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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