It grows, its on Facebook; and it is happening in Tennessee, Houston, Washington DC, St Louis, San Diego, Atlanta, Orlando and Kansas City.
This looks to be growing like wildfire and given the way that Obama is doing everything he can to kill the economy entirely, I can’t see any end to it this side of 2012.
UPDATE: 54% say “no” to bail outs, says Rasmussen.
After one month in office, Barack Obama sees his approval drop, disapproval jump, and all claims of him being “post-partisan” go right down the toilet.
Increased public disapproval of Obama over the past month is mainly offset by a decrease in the percentage of Americans saying they have no opinion of his job performance. The latest figures are based on Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Feb. 19-21.
These shifts result in a slightly different profile for Obama relative to past presidents than what he enjoyed in the immediate afterglow of his inauguration. While Obama’s initial 68% job approval rating was one of the highest in Gallup polling history (from Dwight Eisenhower through George W. Bush), his current 63% job approval rating is typical of how the last several presidents have fared at the one-month mark.
So, as Republicans were clearly willing to give Obama a chance, Obama’s My-Way-Or-The-Highway Style “Bipartisanship” brought his historically high initial approval rating to a historically average approval rating.
According to Gallup, most presidents see an initial rise in their approval.
All newly elected presidents start off with a relatively high approval score, as well as a high percentage of Americans expressing “no opinion” about their job performance. As they start to make decisions, deliver speeches, and work with Congress, fewer Americans have “no opinion” about their performance, and most presidents see an initial rise in their approval rating. Historically, that rise has been evident after a month, and continues at least through the first 100 days.
So what can we make of this? What does this say about the potential approval ratings for Obama in the longterm? I think all presidents from now on will see their approval ratings teeter around 55% after an appropriate time has passed where the presidents performance can be properly judged on his presidential record. I expect Obama’s ratings to hit that mark within the 2009 calendar year. Obama clearly has decided to abandon his promise of bipartisanship, and thus the good will shown by Republicans will bleed away.
UPDATE: Today Gallup reports that Obama’s approval rating has now dipped below 60% for the first time, with independents now starting to see the light:
The drop below 60% approval within the past week — from 63% in Feb. 18-20 polling to 59% in Feb. 21-23 polling — has mostly come among independents. Late last week, 62% of independents approved of Obama, compared with 54% in the last three days.
His approval with Democrats has dipped (although to a statistically insignificant degree) while approval from Republicans, which has already took a big hit, remains unchanged from the last poll.
I did get that one entry up for today, but we buried Dolores yesterday and brought my father home from the hospital, so I was a bit busy. We thank you all for your prayers and kind words over the past week and your patience with the spotty blogging. Henceforward, I should be more productive.
Meanwhile, here’s an open thread for you guys to have at it over all the news of the day.
Which means, of course, they are fleeing anything which might wind up on Obama’s tax increase chopping block:
Wall Street has turned the clock back to 1997. Investors unable to extinguish their worries about a recession that has no end in sight dumped stocks again Monday.
The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 251 points to its lowest close since May 7, 1997, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 index logged its lowest finish since April 11, 1997. It’s as if the decade’s dot-com surge, collapse and subsequent recovery never occurred.
The Dow is just over 100 points from 7,000. Both indexes have lost about half their value since hitting record highs in October 2007.
“People left and right are throwing in the towel,” said Keith Springer, president of Capital Financial Advisory Services.
Here’s a thought, liberals: Justice.
Its a nifty word, which you might want to familiarize yourselves with, as it is key to the success of any democratically governed republic. You have to be just – as the kooks you support shout, “no justice, no peace”…but they don’t understand what it really means. But, indeed, “no justice, no peace”…and, of course, “no justice, no economic recovery”.
It is unjust to single out a part of your population as either the cause of your problems, or whom you must hit hard to make your life better. We are all people, and all of us are Fallen, and all of us bear our aliquot portion of blame for what has gone wrong and, of course, have our personal responsibility to see that things improve. To say that “The Rich” benefited under Bush and must now pay under Obama merely means that you are going to unjustly blame some people for things you had a hand in screwing up.
We need to do things – we need to defend ourselves, maintain and improve our common property, succor the poor and helpless…lots of things need to be done. But to go on a boondoggle of new spending which is entirely designed to pay off political supporters of Obama and his Democrats and demand an allegedly wicked “The Rich” foot the bill is unjust – and, as you can see from our collapsing stock market, counter-productive. You think you know what the deficit will be for fiscal year 2009? You haven’t a clue, because as the stock market loses value, incomes around the economy drops and thus down goes taxable income…you liberals are massively increasing spending and cutting income off right at the knees at the very moment you need to maximize it.
“Stupid” doesn’t even begin to describe this course of action you’ve chosen.
You need to pony up, liberals – stop thinking of yourselves as superior beings who bear no share of what went wrong. You were there, too – you can ignore it all you want, but your Frank and Dodd and Biden and Obama were all there, right at the top of the heap, helping to make the decisions which screwed the economic pooch in the United States. We have to change – and real change, not the fake change your man Obama is engineering.
We need to retrench – cut spending down to the most life and death vital things and cut taxes and regulations on business development which hinder the creation of new wealth. We’ve lost probably trillions in national wealth over the past year, and the only way we’re going to get out of it is to make it back, again. But this time, with wisdom – not with a phony baloney credit system built on air, but on our making, mining and growing things.
Or, you can put your faith in Obama and hope against hope that, some how, spending money we don’t have will make us rich. Your choice – and if you choose as I think you will, we conservatives will reap the electoral benefit in 2010 and 2012.
Binyam Mohamed, an al Qaeda trained terrorist was released from Guantanamo Bay and freed in England.
His release is unprecedented, and an example of Barack Obama’s lack of committment to the War on Terror. All previously released Gitmo detainees had been declassified and determined to no longer be a threat. Mohamed is still classified as an “Unlawful Enemy Combatant.”
Militray Families United has responded with ad “to bring attention to the dangerous decision the White House has made in releasing Binyam Mohamed, a known member of al-Qaeda and alleged collaborator with the 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohamed.”
According to a release from Military Families United:
Under the dark of night the Administration chartered a plane from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Britain to release this known terrorist as a free man. Actions speak louder than words in the War on Terror, and releasing dangerous terrorists as free men isn’t a way to keep America safe and secure,” said MFU’s Executive Director Brian Wise.
In addition to the new advertisement, Military Families United distributed a petition to its members to urge President Obama to not release dangerous detainees from Guantanamo Bay if they still pose a threat to the United States. Military Families United will present this petition to the President and urge him to stop freeing terrorists. To see the petition visit http://www.dontfreeterrorists.org/
“It is important the American people know how dangerous this decision is and how it will affect the ability for our brave men and women in uniform to win the War on Terror. This ad is designed to mobilize the American people to voice their opinions to the President that they do not want these terrorists released back into society where they pose a threat to America and its allies,” continued Wise.
Here is the ad:
From Pajamas Media:
Is the GOP dead? Well, that’s what you would conclude from pundits on MSNBC or writing for the New York Times, but not if you have been following grassroots and online activists burning up blogs and conference calls since the November election. The newly elected GOP chairman, Michael Steele, has given fellow Republicans a challenge: it is time to beat the Democrats in the online world.
Since taking the helm of the Republican National Committee at the end of January, Chairman Steele has been popping up in new and old media taking issue with the stimulus bill and the Obama administration’s tax troubled appointees. But behind the scenes he has been partnering with Saul Anuzis, former Michigan GOP chair and former opponent in the race for RNC chairman, to invigorate the GOP online activists.
Last Friday, the RNC held the GOP Tech Summit at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, D.C., which brought together bloggers, politicos, and activists to discuss ideas ranging from social networking to online fundraising. The forum was also broadcast online so that those who were interested from all over the country could view and submit their comments. Attendees even got a surprise visit from Chairman Steele and Newt Gingrich. Followers of the discussion were then given action items and deadlines on proposals to be given to Chairman Steele. GOP Tech Summit on the RNC website has now over 2,000 ongoing contributors who are busy discussing lessons learned and strategy.
One thing I did immediately note upon signing up at SarahPAC is that she’s clearly going to do the Obama thing as regards New Media – and that, in and of itself, delighted me. We can beat these clowns on the left, and at their own game. And doing so would be oh, so sweet.
As for me, I’ve been rumbling from the get-go in the Obama Error – even in my congratulatory post, I fired me first warning shots. And now, its just more and more fun as Obama exhibits the reasons why we opposed him – from his manifest inexperience to his socialistic policies, Obama is being all we expected, and I’ve never seen the conservative base this fired up.
From CNN:
Barbour, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, said Obama’s recent travel is an indication that the new president is already running for reelection.
“He’s going to those places for a reason,” Barbour said on CNN’s State of the Union. “I mean David Axelrod, who’s his campaign consultant/manager/guru really is one of the brightest, most capable people in American politics. And so this is what we’ve become accustomed to, the perpetual campaign.”
In the last few weeks, the president has visited Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, and Colorado — all states that voted Republican in the 2004 presidential election but flipped to the Democrat’s side in 2008. Obama has also visited Arizona — the home state of his former rival, Sen. John McCain, and a state he’d like to turn blue in 2012.
The White House has said the president specifically visited those states because they are among the hardest hit by the nations sputtering economy and home foreclosure crisis.
Obama isn’t very good at being President, but he is superlative out on the stump, reading from a teleprompter…so, his handlers have decided that the best thing Obama can do is go read speeches. We can expect Obama to pretty much do nothing else between now and November of 2012. What he would do after that, if he’s re-elected, Lord only knows.
As for the staff lying – it is an obvious lie to say that Obama is only visiting States which are hard hit by the mortgage meltdown…California (Obama by 24 points), Alabama (McCain by 22 points), Hawaii (Obama by 45 points), Kansas (McCain by 16 points), Illinois (Obama by 25 points), Alaska (McCain by 22 points), Idaho (McCain by 25 points) and Oregon (Obama by 16 points) have also been very hard hit by the mortgage meltdown – the commonality between these not-visited States is that if Obama loses any that he won in 2012 then he’s toast, while its next to impossible for him to win those States he lost…so, why bother going?
Face it, Obama and his minders only care about you if you are part of the 2012 re-election campaign. And thus Obama’s staff has lied…it isn’t the first time, and we can almost rely upon it that its not even in the last 100 times it’ll happen.
Other than the Brokeback Mountain, Joker dead guy, I don’t know anything about who or what has been nominated. Seems that movies in 2008 were pretty much a run of worse crap than usual.
Have at it, if you have a mind.
Jerry Pournelle’s suggestion:
The best way out of this mess is the German Economic Miracle way: suspend regulations. All regulations. Make it easy to start new companies. Let ingenuity work to allocate capital. Of course we won’t do that.
He’s right – we won’t, but think how much fun this would be, if we did. You see, liberals are of the opinion that without strict regulation, we won’t know what to do and we’ll make a hash of things. This liberal thinking changes completely when the subject turns to abortion and pornography, of course – but if we’re waiting for logic and common sense from liberals, we’ll be waiting a long time. Meanwhile, taking all regulations off the economy just might scare liberals to death – they’d be instantly worried that Robber Barons would force people to accept a dollar a 14 hour day to work at dumping toxic waste from the gun factory into the soy milk supply.
Seems all that illegal Chinese money did what it was intended – got Hillary to be a willing stooge of her ChiCom paymasters:
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday urged China to keep investing its substantial foreign-exchange reserves in U.S. Treasury securities, arguing “we are truly going to rise or fall together.”
China is the biggest foreign holder of U.S. debt, which helped finance the spending binge the United States went on before the current economic crisis. Some experts have expressed concern that China’s substantial holding of U.S. debt gives it increased leverage in dealings with Washington because any halt in Chinese purchases would make it more difficult to finance the government bailout and stimulus packages.
I like that MSM bias, too – we went on a “spending binge” under President Bush, but what we’re doing under Obama is “stimulus package”. Someone got a way to differentiate between “binge” and “package”? Ah, well…
Anyways: it was announced earlier that Hillary had taken China’s horrific human rights record off the table…so, we’re officially unconcerned with forced abortions, torture, slave labor…but we don’t want the Chinese to buy our bonds, lest we be forced to print money to pay for Obama’s asinine economic policies. And when China decides to, say, move on Taiwan, just what will Hillary do? Get tough with the people who have the receipts for her illegal campaign contributions? Demand the largest holder of US debt back off?
Its going to be a loooong four years.
