance. The result? Two enormous new revenue streams created by government for the insurance companies. ”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/27/AR2009082703262.html
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Government will impose an individual mandate that will force the purchase of health insurance on the millions of healthy young people who today forgo it. And government will subsidize all the others who are too poor to buy health insurance. The result?
as Reagan once said “Now there you go again”