The more he talks about nationalizing health care and spending more money…
…the lower his poll numbers go.
Heading into a critical period in the debate over health-care reform, public approval of President Obama’s stewardship on the issue has dropped below the 50 percent threshold for the first time, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll…
…Since April, approval of Obama’s handling of health care has dropped from 57 percent to 49 percent, with disapproval rising from 29 percent to 44 percent. Obama still maintains a large advantage over congressional Republicans in terms of public trust on the issue, even as the GOP has closed the gap…
…Obama’s approval rating on his handling of the deficit is down to 43 percent, as independents now tilt toward disapproval (42 percent approve; 48 percent disapprove). More broadly, 55 percent of Americans put a higher priority on holding the deficit in check than on spending to boost the economy, compared with 40 percent who advocate additional outlays even if it means a sharply greater budget shortfall. This is a big shift from January, when a slim majority preferred to emphasize federal spending.
How will they spin this?
Support for new spending is tempered by flagging confidence on Obama’s plan for the economy. Fifty-six percent are confident that his programs will reap benefits, but that is down from 64 percent in March and from 72 percent just before he took office six months ago. More now say they have no confidence in the plan than say they are very confident it will work. Among independents and Republicans, confidence has decreased by 20 or more points; it has dropped seven points among Democrats.
All that splurging on sliced ham and doors ain’t helping.
***
I smell book-cooking…
The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap between its once-upbeat predictions about the economy and today’s bleak landscape.
The administration’s annual midsummer budget update is sure to show higher deficits and unemployment and slower growth than projected in President Barack Obama’s budget in February and update in May, and that could complicate his efforts to get his signature health care and global-warming proposals through Congress.
The release of the update – usually scheduled for mid-July – has been put off until the middle of next month, giving rise to speculation the White House is delaying the bad news at least until Congress leaves town on its August 7 summer recess.
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Obama and his corrupt congress are going down. It just takes the American People a long time to wake up!! Fortunately, there is still time, but that time is getting short.
America is waking up, way to slowly, but its there.
Don’t get to feeling too confident, remember, the congressional clowns don’t care what “We the People” think!
Is there anyone in the MSM who have the cojones to ask a simple question on Wednesday? Why has the budget update been delayed?
Is there any way we can lock the doors when they leave and not let them back in? We are better off with NO CONGRESS AT ALL than these morons.
the American people are finally seeing zero for who he really is, expecting change all they got was pure bs.
Of course Obama wants people to stop thinking about this and to stop asking questions about it. He wants only a brief period of time during which this plan could be scrutinized.
What he DOESN’T want is everyone looking at it closely and realizing how bad it really is for Americans.
Need more time to cook the books? Naw, not Colonel Obama. Transparency and all that jive talk. He wouldn’t do that, would he?
Of course he could just be trying to maneuver around the Government health care scam.
Per Drudge Rasmussen poll for 1012: Romney-45, bho-45==Palin-42, bho-48. I just pray enough people wake up to see how bho is cratering our country. It does look like he is going down faster by the day.
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We’d need a half million people to form a blockage around the Capitol Building to keep them from getting into it. A million would be better though.
Would THAT be a sight to see.
err ” a blockade”
all we heard was…..
“barack obama, barack obama, better for the economy, barack, barack!, barack obama, barack obama, barack!”
yes, you have to do your best parrot impression to read that, or in Oreilly’s voice.
Dumba$$ Voters 08
Clockwise and counter clockwise at the same moment in time.
What is important is to beat on the MSM until the pain of bad ratings forces them to start reporting the facts.
I truly do not care if Obama is a miserable failure or the greatest thing since sliced bread and long as journalist integrity gets returned and Americans can get the facts, good or bad, so they can make up their own minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said:
Seems on topic, somehow
zero has been a miserable failure since day one, but certain criteria was a reason to not let him fail or been as such. makes it hard to sing the praises of the affirmative action crowd when incompetence and failure are all they can take credit for.
I have written, called and smoke signaled evry person I can think of in the House and Senate and still no reply or even an acknowledgement. I am trying an experimant – I wrote both my state senators requesting a grant for a solar/wind powered power system for my farm. Lets see if I receive any answers.
I saw a picture of Obama on Fox this a.m. that sent chills of dread down my spine. He looked so evil. It was a close-up of his eyes. It was similar to looking into Al Gore’s eyes. There is bad stuff there. I read people by their eyes, and some of these folks are pure evil. There is no other way to describe them.
happyscrapper: Lock ‘em out and let the first 535 people in line to tour the Capitol the next morning take their place. We couldn’t be any worse off!
One added note. I have been trying to think of a way to send a clear message to Washington and I think I have found one. Not sure it will fly but, every single person that works take a day off without pay. It will be hard but, no pay=no tax for that day.
OPERATION OVER-REACH is moving forward.
There are now two distinct dangers–
1. THE ONE will wise up, moderate and become MUCH more dangerous in the process;
2. BIG BRO will slow down, leaving us with a MUCH LESS energized opposition that will settle back to complacency…with many of the horrors of the last months in place and becoming institutionalized (rooted) in our system. From that base, Fabian steps can be taken to get everything.
starvethebeast.net
Your idea is one of many that need to be fostered.
A two million dollar ham sandwich? Must be really good ham!
“My sandwich bit me! I’m beating it into submission!”
- Curly (CALLING ALL CURS, 1939)
Funny you say that I get the same creepy feeling from his eyes as well! Empty and evil. They say the eyes are the mirror to the soul!
No quite the same as your idea…but in the same direction. Picked this up from a Google search:
On July 30th, Conservatives are “Going Galt”. On that date, Tea Party Nation is asking Conservatives all across the nation to “Call in Conservative”. On July 30th, Conservatives will not work, we will not buy. Instead, we will spend time with our families and friends. We will show President Obama and Congress who REALLY drives this economy. For more information on “A Day Without Conservatives” please visit http://www.teapartynation.com
Rather than take a day off w/o pay, everyone should change their tax withholding to 99 and come April 15 refuse to pay.
The change in revenue flow when the withholding change kicks in would send the Gov coffers into a spiral and hopefully send a message as to who controls the cashflow in this country.
Refusal to pay would demonstrate that they cant jail us all.
Its good to dream
The dem’s are sinking. Now, if only Republicans can get it together, maybe we can take this country back and start trying to do some damage control. But, Cornyn, Hatch, et. al. don’t give me much hope.
You put too much faith in the Republican party. Look elsewhere.
One step away from Fahrenheit 451.
I doubt they will “moderate”. They truly believe theirs is the correct course, and nothing will change that. Fanaticism will be their downfall because they just can’t help themselves. I know they ACT moderate when they are campaigning, but now that they have the power, they have become delusional and really think they are untouchable.
I repeat;
to All elected officials (and czars)
Obama, Pelosi, Reid, congress…
The Constitution was written to protect US, the PEOPLE, FROM YOU.
(not the other way around as you seem to act.)
A Tea Party protesting the health care boondogle met in front of Senator Perriello’s office in Charllotesville, VA this week. The Senator was away at the time. There were about 35 people peacefully protesting.
According to the local paper someone in the Senator’s office called the police who dispersed the protestors on the contention that they were on private property and were blocking people from moveing thier cars from the area. The protestors disbanded peacefully.
The Senator is beginning to show singns of tension after facing a number of protests over cap and trade and health care. He almost daily publicizes some aspect of the porkulous that is being spent in the area. I call him the pide piper of porkulous.
He is a freshman Senator and will abide by the Democratic leadership, but he goes beyond that to being an Obama cheer leader.
The Tea Party people are getting more organized in the area and have had two rallies that were a thousand people or more. That is a large number of people for this small University town.
The Governer’s race is leaning Republican and things are beginning to turn around in the Virginia.
Senator Perriello had better see the writing on the wall and get himself off the Cap and Tax and Health and ration band wagon. We can’t afford his kind of politics.
While spending time with families is a great idea why not spend it in front of some goobermental office protesting out of control government!!
Sounds like a great idea. You could call it:
Starve The Beast.
I wonder if http://www.starvethebeast.net is available?
Of course, Obama and his cronies could NEVER release the report and just TELL us the news is “good”, that way we’ll be as well-informed as any Chicago voter.
“Step right up, folks. Guess which peanut shell the pea is hidden under and win a prize!” “What do you mean there’s no pea?” “You think this is some sort of a scam?”
I’m all for this one, except it won’t stop O-bum-A from printing more money to spend. I stand corrected, O is actually printing the money now!
We need to remind our Congresspeople and Senators who they represent in a very visible way!
When you call your Congressional Reps and Senators to oppose Healthcare reform, you should also ask when your elected representatives will be holding Townhall meetings in your districts!
The House of Representatives will be out of session August 3 – September 4 for a “Summer District Work Period”
The Senate will be out of session August 10 – September 7 for a “State Work Period.”
Being out of session for a month should give all of our elected representatives plenty of time to hold one or more Townhall meetings in their districts to find out how their constituents really feel about the issues they are voting on.
If our Reps know that they will have to face their constituents in person to explain their votes, perhaps they will think more clearly about the votes they make in the House and the Senate!
When you get a date and time for the Townhall meeting in your district, please let us all know so we can help to spread the word to insure large attendence!
“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made conservatives who vote for third part candidates.” – Mark Twain
Huge distraction coming up. Watch and see.
Well, let’s see. If I were Obama, what would I do? Gosh, there are so many options.
Really start blaming Bush — with the help of my race creep of an A.G. to assist.
Get the New Black Panther Party to visit pollsters.
Bribe Republicans (lots of legal ways to do that).
Have another dinner at George Will’s house with the usual collection of pseudo-con idiots. And just for fun, invite the media to cover it.
Or better yet, just ignore the business.
After all, Obama can still count on huge swaths of the public and the intellectuals. The Democrat Party is not going to desert him. The 2010 census numbers will, of course, look very good for the democrats, one way or another. And let’s face it, even if the Republicans take over, they aren’t about to undo anything Obama has done, and with any luck at all, when the whole thing comes crashing down, it will fall of the Republicans. So the democrats will take over again, stronger than ever.
Sweet. Nothing to worry about, in other words.
Thomas,
I honestly believe that third party is a sure fire way to ensure four more years of Obama. However, that doesn’t mean I’m going to give the GOP a rubber stamp to run on a RINO platform. We need to take over the RNC by denying them funds until they get back to conservative values. Even when they do realize where their bread is buttered, I will criticize any move that doesn’t fit my values and position on the issues.
The only time I see you comment is in defense of the GOP. Why is that?
I’m constructing a letter to the GOP’s esteemed leader, Michael Steele, this morning. No money to the national org. until they start paying attention and speaking out to what’s really going on in this country. Whatever contributions I have at this point will go to individuals that supports my values/beliefs, and that’s going to be highly scrutinized.
I comment when people who claim to be conservatives support actions that will harm us all.
I think you should be wondering less about why I want to defend conservatism, and more about others who wish to – by the results of what they advocate – harm conservatism. But that’s just me.
You and Atheling must have been separated at birth. You both have the same tired “Don’t vote third party!” dogma! Sorry that dog don’t hunt no more! I’ll vote my principles and conscience, thank you very much! I will never again be a GOP buttplug, but you go right ahead!
LOL @ the Cheese Maverick!
I spent part of June among the Northeastern Socialist Republics, and I noted that not all is well in Obamaland. The natives are definitely getting restless, and there are murmurings of unease and discontent over health care rationing and runamok government spending. A couple of yellow-dog Democrats of my acquaintance are beginning to sound like actual moderates.
I live in a very liberal town, and I can tell you that Kerry/Edwards stickers and yard signs stuck around for at least a year.
The Obama signs and stickers are largely gone.
Did you see the AP report on Michael Steele’s National Press Club speech. He actually is calling the Obamacare thing socialism.
If the obama administration wants to cook the books in the easiest fashion, they should just put all their information on Kindles. Then, they could delete the information at any time they want without a trace…
Beck was talking some pretty strong tax boycott kinda language today…
You ought to check him out.
The Democrat Party is satanic. Hence their positions on homosexuality, abortion, Christianity, fidelity, patriotism, and so on.
Steele came out of his coma? A medical miracle!
Obama found a few goons in the AMA to shill for him . . . I wonder what they him? The AMA doesn’t represent the majority of the health care providers and they certainly don’t represent the public.
None of the doctors I know will play along. They will take their toys & go home.
gee, the rnc is actually now thinking obama is a chavez cloned socialist. what gave steele his first clue? our gubmint has nationalized 66% of the auto industry and given it to obama’s friends. the gubmint has nationalized large numbers of banks and financial institutions, as well as bailed out fannie and freddie and aig. the stimulus money spent already went to states to cover their shortfalls, which means no stimulus since it was spent covering what was committed to last year. the rnc and the republican party is nothing more than democrat light. not quite a socialist, just a spendthrift.
I keep praying that the GOP will wake up and shake off the “assistant democrat” kool-aid that they have been drinking for the last six years. Even if none of the state-run media will cover them, they should be screaming opposition, not bi-partisanship, into every Fox and talk radio microphone!
And he was using words too big for many people. Too many don’t care one way or the other about “socialism”, because we already have some “socialism’ in place. Steele, and everyone else needs to reduce the message to simple words and terms, emphasising what this Obamanation will COST in TONS of MONEY we don’t have sending our national debt into oblivion, thousands of JOBS lost and really, really BAD NON-HEALTH CARE replacing a current health care system which needs some reformation, not radical replacement! People wouod get that, I hope.
I wish President Soros would leave my country and take his jug-eared baby tyrant with him.
Conservatives need a lobbyist. It’s time to turn from our elected representaives, and get paid representation. Seriously. Congress turns off the phones, ignores email, couldn’t care less what constituents think – it’s time to buy their votes. There are enough of us that could donate, we just need a focused organization – a K Street firm – to present our point of view. Reelection donations to follow. Party is immaterial, it’s the votes that count.
I want to encourage Obama to keep talking…….
Unending TV commercials filmed in Canada, the UK and France showing people waiting for hours in an emergency room with broken bones, then being sent home and told to come back, interviews with relatives of those who died waiting months for emergency surgery…30 – 60 seconds long and on shows that people watch…
Maybe I wasn’t clear – the commercials should be a conservative strategy…
AG: Fox and Friends had a piece on this morning where someone from PJTV took a concealed camera into the Canadian health system. Good, SCARY stuff!
You know the State Run Media will really be on board with this : )
I found a little blurb at Tea Party Nation (TPN)that Obama will use the Budget Reconciliation Process in order shove this Healthcare takeover down our throats. In doing so a 60 vote filibuster-proof majority is not required.
And it may explain why Obama has not relased a budget update as is the norm. (!?!?)
TPN doesn’t have any references, but it got me to thinking…I would not put it past the Dems to do it.
Do NOT get overconfident that this will not be pushed upon us.
Anyone with more insight into how they could go about doing this through Reconcilation?
I find it interesting that when it looks like the nation is taking a conservative turn…..the Stock Market keeps going up. If and when we’re able to stop cap and trade, health care, card check and some of the other crap…..this economy might revive. But if it does….Obama will have had nothing to do with it (reviving).
In the past I have never hestitated to vote a third party if I felt he was the better candidate. Not this time. I will not risk putting this dumba@ back in the white house. No way, nadda, not happening, forget about it.
I loath him that much!
Rather odd–he is NOT doing anything he did not tell the people he was going to do-not at all. People are so dumb they thought healthcare was going to pay for itself? A more efficient-cost effective stranglehold on our lives would be more acceptable? If they put felt in that collar around our neck would that be acceptable?
America is waking up? Right AFTER she sold herself like some common whore; I am not impressed. We were told there would be healthcare reform-we were told there would be a redistribution of wealth-we were told energy costs would be deliberately raised-coal plants shut, oil and gas exploration curtailed and our Constitution shredded as a mere Bill of Negative Rights.
America was told this by Obama himself repeatedly–and now they are waking up–somehow I do not feel relieved. We gave ourselves the choice of the Fascist Obama or the Fascist ObamaLite/McCain and now Obama has the power and Congress–America: we have a problem.
Resistance is mandatory.
That’s fine, but don’t complain when the Obama’s from the other side win and tell you bend over and play catcher. You’ll wish you had a buttplug to keep the huge liberal cock out of your ass.
Oh, my.
My my, too much in house hostility-find a candidate to support and do so–House, Senate whatever. There are plenty of fascist/statist/liberals/trolls to hate–let’s not get on each other.
If ObamaLiteMcCain had of won he would have pushed Cap and Tax, Stimulus,Tarp,Carp and a variation of Healthcare REFORM(I hate that term). I voted for the SOB, sent him money and all that good horsepitstuff. I could have just banged my head into the wall and saved a buck.
Try to change the party, go third party whatever–but let not CONSERVATIVES go after each other. HATE A LIBERAL–IT’S FUN.
Why hate a liberal when there’s ObamaLiteMcCain to use as your punching bag even as this horse is down and never getting back up.