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Posted on 08/12/2009 11:19:18 AM PDT by fiscon1
The approval ratings on nearly every one of the President’s key policy initiatives—cap-and-trade, health care overhaul, government take over of industry and finance, deficit spending, stimulus—are already less than half of polled voters. Obama’s own popularity has fallen dramatically and hovers near fifty percent. A number of well-publicized town meetings have erupted in shouting, as administration and congressional representatives try, often in condescending fashion, to explain the Obama agenda. The Republicans—written off just a few weeks ago as an obsolete party headed for oblivion—are now often polling higher in generic surveys than are Democrats
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The pubs have proven time and again that they have an uncanny ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
More of evidence of discontent could be seen on Hannity last night where they were discussing the plight of the farmers in California’s Central Valley. The farmers are being deprived of the water they need for their crops in order to protect a small minnow fish if you can believe it. The environmentalists think this fish is more important than our farmers and the crops they produce.
excellent quote. thank you for posting it.
The same thing happened in the Klamath Valley a few years ago. The sad thing was, IIRC, these were mostly man-made waterways and the fish was a non-native species.
Victor Davis Hanson may be personally affected by that—he has a family farm in the Central Valley (near Visalia, I think—within commuting distance of his job at Fresno State which he has now retired from).
I’m sure he has. Also the comedian Paul Rodriguez was on Hannity’s program as well expressing his outrage over this.
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