Maybe he just needs to get the liberal sock puppets out and try explaining the Dag Hammarskjöld/Hans Kelsen neo-Kantian theories of international cooperation one more time, huh?
Posted on 04/08/2009 8:48:03 PM PDT by JohnRLott
President Obama is becoming the most divisively partisan president in history. At this point, he has less bipartisan support than former President George W. Bush after the Florida recount or former president Bill Clinton, whose first months in office were marred by missteps over gays in the military and the 51-day Waco, Texas siege that killed 74.
After a little more than two months in office, Mr. Obama has created the widest partisan gap in America since pollsters started measuring this in the 1960s. According to a new Pew Research Center poll, 88 percent of Democrats approve of the job he's doing, but only 27 percent of Republicans give him a thumb's up. That means the partisan gap is 61 percentage points. A Rasmussen survey shows that those who strongly disapprove of Mr. Obama have almost doubled. Only 16 percent strongly disapproved of the president on Jan. 21, the day after his inauguration. By Sunday, that number had jumped to 30 percent.
Mr. Obama's partisan gap is particularly jarring when compared to Mr. Bush's bumpy start. With the contentious 2000 Florida recount fresh in Democrats' minds, the partisan gap in April 2001 was 51 percentage points. Amid that controversy, Mr. Bush was enjoying nine percentage points more support among Democrats than Mr. Obama is now getting among Republicans. Mr. Clinton was no darling to Republicans, but his partisan divide was 45 percentage points early in his first year. And before that, former President George H.W. Bush had a gap of only 38 percentage points at the same stage in his presidency. . . .
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Cloward-Piven strategy as a refinement of fundamental divide and conquer...division in progress...everything going to plan..as so many use on the site...”move along now, nothing here to see”.
Our greatest weakness. An ignorantly disdirected public.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Yes, I believe that's the real story behind this story. (Not that Bam doesn't do a great job of alienating conservatives on his own)
Some nights, I come dangerously close to praying for Obama’s and Pelosi’s death, but then I realize God would be upset with me.
I have to trust God will deal with these evil people in his own time and his own way.
Maybe he just needs to get the liberal sock puppets out and try explaining the Dag Hammarskjöld/Hans Kelsen neo-Kantian theories of international cooperation one more time, huh?
Then a Hail Mary.
Obama’s personality has nothing to do with it. This unprecedented partisan divide is due to the vast differences in values and ideas embraced by Republicans (who love this country) versus those of the Democrats (who despise it).
The Democratic party’s “stimulus” package commits enormous sums of money far down the road to pork, so-called “education”, govt health care, and other welfare programs. This will make us a poorer and less free country when we do emerge from this recession/depression. A Republican’s nightmare and a Democrat’s wet dream.
Many of Obama’s words in Europe and his appointment of a “Transnationalist” (does that require surgery?) as a foreign affairs legal advisor. He thinks Brussels should have a final say on Supreme Court decisions. (That should cure us of our arrogance).
Obama is moving toward managing (not the just the financial take over) of our large industries. This could include forcing American auto companies to build “green cars” nobody wants.
He is still committed to cap and trade, which will gradually put our fossil fuel industry out of existence while bringing enormous revenues to the government and Al Gore via carbon credit auctions. To complete the job of putting out the lights on western civilization, he remains resolute in opposing nuclear power as a source of clean energy. (Are you sure he’s a Kenyan? This sounds more like Zimbabwe).
LOL! That's cold.
The author is one of the sharper knives in the drawer. I'm glad he posts here. Thank you Mr. Lott!
embraced by Republicans (who love this country) versus those of the Democrats (who despise it)I agree with what you are saying.. but at this point and time it has gone beyond political parties.. I am sure you meant conservative and liberal. There are too many Rinos in the Republican party to compare the two parties anymore :/ Bikk
Too late for me. With a few exceptions, I loathe the uninformed sheep who voted for Obama.
“I am sure you meant conservative and liberal. There are too many Rinos in the Republican party to compare the two parties anymore”
OK, it was an over-generalization. And I suppose some Paleo-Democrats are still alive, for example labor union members who “voted their pocketbooks” by voting Democrat. And some other Democrat populists (Well, you got the whiskey and soda set and then you got us poor ..... “farmers”, “bartenders”, “taxi drivers”, “candy store owners”, whatever other salt of the earth types there used to be).
But the old Democrat coalition is no longer a major factor in Democrat politics. It has been replaced by armies of lawyers, bureaucrats and yuppies to whom nothing much real has ever happened, and teachers and school administrators who think that History is “not relevant” and that Pax Romana is a sexually transmitted disease. The one major exception to this is that the Democrats still have the black vote, which means unending hopelessness for poor Blacks who continue to be pawns in their “leader’s” race industry.
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