Posted on 03/20/2010 5:20:09 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
As we stand at the verge of the historic vote on the health care bill — a signature piece of President Obama’s agenda — it feels appropriate to take a look at how he has fared during the long slog that got us here. My quick assessment: remarkably well.
First, let’s take his job approval rating. Yes, it slid during the summer, but it stabilized around 50 percent in November and has hovered there ever since.
The empty-headed chattering class began another round of speculation and inane analysis this week when his approval rating dropped to 46 percent, its lowest yet. Silly pundits.
It was a minor tick and overplayed. If I were a Republican strategist (God forbid!), I would actually be very worried that the lower 50s/upper 40s could be Obama’s bottom. He has weathered some of the worst months of his young presidency recently, and his numbers have barely budged.
The second thing to remember is that job approval is only one measure of how well a president connects with the electorate.
At the conclusion of his Wednesday appearance on Fox News, insolent interviewer Bret Baier interrupted the president for the umpteenth time to ask him if he thought that the health care bill would pass. Obama responded with a familiar line: “I do. I’m confident it will pass. And the reason I’m confident that it’s going to pass is because it’s the right thing to do.”
This idea that he wants reform “because it’s the right thing to do” resonates with people. Whether they agree with him or not, they seem to genuinely believe that he has good intentions and that he is, at his base, a good man. This view of him has so penetrated the public that it often goes unspoken.
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Do much graveyard whistling? There's those good intentions the left has been telling us about for so long. It doesn't matter what this terribly misguided man, raised on the knee of radicals that hate America, considers good. It also doesn't matter how things turn out when all the unintended consequences are considered. It's the intentions of clueless and obtuse people that matter. Sure thing, Mr. Blow.
And no matter what your little poll from Pew might say, a very large and ever growing segment of the populace is beginning to see this pretender exactly like those of us that had him pegged from the beginning: as an arrogant, misguided,and ultimately foolish boob.
Wait until gas goes over three bucks a gallon nationwide. It already has in certain states. And it will probably go up..something the Obama admin, by the way, desires greatly. But when it does, his poll numbers will slide further. Blow can blow it out his nether regions.
Wait until gas goes over three bucks a gallon nationwide. It already has in certain states. And it will probably go up..something the Obama admin, by the way, desires greatly. But when it does, his poll numbers will slide further. Blow can blow it out his nether regions.
“...insolent interviewer Bret Baier...”
Blow don’t remember Sam Donaldson? How old is this Joe Blow? One could search out and find I’d guess a half dozen lib interviewers ( one on one’s were rare - well all rare compared to zer0 measures) but particularly White House press room presentations by Presidents Nixon and Reagan.
REAL insolence practically every time out, especially by Donaldson.
“According to my most recent issue of “Imprimis” that figure for government handouts is not 46% but about 60%.”
Just checked website for the first time and am I a dummy for never going there.
Alas I see just three articles from latest issue and I don’t think one you are referring to.
Does one have to wait to see fuller set posted?
What is the one you are referring to - who is author?
This what the NY Times is publishing these days? Wow. Thankfully, I haven’t read that rag since about 1995.
The author should have a hypenated last name, just add -job.
I think he has been wrong on EVERY sports pick he has made.
If you go to the Hillsdale College website in their podcast section http://www.outloudopinion.com/category/podcasts/outloudopinion-podcasts/imprimis/ you will find the lastest issue in audio format titled, “Health Care in a Free Society – Paul Ryan”
On page four of my Imprimis issue Congressman Paul Ryan says the following.
“If we go down this path, creating entitlement after entitlement and promising benefits that can never be delivered, America will become like the European Union: a welfare state where most people pay few or no taxes while becoming dependent on government benefits; where tax reduction is impossible because more people have a stake in welfare than in producing wealth; where high unemployment is a way of life and the spirit of risk-taking is smothered by webs of regulations.”
“America today is not as far from this tipping point as we might think. While exact and precise measures cannot be made, there are estimates that in 2004, 20 percent of households in the U.S. were receiving about 75 percent of their income from the federal government, and that another 20 percent of households were receiving nearly 40 percent. All in all, about 60 percent of American households were receiving more government benefits and services, measured in dollars, than they were paying back in taxes. It has also been estimated that President Obama’s first budget alone raises this level of “net dependency” to 70 percent.”
This guy isn’t even factoring the corporate welfare that gets doled out every year from what I can see.
Obama is not invincable, but Conservatives simply have to not only be smarter, but anticipate what the Marxist Left is going to do...because they will do it. No longer will anyone on the Left come close to operating at a level of honesty, or have any honor or ethics regarding how far they will go to destroy the US. When I think of what the founders of the US had to do...to remove the dicatorship of “religion” and “royalty” from this country, and how much we have lost today....when the religion of socialism is being worshipped by the Left...it makes me physically ill. This battle is going to last a long, long time and I fear that Conservatives and others do not have the “will” or the ideology to fight these people...or be smart enough to understand exactly what has been going on on the left since the 1960s. A major problem with Christianity is that it is passive, forgiving, and filled with such “nice” people who do not like to confront anyone or wage actual war against others who threaten them or this country. Christians believe that simply praying will “save” the US. Well, tell that to the 14 million who died in WW2 with a prayer to god on their lips. Christian dogma also sets up believers to feel so much “guilt” (which the Left uses effectively) they are manipulated into voting blindly for programs to take care of the “poor” (meaning massive tax and welfare programs) that Christiany has essentially ham strung and castrated itself and prevented what should have been done 40-50 years ago when this war against the US began...when the Left began its Jihad against those of us who like to live in a free country. Now, its almost too late. But, we shall see...if there is any backbone under the cowl of Christian forgiveness...we may survive.
The fact that half or more of our households receive more from our government than they pay into it is scary and outrageous for the people successful enough to be paying into it. This should be a centerpiece of Conservative strategy going forward.
But as you point out, if a majority of voters are net receivers then we’ve got a problem. I think we need to just plain run out of money.
We’ve been out of money for quite a while now. We just need to have the world quit loaning it to us.
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