Strong. But Average. And Way Divided.

How long will it take for the GOP to realize that Obama is stronger thanks to the stimulus and that the public is souring on their obstructionist tendencies?

I love it when poor writers use the phrase “thanks to”…..well thanks to the stimulus the whole system is destined to go down. Its not going to be pretty. Remember that Matt…..because when it happens you’ll be changing the hymm your are singing for your dime store plastic messiah.

The public is souring on a party that tried to block:
1. The largest spending bill in world history
2. #1, with no provisions for hiring U.S. Citizens (i.e. no E-Verify)
3. Gives “average folks” (and I know that’s a dubious term) $8 more in their paychecks.
4. Fails to address the fundamentals behind the economic collapse.
Huh? How’s that Kool-Aid tasting?

The Obama theme song is “Welcome Back Carter”. The Nope & Dope Team are a joke.

Tom: “How long will it take for the Democrats to realize that GOP is stronger thanks to opposition to the stimulus…”
November 2010, just like it took until November 2008 for the Republicans to realize how impressed the American people really were with McCain/Palin.

I did not vote for President Obama, but had hoped that he would not be as partisan as he has been. I had hoped that he would actually have THIS country’s best interests in mind and thereby help the rest of the world. But my optimism has bee replaced by a deflated reality. He is JUST another politician. He is just another one who lies and manipulates. No matter how dire the circumstances he can not rise above it all to be a LEADER. He is afterall a fallible, corruptible human. The optimism will fade as reality hits and the poles will show it.

How long will it take the Lib/Dems to realize that they are breaking many promises on accountability and transparency? How can one be an obstructionist if you are just trying to keep the Dems from breaking their promises?

How in the world is the stimulus making Obama stronger? The stock market has been crashing ever since he took the lead in the polls in September 2008. It was at 11,300 back then. Now it is getting ready to drop below 7,000 headed for 5,000. This guy is a train wreck. There is ZERO confidence in his administration from Wall Street to Main Street. Jimmy Carter II, indeed.

“And now there’s Obama, who’s made reaching across party lines a point of principle in his presidency” What policy evidence is there that he done so? The tax cuts were actually transfer payments.

Ken:”How long will it take the Lib/Dems to realize that they are breaking many promises on accountability and transparency? ”
About as long as it will take Republicans to realize the level of accountability and transparency is unprecedented and is second only to Obama’s own rhetoric. When his second executive order is to order his Administration “The presumption of disclosure should be applied to all decisions involving FOIA” and EVERYONE agrees this is a major change from the prior administration, most of his supporters see him moving towards achieving his rhetoric.

By the end of his four years the only way out will be the fair tax. Creating the largest transfer of power from government to the people in human history – THAT is why politicians and they’re little sheep HATE it. Maybe this disaster that is about to unfold will be a blessing in disguise. HR-25

“And Obama, in our poll, gets credit for seeking compromise in a way the Republicans in Congress don’t.”
Anyone seen this “seeking compromise” because I haven’t seen any yet.

“Poobah of Polling”? Well, when will the poobah begin to predict our child president’s great fall? The National Institute of Health did studies of mariajuana users a few years back. The studies revealed that youthful abusers of the weed had arrested maturity levels at the time they abused. I’m thinking that our child president used the stuff from about 17 years old to 22. It is patently obvious to me that our president is operating at that maturity leve. OK, poobah, does that help you with any predictions?

RET jr.: “I am more and more convinced that those of us who produce to support you miserable looters need to simply stop and allow you to freeze in the dark.”
It was an amusing work of fiction, not a new bible. Those of use who produce in the real world – the engineers, inventors, and creators – are hoping the stimulus bill gets the economy moving again and the TARP funds directed at stabilizing the housing result in a controlled landing. But you can keep waving your little flag, it may be utterly useless but if it makes you feel better go for it.

Caring about Wall Street’s reaction is what got us into this mess. Obama did not create the financial crisis and he certainly will not cure it in one month or even one year. If you are Republican just vote for your guy in 2010 and your girl in 2012. When your team loses once again you can blame the media and Hollywood….again. Eventually, however, you will learn that governing is not easy and not everything Limbaugh and Hannity claim is accurate or in fact even honest. Until then, hole up in your cave with your non-perishable items until Obama can clean up 8 years worth of Republican incompetence.

And just think, these are the hyped numbers from the most liberal biased media group in America. If they can’t pull off better numbers than this, then Obama is seriously screwed.

Huh? And now there’s Obama, who’s made reaching across party lines a point of principle in his presidency, with little to show for it so far.
The very first major Bush bill was authored by Ted Kennedy. Truly bipartisan. Obama to the GOP? ” I WON” . So Gary take your Biased Partisan Reporting elsewhere.

How can someone not like a thief that steals from someone else for them. This is the mentality of the the baby factory in Kalifornya. Liberals are like that!

The old adage “The bigger they are the harder they fall” will most assuredly apply to Barack Obama. Raised by his fanatic supporters to Olympian heights the reality will be more plebian and disappointment will quickly set in. This massive infusion of stimulus money will come at a high price for the future economic stability of the United States and will result in crushing debt, inflation and economic stagnation. Afganistan will prove to be his Vietnam, sucking away millions of dollars and the lives of thousands of Americans.
The American people reacted emotionally to trumped up fears in 2008 and elected a socialist with virtually no executive or business experience and will inevitably pay for it in the end.

Having created the subprime crisis by insisting we give home loans to people who can’t afford it, then ruining the auto industry with a pseudo-scientific environmental crusade against carbon dioxide, Democrats now insist they can fix everything with higher taxes and more government. Yes We Can!
Meanwhile, the productive half of the economy seems to have responded to Obama’s election by moving to Galt’s Gulch.

A more interesting pole would be approval rating by education and income levels. People with their “hands out” and “limited” education probably have the highest approval rating.

Our new Messiah has proven to be the same as previous presidents. Nothing new. No change. Corruption and partisian as usual.
What happened with his being open to Republicans? He, Pelosi and Reid shut them out. OK, that promise proved to be false.
What about his Tax Cheat nominees. No change there. Same lack of ethics Bush had.
OK he promised no pork in the huge spending bill. That didn’t happen.
He promised America would have a transparent and open government. We’re still waiting. What about letting us see the spending bill before it passed? NOT! Not even the democrats got to see it first! Nobody even read it before it was passed.
So far, I’m still waiting but I won’t wait much longer before I join the ranks of those demanding change.

Seeryer – If you honestly think that only the Bush administration and/or republicans are responsible for this mess, please go do some research. Until then, leave the honest discussion and debtate to the adults.

Me:”JHW – Glad to know you took a poll of all the engineers, inventors and creators”
I NEVER said I took a poll, I provided my opinion (as an engineer, married to a computer PhD with a number of patents, and friends with dozens of other white collar producers). But if you believe “Atlas Shrugged” is a robust work of political analysis, then I suppose I should have known how susceptible you were to exaggerating literary claims and then believing your own fairytale.

Name another President who in his first month on the job got such an important piece of legislation through? The answer is none. The other Presidents got average ratings for doing nothing to offend anyone. Obama acted boldly and upset some people. Viewed in the proper context, his approval ratings are astronomically high.

Carter and G.H.W. Bush had 1-month poll ratings above Obama. Reagan, Clinton and G.W. Bush had ratings under Obama’s. If I were Obama, I’d rather be with the three 2-term presidents and the two 1-termers.

jhw539, good luck fighting the loons! I used to think this was a forum where we could have rational debates. I have long realized that the lunatics needed places to fume since Obama’s election. Every now and then I drop by to have a laugh. It’s so sad that some with rational and sound reasoning choose to stay and fight. I don’t think you’ll have much success but I admire your courage.

Obama offers change that I personally can’t and don’t believe in.

At this juncture in history, the Biblical anti-christ would be preferable as president than Obama. With the anti-christ at least we’d know what we were dealing with and have hope that his reign would only be three and a half years.

The only ones who will be emotionally effected by Obama’s performance are his pathetic depressed worshipers and the idiotic scandal searching Republicans. For the rest of us, Obama is meeting our expectations. Obama will never be a great or horrible president, just mediocre. He’ll probably average around the 50s for the next 4 years unless he does something stupid like invade another country.

Obama is still a community organizer. He’s still making campaign speeches and giving dog-and-pony shows. We’re in a crisis and he’s spouting doom and gloom. Where’s the leadership? What happened to the “HOPE” that he campaigned on? He signed a social bill that won’t help ‘stimulate’ the economy except for the individuals directly affected (field mice in San Francisco)! Where’s the President of the U.S.? Not the World, but the U.S.? He’s so busy spending our money and spewing gloom so we’ll all buy his story and sending the stock market to new lows. This is HOPE? He doesn’t know what he’s doing – he’s still in the mindset of a community organizer.

Now that the historical election and inauguration hsve occured, can we get BHO to move on and have someone who knows what he’s doing step in to run (not ruin) our country?

Everone, please. It’s “POLL” not “POLE.”

D – Sure you want an honest debate. Let’s start one. Apparently you think only those who agree with you are capable of factual debate. Not much of a debate.

Notice how self hating liberals feel better about themselves now that we have an Affirmative Action President!

Traditionally, whenever our shadow-government-chosen leaders start to lose popularity the globalists stage a ‘false flag’ or the puppet themselves create a pretext for war to make the people pliable as we continue to march to a one-world fascist dictatorship. If you let this comment though, you stand with the people, if not, well you endorse feeding and injecting children with mercury, the militarization of the world, war, torture and total loss of freedom and grandma’s 401k.

I am a schoolteacher, and I heard some children singing (to the tune of Oscar Meyer bologna):
“Oh…
…Barack Obama has a way
of messing up the U.S.A.”

I was looking at the responses here and couldn’t find ONE that even came close to fully agreeing with the author. I realize dissenting opinions generally are higher but not practically all. It gives me pause to wonder whether the American people were polled or only the people at that ABC news location. Maybe they polled MSNBC alone to get such high numbers. Sorry, I just don’t see it from out here in the midwest.

How long will it take for the Democrats to realize that Obama’s policies are a disaster and trying to cure a debt problem with more debt is just crazy?

Me:”Doesn’t look to me like you were trying to say that you, your wife and your friends think this is a good idea.”
Then you have pretty poor reading comprehension, surprising considering the level of literature you seem to enjoy.
“I am willing to bet that you do have friend that think this is a horrible idea but are afraid to speak up.”
My father has no problem speaking up and I frequently enjoy hashing over the facts and history with him. (He won’t say for sure, but last election I think he wrote in Ron Paul as the only vote in favor of ‘actual conservatism’ he could make.)
“Did you know there are a whole bunch of economists that think this will sink us? Since I don’t know them personally, I will have to assume that some of them hold PhD’s as well.”
And many think this bill is necessary and, if anything, too small. At least a couple of those have PhD’s and noble prizes in economics. (I have not found any noble prize winner in economics against the stimulus, but only a couple appear to have gone on record.)

Just rememer, 40 billion dollars for ACORN in the stimulus joke. ‘Nuff said about Obama.

Bill Clinton passed around a 450 billion stimulus package after first taking office. Republicans all voted against it, said it would lead to the end of the economy as we know it, was was destined to fail. Last I check the Clinton economy was very productive overall, creating quite a few jobs and the money invested from that stimulus helped in many ways make computers and the internet readily available. Fastforward to now and a much large financial crisis that requires a bigger response and again the Repub rhetoric is exactly the same. They had 8 years to try their top down tax cuts and the experiment failed and helped to create a huge deficit. Had Bush Jr. truly ever made the tough decisions he would have repealed his tax cuts to fund his wars, just like his father did during the Gulf War.

i can not trust this poll, i have seen to much biased. i mean why would i believe a poll done by ABC (have to admit this one least biased) CNN, NYT, NBC that shows Obama has high rating. for all i know the poll was done by only people who voted for Obama.

Dumbobama, is a disgrace to America. The people that voted for this clown are complete Morons. We need to vot out all these leftist, Socialist Anti American Politicians.

Posted by: jhw539 | Feb 24, 2009 3:21:42 PM I suppose you’re one of those folks who insisted that McCain was going to win in a landslide right up to November…
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No! But, it still doesn’t help the POTUS what my opnion was when he was running for Office. The fact is, his approval rating is much less than its being reported — my only point.

Read what Rupert Murdoch said today and heed his words. He has told the truth. You folks have no idea what is about to happen here in the US and those that do are scared out of their minds…

I love how the very same people that were complaining about Bush’s spending is now backing Obama 90% for his far worse spending!
I voted for Obama because he was going to go through the budget with a scalpel and cut useless spending programs. OBAMA LIED! – He actually passed a package that will ADD MANY MORE USELESS SPENDING PROGRAMS!
The 90% that are supporting Obama are hypocrites! Just because Bush was spending like a mad man doesn’t make it right that Obama does!
signed – the 10% that are not happy with their vote!

me:”But Rick – the midwest is flyover country. We in the midwest do not count. We’re those “bitter clingers” remember, so what we think cannot possibly be in the best interest of this country or even valid. ”
Um, we just elected a midwesterner to be president. Last time I hung out in IL, it was still considered the midwest (even by my buddy in IN I was on the way to visit).

Iwasduped,
Apparently you never actually paid attention to what Obama said. For the most part I believe he has been consistent with his campaign promises. He said during the campaign he would pass a stimulus plan almost immediately, with spending and tax cuts for the middle class….He did that. He has been talking in recent days about after the economy has recovered to get back to fiscal responsiblity. These two ideas are contradictory only to those in a strict, unbending ideology. There should be flexibility in response during times of crisis and discipline on spending during good times. A rigid ideology does not allow one to adapt to changing conditions and roll with the punches. Obama seems to have a short term goal of stimulating the economy followed by a long term goal of stabilizing our deficit. Clinton did a similar thing shortly after taking office and had budget surpluses by the end.

ABC news poll? Puh-leeze. The “pollsters” is just the guy the “journalist” passes the bong to as they giggle like schoolgirls over the snow job they are pulling on the unsuspecting public.
The partisan divide will become plainly evident when the royalty see shrinking tax revenue as more and more people choose to take care of their own affairs rather than ride the ship of state to the bottom.
I am John Galt.

jhw: “I am willing to bet that you do have friend that think this is a horrible idea but are afraid to speak up.”
My father has no problem speaking up and I frequently enjoy hashing over the facts and history with him. (He won’t say for sure, but last election I think he wrote in Ron Paul as the only vote in favor of ‘actual conservatism’ he could make.)
I wasn’t talking about your father, I was talking about you, your wife and your friends. Those were the people you brought up. I will clarify so there is no longer an misunderstanding….I am sure there are FRIENDS OF YOURS that do not agree with you. I would hope you can have a civil enough conversation with your dad so that you can discuss these things.

jhw – Oh come on….Chicago doesn’t count as the “midwest”. ;-) The previous statement is what is called a “joke”. Just so there is no confusion.

student: That concept was pretty nicely examined in Touqueville’s Democracy in America in 1835, if by ‘eerily relevant’ you meant ‘followed up on and abandoned as inaccurate a century and a half ago.’
The expectation by people who shared Tyler’s philosophy was that America would not last a generation. After it did, they accepted they were obviously wrong and worked to define why. Democracy in America is a dry but intriguing read, I highly recommend it.

SoCal,
I happen to be an engineer, but I don’t depend on the government.
Yes; Atlas Shrugged is a novel, but incredibly powerful and telling in today’s society – especially given the fact that it was written in 1957!
It is absolute rubbish to depend on the government to stimulate the economy. Creativity and capitalism have worked in the past and are the ONLY thing that will turn us around. The simple fact of the matter is that government is the problem.
I do more than wave my little flag, I barter whenever possible and chose whenever possible to trade with my kind in the hope that we can starve this terrible beast called the Government.
I reiterate:
Who is John Galt?

I seem to remember Bush trying to reach across the asile but without the glowing write ups. Viewing movies with Ted Kennedy. Letting Ted Kennedy usher in the No Child Left Behind act…etc.. ‘New Tone’ I believe Bush WH tried to call it. Press and Dems bit his hand.

All,
Forgive my incorrect salutation. I was off by one.
Mea culpa.
WIJG?

EXCELLENT! – BlofeldBuildings

It’s plain to see that the media is sure impressed but then the have to be to avoid the embarrassment of the truth.

RET jr.:” Creativity and capitalism have worked in the past and are the ONLY thing that will turn us around. The simple fact of the matter is that government is the problem.”
No kidding. Look at the disaster that grew out of that government boondoggle ARPAnet. Or the curse to humanity municipal sanitation and universal education is. And don’t even get me started on the economy-crippling effects of an interstate highway system or enforceable business contracts, I’m still morning the loss of smallpox due to The Government’s nasty, brutish and short nature!

OK kless, I want you all to divide up into groups and take a piece of poster paper and, after discussing how wonderful my ideas are, summarize your discussion and be prepared to present your ideas. Mr Rangel and Mr Frank, you have to share and stop sniffing the markers. Mr Scheumer please don’t draw any more pictures of yourself. Now everybody think a happy thought and agree with me. Obama koolaid tastes good. Are all my friends in the press getting this?

37% of republicans approve. The smart ones. The obstructionists are represented by such people as Bunning and Cornyn and they are purely a negative force. Just look what they think of each other-how could they possibly favor Obama?!…”“I don’t believe anything John Cornyn says. I’ve had miscommunications with John Cornyn from, I guess, the first week of this current session of the Senate,” Bunning said, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. “

Mike_C: You quoted my post, but don’t seem to have read it. My WHOLE POINT was that Obama was NOT achieving his own promises – but Obama is far exceeding the performance of previous administrations in this regard (certainly including Clinton, who wasn’t exactly open to FOIA public oversight), and I cite an actual documented action in support of this opinion.

Such negativity…it is amazing to see how everyone expects Obama to clean up our nation within days. How many of you voted for our last two elected Presidents??? They brought us to this point. Accountability???? Our nation in genral lacks in accountability,from raising our children to our work ethics. Let’s give him a little more than 30 days to make a miracle because that’s what we need!!!

PREDICTION: Below 50% by summer. A growing number of people are past the euphoria and are beginning to realize that this guy is not ready for Prime Time.

I don’t know where they got these numbers. Impeach Now!

Obama is NOTHING except a decent speaker. He is not even a great speaker. He talks as if he is highly confident and knowledgeable in all areas. He is a perfect example of “Jack of all trades and master of none.” He will prove himself to be just as average as all presidents when he does nothing.

Well, I did not vote for Obama, I had my doubts and still do.So far he gets an F! He talks good, he gets an A!!! Uses up alot of T.V. time, like everyday, then the markets go down. Gives away alot of money, which I would like some for me. So, his cabinet, came from the swamplands of Illinois….Like don’t pay your taxes, and receive a cabinet post! And on, and on! So we shall see, but things not looking to good. Never judge a book by its cover.

Hasn’t anyone noticed the noticeable absence of that goofy looking smile of Nancy Pelosi? She is quietly waiting for her dear BHO to save the nation. It’ll be a long wait, Nancy.

From me the O gets a zero approval rating. He is the biggest crook of all.

I love the way the MSM can ask poll questions to get their desired results! Why don’t you take polls that actually give the pollee a real choice of answers? I travel around the southeast, meet many people, and have yet to talk with anyone that would give Obama a positive rating. Unfortunately, the MSM have either bought into Obama’s rhetoric or are very afraid of him!

Average Joe: That would also mean that no matter what, there is a certain percentage that will never say a democrat is wrong, so you would have to figure that in as well. Let’s call it a wash.

First of all your statement that Obama has reached across to Republicans is not true. Remember his response to the Republican Congressman who asked for a little compromise? He said “I won, I’m the President”. The Republicans were shut out of the “stimulus” bill and if it wasn’t for 3 traitors they could have blocked it and THEN gotten some “bi-partisanship”. If Obama continues on this path to destroying this country look for a march on Washington by this summer at the latest which will shock the world.

After I read the headline today: “House Democrats propose $410B spending bill”, I quickly realized this guy is going to flame-out a lot sooner than even I thought.

polls? you can do anything with statistics to prove whatever point you want to prove.
fact remains that the President is in over his head; does not have economic knowledge and those he has chosen in his cabinet are making a royal mess of the economy.
fact remains that the Democrat controlled Congress has joined kindergarten and put their Christmas wish list into action in all the legislative action that has taken place since they took control of Congress and have made a mockery of things since Obama took office.
Do I have confidence in the President…not sure…he is too busy trying to please people, look good and does not have a clue about economics or statesmanship.
I have less confidence in Congress; I see the members of Congress as self-serving and arrogant and not working in the best interest of the nation. This has gone on for years and is getting worse.
do I trust a poll run by any media group…nope

I think I’ll buy stock in whatever company manufactures prozac. There are going to be alot of mighty depressed Obama supporters coming up in the near future.

After the Carter years, the pundits big question was “Will the Democrat Party survive?” Now the question is “Will the Republican Party survive?” Politics tends to be cyclical and this is an off year for Republicans. Just 14 years ago, the Democrats had an off year. That’s life!

Obama is pulling this country back from the brink that George Bush pushed us to. Bush squandered a $450 BILLION budget surplus given to him by Clinton, and turned it instead into a $1.2 TRILLION deficit. The Republicans know that Obama is doing the right thing to turn the economy around and the only option they have to avoid losing almost every seat they have left in the 2010 elections is to obstruct Obama’s recovery efforts as much as they can.

After the Carter years, the pundits big question was “Will the Democrat Party survive?” Now the question is “Will the Republican Party survive?” Politics tends to be cyclical and this is an off year for Republicans. Just 14 years ago, the Democrats had an off year. That’s life!

The key number to watch isn’t Republican support for President Obama – it is the Independents support. You’ll notice in the first term numbers presented, the average approval tracks within 4 percentage points of the Independent approval rating.
Although it would be devastating for Democratic approval of the President to drop, the first real warning signs of trouble for President Obama would be shown by a drop in the Independents’ support. Which is not surprising, considering it was Independent voters that elected him and to whom he will answer in 2012.

“ever since he took office the stock market has been going down”. I have a questions for everyone who reads this. “Dose anyone here thinks that John McCain and Sarah Palin would have done a better job that Obama is doing right now?” his not perfect, nobody is, but i would be teriffied if McCain was in office now, with VP Palin

Chanakya – Bush did NOT have a surplus when he came into office – this is an oft repeated but incorrect statement – there was a projected surplus, but Bush took office with a SIX TRILLION DOLLAR deficit. Even Clinton said this during an interview last week. The projected surplus was wiped out by 9/11. The deficit was EIGHT TRILLION when the Democrats took over Congress six years later. It was Eleven Trillion just 2 years later. And is now Thirteen Trillion. So Bush/Repubs ran the deficit up two trillion in 6 years and the Dems ran it up five trillion in four years. BTW, I am not a Republican I am an Independent. But lets keep the numbers straight.

“What kind of welfare are was the pole take in? No one other than socialist or idiots like Mr. Obama. He is a total looser.
Posted by: RIP | Feb 24, 2009 2:37:20 PM”
pretty much says it all, i think. oh, and that the dems have even larger polling advantages over the repubs than they had during the campaign. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
there are way fewer people around now who need to depend on being white to have a competitive advantage in the marketplace. and youngster today are waaaaay less racist than their parents. what else does the GOP (gang of perverts) have to look forward to?

I’m another independent who is firmly behind Obama. Republicans seem to be fighting political battles via talk radio while Obama is actually working towards righting our ship. I voted McCain but now am happy to have Obama.

FAIR TAX!

Countess Bella Pelosi had a 2 year head start with Congress to get us to this point. It didn’t just happen overnite. Whatever good intentions Obahma ‘might’ have will be lost with this Congress.That’s about as close to a ‘Get Out Of Jail Free card’ as Obahma
could get out of me to this point.About time to March on D.C. while we still have a car and gas.FAIR TAX

Yep, I can honestly say I have Never seen America so divided, and in 6 months I am sure we will be even more so, this is not a uniting president. He has an agenda and its only going to get worse, much worse.
How to start each day with a positive outlook:
1. Open a new file in your computer.
2. Name it ‘Barack Obama’.
3. Send it to the Recycle Bin.
4. Empty the Recycle Bin.
5. Your PC will ask you: “Do you really want to get rid of ‘Barack Obama?”
6. Firmly Click ‘Yes.’
7. Feel better?
GOOD! – Tomorrow we’ll do Nancy Pelosi

All these people with there negative attitudes against President Obama are those same kind of people you can never satisfy no matter what you do. They already had made up there minds that they would have nothing good to say about our new President. Thank you President Obama for the positive changes you are making!

Where was John McCain these last 8 years when W was spending trillions of dollars in IRAQ. Talk about wasteful spending. He didn’t say one word and now the stimulus is wasteful?
He is as hypocritical as the rest of the Reporkculan party.
You just can’t stand it. Get over it or 2010 will be even worse. GET ready Poor old RUSH LIMPBAUGH is going to blow a gasket and I can’t wait.
All Republicans are HYPOCRITES

Who really cares what the Religious Right Republicans think? They have proved themselves as deluded and under-educated incompetents over and over. And they had the chutzpa to try and foist the senile McCain and vacuous Palin on the rest of us decent and moral Americans. Republicans – you have truly earned my deepest disrespect.

“And the projected surplus was roundly touted by President Bush (check out his first press conference) as the justification for his tax cuts – don’t you remember “This isn’t a surplus, it’s the taxpayer’s money – give it back”? It was a popular one-liner from the right for quite a while and used to justify the $300 refund checks. Sent out while our *debt* was in the trillions despite a few years of surpluses. ”
Yeah, I’ve never understood that argument. I would have thought the fiscally prudent thing would have been to pay some of the national debt down (which would save a nice bit of change on the interest payments). It is sad that the only time the government can seem to balance the budget (or have a budget surplus) is during economic booms, and even then they can’t address the national debt.

Well Well.. no surprise here that the lefty ABC has him above 65% when other polls have him down at 60%. Lets face it this guy is going to run our country into the ground and all you who like him well.. we will see once he labels you rich and tells you to pay more so he can spend more!.. …

At what point will B.O. and his buddies own this economy and not blame it all on Bush? 2010? 2012? The economy had a cut on it’s finger and these guys immediately performed open heart surgery; it looks like the patient (us!) will be in the ICU for a long time. Ultimately, things will right themselves but not because of government intervention! B.O., Pelosi and Reid should all be ashamed of themselves for saddling my children with this huge burden of debt.

Was this article really worth writing who cares really?! Maybe I should be a journalist for abc an make 6 figures a year to write meaningless articles!

TeddyV,
Look up your facts before you accuse me of lying. In 1993, shortly after taking office, Clinton pass a $496 billion stimulus and deficit reduction program in response to the recession at the time. This happened, there are republican quotes talking about, there were news stories about it, and you can look up the resolution if you both to take the time before declarning me untruthful. Clinton passed this plan without a single republican vote, with most republicans saying back then what most republicans say now about Obama’s plan. My point is that the economy did well under Clinton, and that Obama’s plan is not without precedent in the modern era.

Sarah @ 5:03:
First off, two wrongs don’t make a right. If you think the Iraq War was unnecessary spending that’s fine, but that mean you give dems a free pass to spend TRILLIONS on whatever they want? Please go a read the bill that our elected representatives didn’t have the time to read and then tell me that all the pork spending in this bill is necessary.

For Pete’s sake!! What has he done????
The Obama Democrats: By The Numbers
$34,000: the amount of federal taxes that Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner (D) failed to pay during his employment at the International Monetary Fund despite receiving extra compensation and explanatory brochures that described his tax liabilities.
$75,000: the amount of money that the head of the powerful tax-writing committee, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), was forced to report on his taxes after the discovery that he had not reported income from a Costa Rican rental property. His excuses for the failure started with blaming his wife, then his accountant and finally the fact that he didn’t speak Spanish.
$93,000: the amount of petty cash each Congressional representative voted to give themselves in January 2009 during the height of an economic meltdown.
$133,900: the amount Fannie Mae “invested” in Chris Dodd (D-CT), head of the powerful Senate Banking Committee, presumably to repel oversight of the GSE prior to its meltdown. Said meltdown helped touch off the current economic crisis. In only a few years time, Fannie also “invested” over $105,000 in then-Senator Barack Obama.
$140,000: the amount of back taxes and interest that Cabinet nominee Tom Daschle (D) was forced to cough up after the vetting process revealed significant, unexplained tax liabilities.
$356,000: the approximate amount of income and deductions that Daschle (D) was forced to report on his amended 2005 and 2007 tax returns after being caught cheating on his taxes. This includes $255,256 for the use of a car service, $83,333 in unreported income, and $14,963 in charitable contributions.
$800,000: the amount of “sweetheart” mortgages Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) received from Countrywide Financial, the details for which he has refused to release details despite months of promises to do so. Countrywide was once the nation’s largest mortgage lender and linked to Government-Sponsored Entities like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Their meltdown precipitated the current financial crisis. Just days ago in Pennsylvania , Countrywide was forced to pay $150,000,000 in mortgage assistance following “a state investigation that concluded that Countrywide relaxed its underwriting standards to sell risky loans to consumers who did not understand them and could not afford them.”
$1,000,000: the estimated amount of donations by Denise Rich, wife of fugitive Marc Rich, to Democrat interests and the William J. Clinton Foundation in an apparent quid pro quo deal that resulted in a pardon for Mr. Rich. The pardon was reviewed and blessed by Obama Attorney General and then Deputy AG Eric Holder, despite numerous requests by government officials to turn it down.
$12,000,000: the amount of TARP money provided to community bank OneUnited despite the fact that it did not qualify for funds, and was “under attack from its regulators for allegations of poor lending practices and executive-pay abuses.” It turns out that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), a key contributor to the Fannie Mae meltdown, just happens to be married to one of the bank’s ex-directors.
$23,500,000: The upper range of net worth Rep. Allan Mollohan (D-WV) accumulated in four years time according to The Washington Post through earmarks of “tens of millions of dollars to groups associated with his own business partners.”
$2,000,000,000: ($2 billion) the approximate amount of money that House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-WI) is earmarking related to his son’s lobbying efforts. Craig Obey is “a top lobbyist for the nonprofit group” that would receive a roughly $2 billion component of the “Stimulus” package.
$3,700,000,000: ($3.7 billion) not to be outdone, this is the estimated value of various defense contracts awarded to a company controlled by the husband of Rep. Diane Feinstein (D-CA). Despite an obvious conflict-of-interest as “a member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband’s firms .”
$4,190,000,000: ($4.19 billion) the amount of money in the so-called “Stimulus” package devoted to fraudulent voter registration ACORN group under the auspices of “Community Stabilization Activities”. ACORN is currently the subject of a RICO suit in Ohio.
$1,646,000,000,000 ($1.646 trillion): the approximate amount of annual United States exports endangered by the “Stimulus” package, which provides a “Buy American” stricture. According to international trade experts, a “US-EU trade war looms”, which could result in a worldwide economic depression reminiscent of that touched off by the protectionist Smoot-Hawley Act.
It’s not just a culture of corruption. It’s a culture of corruption and stupidity. And, unlike Republicans, Democrats appear to be above the law. All of the aforementioned clowns are still in office, ruling like the royalty they’ve become.
For those of you who are wondering ..”Is that All?” .. we did leave out Bill Richardson and Sen Burris since their cases have yet to be resolved, but folks, how would you sum up this garbage??

Most of the conservatives blogging here are no different than Rush limbaugh. The really want Obama and America to fail for no other reason other than Obama doesn’t play for their team. And they will interpret anything and everything Obama does as a failure, regardless of the facts. People are putting the same type of zealousness into political partisianship as they do towards rooting for their favorite sport team.

Dear Racist Jon, learn to spell. Your lack of intelligence is showing and it’s not that pretty to look at.

Christopher:”until Mr. Obama releases a ‘vault copy’ of his original birth certificate for public review”
Until I get a vault copy of your birth certificate, I don’t think you have any standing to claim to be a citizen.
Seriously, get a “vault copy” of your certificate. I think you get them at the same desk in charge of handing out unicorns.

It appears some of us are liking the bad times and gloom a little too much. Can you find anything in the last 30 days to feel good about? If not it will get much worse over the next 4 years. I really hope every single thing we knew as normal the last eight years will be turned on its head. I hope we have to take a new look at every thing we do in Washington and that the ways that are changed never come back I hated every moment of Bushes time in offices and am very glad it ended without any more harm being done.We need to be very careful going forward in whom we give so much power, it has been evil and I treasure every moment I have now to reflect on President Obamas efforts at reform.

Obama’s approval rating is only 59 percent (and sinking)? That doesn’t make sense. Americans voted RESOUNDINGLY for change last November. Liberal logic dictates that Obama’s approval rating should therefore be at 100% or higher. Obviously, the 41 percent that gave Obama a negative rating are either obstructionist Republicans, or brainwashed sheeple who listen to Rush Limbaugh. It certainly can’t be that people are starting to dislike Obama’s socialist ideas, because that would mean that they disapprove of MY ideas, and I’m smarter than they are.

Jess Said, “They say Obama is reaching out to the GOP. Really??????? Where????? Since when is “I won its my way” considered reaching out???????”
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Actually it was Pilosi who said that. Obama never did. Obama did reach out to the Reps when he went to the hill and the Reps sent out a notice to not deal with the President when he showed up. That is him reaching out and them not wanting to be seen with him. How is that bi-partisin on the rights part?

Sean @ 5:19 – I’m sure you would love it if everyone who disagrees with Obama’s policies thus far were right-wing republicans, but it is simply not true. Please explain to me how anyone could say that thus far his policies have not worked. The dow has gone down even further. Consumer confidence is lower. Housing has slid even more. This is an accomplishment?

How long will it take liberals to realize Obama is weaker thanks to the stimulus and that the public is souring on their socialist tendencies?

So if you use the logic / data model of this article, CARTER was the BEST.
He had the lowest difference between Democrats and Rupublican following and lowest for Independents adn Democrats.
So, what is the point of this data /article to indict Obama for what ????

What’s so eye opening about this? Those that voted for him have no idea what he stands for, and as a result we have had the WORST first 30 days in recent history. The only hope we have is changing the house in 2 years. Over 60% of the bogus SPENDING in this stimulus bill doesn’t happen until AFTER 2010. By that time those Americans that have a brain, will know that it takes more than being “black” to be elected president(as was the case this time around). We will have a HUGE mess in a couple of years, but just like Clinton’s big election…2 years later Gingrich swept in and turned everything around. Obama has done NOTHING as a president yet. The stimulus was written up by Pelosi and her ilk long b4 Obama was elected. He is simply their puppet, and it’s most embarrassing to even watch. He blames Bush for the deficit he was handed, but he had no problem ballooning it $750B in less than a month. The doom/gloom President has MUCH to do with the stock market today. He’s setting everything up to be so bad so when he fails he won’t have to take the blame. Hope for the best people…prepare for the worst.

Don’t you Republicans ever get tired of parroting every thing you hear coming out of Hannity, Limbaugh, and O’Reilly? Don’t you think for yourselves? You call the stimulus a pork-barrell spending bill because that is what Hannity, Limbaugh, and O’Reilly call it, when in actuality the earmarks account for a very small percentage of the overall package. You’re complaining of nickels and dimes in a thousand dollar budget. Most economists say we need a stimulus package and that, if anything, this stimulus package is too small. Listen to economists, not Republicans who pretend to know everything.

Regarding openness and Executive Orders – ‘The presumption of disclosure should be applied to all decisions involving FOIA’.
That presumptions does not seem to apply to the Mommy-Signed version of BS/BO’s Birth Certificate, his Passport records, nor his College Records.

I just want everything to keep going just as it is. Time will be on the side of those who take action and try to improve this mess. But it will not be oevr in the first 30 days it may take 30 years to undue this terrible mess I see that pretty clearly why do so many not seem to understand what is going on in America today. We are in deep serious trouble and bitching aint the answer.

Oh, is this for real?

Can’t we all just get along?
Apparently not.

The GOP are not for America but rather for themselves and they are power hungry. I saw on TV their three major objectives for the party and every objective was a sleazy way to bring Obama down. Not one thing on their agend had anything at all whatsoever to do with helping AMerica get out of this rut. It was pure Democrat bashing all the way. they will never have my vote and I wish them extinction – which they seem to be pretty good at.

How long will it take for the GOP to realize that Obama is stronger thanks to the stimulus and that the public is souring on their obstructionist tendencies?
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The GOP will finally wake up when they have lost EVERY election for the next 4 cycles. They’re still running around talking about “birth certificates”, for Christ’s sake. THAT’S HOW OUT OF TOUCH AND PATHETIC THEY HAVE BECOME.
If they continue on this same course, they will be insignificant by the next presidential election.

Do the Republicans know how to do anything other than criticize? I’m tired of hearing all these whiny Republicans complaining because they weren’t included in the formation of the stimulus package, whining because the stimulus package has a bit of pork in it, whining that there are not enough tax cuts in it, huffing about mortgage bailouts (but not huffing about bank bailouts), crying over the possibility of nationalizing banks (thats what happens when you ask the FDIC for help). Quit yer bitchin and come up with something creative! People have had it with a do-nothing congress that puts politics in front of people! The GOP is going to be known as the Grand Obstructionis Party and lose even more seats in 2010. Let it be written.

The disaster of the Obama administration during its first month was predictable, given President Obama’s past behavior. Most people took Obama on his word instead of looking at his record. The problem now is that those in delusion about this president may never change their opinion about him not matter how bad he is.
We have the malpractice of most of the media to prop him up and the brain-washed liberals who will never see any problems with a fellow liberal. We also have the double standards and rejudices against conservatives. Half of President Obama’s appointees would be in jail already if they were Republican, and Obama daily contradictions/hypocrisies would have destroyed anyone else.
We have not investigated the Congressional wrong doing in the mortgage crisis and the actions of the federal government so far are the worst medicine for a financial crisis. The only thing keeping me from despair is that the economy is not as depressed as it was under the Carter administration . . . but this administration could send it there.

arkie vet: The stats I just saw today put the ND at 12 trillion after this packeage went through. How can the stimulous package triple in cost under interest alone in two months. I doubt your math skills.
Also Clinton did bring it up over the whole 8 years…but for a couple of those years he didn’t add to it anymore. You are scewing the numbers to fit your arguement.

How long will it take for the GOP to realize that Obama is stronger thanks to the stimulus >>>>>> And the lies continue. We owe 6 trillion more. CBO said no stimulus and we would recover when? 2010.. The joke is somehow people think driving us deeper in debt is a good thing. Thats because non of you understand that being deep in debt effects everything.

What if anything does anyone believe that Obama says? His credibility is a mess. Transparent? No the Stimulus wasnt posted to a website nor was anyone allowed to go through it. How about a tax cheat in charge of the IRS.. ROFL. The list goes on. So democrats walk down the street going I got mine man. No job no future but I got my unemployment increase. I would feel better if they had a job.
OH but you would have to do things that are GOOD for business and investors to do that. LOL like that will happen. Crush Business NOW we all want to be unemployed living on borrowed money.

Considering that Obama spent more money to get elected than any other pres in the history of the world, and that he still has most of the MSM in the shilling for him, the poll numbers should terrify the pants off of hardcore Democrats.
After all that … it’s the best Obama can do. Like others have stated, he just missed the biggest gift ever offered to a new pres, a chance to rise above it all and offer real hope and change. Instead, America got the biggest pork barbecue in the history of the world.

Chuck S @ 5:21 “It takes about 18 months to a few years for policies put in place to take effect within the system. That being said, the strife we feel today is from policy put in place years ago under the Rep house and Sen and GW.”
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If I remember correctly the dems have had the majority for 24 months. And if you ever learned aything from school, you would know that the president doesn’t make laws or precure money, that honor belongs to the congress. And for those who berate talk radio, I remember numerous times that they did not agree with Bush, I can’t recall any prominate dem that does anything but agree with the top.

Those of you who keep defending Obama – did you read what ‘GrannyCares’ wrote. I want you to make statements regarding the facts. Go ahead tell all of us what you think about the FACTS ‘GrannyCares’ has stated. I dare you. All you do is mention Rush, Hannity, O’Reily etc. It makes me realize you have nothing to say regarding reality. Keep living your ‘Hope’.

And why is it that the NeoCons almost always refer to Obama as the Mesiah >>>> Its because he is treated as a GOD by all his supporters. You all seem to have so much blind faith in Obama. So he must be the Mesiah eh?

“How long will it take for the GOP to realize that Obama is stronger thanks to the stimulus and that the public is souring on their obstructionist tendencies?”
Considering the more informed people are of what’s in it, the less they support it, I don’t see the GOP taking any damage from this. In 2010, when the economy is in shambles due to the harebrained socialism of Obama, the GOP won’t be held responsible…at least, if Steele shows some backbone for once.

I think you’ll find that if the media actually played this empty suited charlatan fair the number of Ind. would drop dramatically. The media has all but played the Rep’s as obstructionists – that is a bunch of crap. There are a whole lot more than just republicans who have big problems with these spending bills, but the press isn’t really sharing that – they just keep doing the same thing they did during the campaign – ‘The messiah, his empty suitedness, Obama’. Disgusting and in my opinion TREASON!.
The American people have two very big problems; a biased, dishonest and agenda driven media and Congress!
TERM LIMITS!!!!!!!

McBain
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, the country is more divided than it has been in a long time. However, the is more partisan disapproval of Obama now. Why are they trying to spin it otherwise. He has divided our country.

Really, wouldn’t it be wise to try and support the President in these tough econmic times whether you voted for him or not. The fact is that the Rep. did not win the election and spending your time trying to down play everything the Dem and Obama does is just counter productive holisticly. We are in this position and I’m not even going to mention about the previous president………the people have spoken and one should put as much effort into trying their best to get through this as much as you are beating the stimulus, legislation, etc up!!!
Finally, in a marriage there are numerous things that you may disagree with but in the end the two should have a common goal even with your differences. Republicans………..very simple, its not our turn. Accept it and lets do our best to move out of this position instead of playing the blame game!!!!

The left crack me up….for 8yrs it was OK to dis Bush but now the shoes on the other foot the left start crying we need to give the O a break. Want to know why the right doesn’t like what O’s doing.. look at the countries over the big blue and see how it’s worked for them.

Why should Republicans support this president’s efforts? He is growing the federal government far beyond anything intended by the Framers, to the detriment of our general welfare; the stimulus porkfest and the inevitably resulting tax hikes are going to sink our economy, not stimulate it. Obama’s plan goes against all Republican principles, so Republicans cannot support it. Since when did dissent stop being patriotic?

Democrats have a vested interest in perpetuating an underclass, making people think that the rich are taking advantage and perpetuating racial disharmony. Those characteristics are what drive the common democratic voters. Without those people, democrats wouldn’t get elected because we would all be republicans resisting the government from “sharing the wealth.”
That is why democrats would rather bring the rich down rather than raise up the poor. That is the philosophy of “hope” rather than “results.” Give the masses just enough relief to give them a reason to hope, but DO NOT deliver the promised land, becasue the masses will become republicans. think about it.

Once the people realize they have been sold a “Bill of Goods” the approval ratings should go down. The favorable media support and the Class Warfare game got him into power but his ratings will be going down if he fails on many more of his promises. He can only blame Bush for a few more months before he is going to have to own the presidency, then we will see.

Class Warfare >> the typical way to drag down people who have made it so people who have not feel better. GREAT lets all be mediocre?

This reminds me of the 80′s when many left-wingers said they didn’t know anyone who voted for Reagan and yet he won 49 states in 1984. Only it’s in the reverse now.
News for right wingers & conservatives on this site: Obama got 8 million more votes than McCain. You’re in the minority. Your ideas were tested with GW Bush for 8 years. They stunk. You haven’t figured out any way to reach out to people except for aging white men. Look at the poll numbers objectively. 2/3 of the country approve of Obama – and can I add he has been President for one month – and 60% approve of the stimulus.
You can make valid arguments against Obama and/or the stimulus package but to somehow infer that at this moment in time, the majority of Americans agree with you, is ridiculous.

People are so angry with this mess our Country is in. Stop scaring the American people. We are strong we will pull through this awful mess. President Obama is trying to do his best give him time. Like others have said; on this site it took time for us to get into this mess and President Obama walked into it. Let’s have our dear old Senators and Congressmen take the party gloves off and start doing their jobs, work with this President. Then in four years put their gloves back on and fight party against party in the next election. American people want government to do their jobs.

To all of the parasites that are sucking the life blood out of this economy, when will you begin to support me?
I need to quit working too. Where can I send my bills too?

“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
- John Galt
I do not live for the poor or the liberals, only for the workers of the world

You might as well toss out the 12 years both of Bush’s. Especially Jr. They may have had an “R” behind their name but they sure as Hades are not conservatives. Not in a Jeffersonian sense of the word anyway.

The Republicans are “especially concerned about the ballooning deficit”? Since when? Oh wait- since January 20, 2009.
Seriously, how did you type that sentence with a stright face?

Wait until Obama’s high priced lawyers can’t block his college records anymore and what those records show. Maybe wasn’t born here? Maybe claimed Kenyan citizenship? What do you have to hide oh great Oz behind the curtain? Empty suit that will take our country down the path of socialism!!!

Kevin,
The “idiotic right wingers” are paying your bills right now. Without us, you may as well live in Bolivia.
By the way, everything we write is true. nananana boo boo.

Hey, I am a registered Rep. I will be going down to my town Hall and changing my party to Dem. I am ashamed of Bush. Give President Obama a chance it is only one month!! If President Obama would have sat back and did nothing you wing nuts would still complain. He has done plenty for one month in office. Let’s see if something here starts working. (Looking for Mr or Ms Perfect to run the United States of American) anyone out there?

I don’t believe the polls. As with most polls the are biased and not reflective of reality. Talk to the man on the street in fly over country, not the ignorant robots in NY or CA and you will see people who know we are heading down the wrong rode. Deficit spending and raising taxes will not bring us out of the mess. Socialism is a complete failure and will destroy this once great country.

Professor – surely you understand that Johnson and Ford were not elected as president when they first entered office. That seemed obvious – you must have missed it…

cd mitchell…touche!

kathy….registered republican…yeah right. if so so be it. i was a democrat until i saw how hilary clinton was cheated out of the nomination.i was a dem until i saw reverend wright and his hatred. i was a democrat until i saw a man rise to power who never earned a nickel from anyone other than a taxpayer.i was a democrat until i saw bamas tax plan last fall and finally i saw the seeds of socialism in this man,

I’m a Democrat because I’m way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.
I’m a Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I’ve decided to marry my horse.
I’m a Democrat because I be lieve oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn’t.
I’m a Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
I’m a Democrat because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.
I’m a Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop what they’re doing because they now think we’re good people.
I’m a Democrat because I believe that people who can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday CAN tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a
Prius.
I’m a Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as THEY see fit.
I’m a Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would NEVER get their agendas past the voters.
I’m a Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my ass, it’s unlikely that I’ll ever have another point of view.
“A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn’t own.”

Analyse, scrutinize and pulverize as you will….the bottom line is that the “jury ” is still out on Obama, and the prospects are very questionable. I personally think he should be on Ritalin or Prozac for his frenzied and manic obsession to “change the world” in 100 days. Perfect example of ADD! It took the Almighty “one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day” etc. Obama is using the “shot gun method” of change: shoot a blast and hope some bullets strike a target. And it will be the American people. The constant changing of plans, division among the suppporters, conflicting goals announced. All very unsettling. His constant speech-a-fying is a a reminder of his lack of any hands on experience. The “group-therapy ” session was truly adolescent, worthy of a junior high class counselor. but totally embarrassing for “leaders”. It was so condescending!! And the thousands of dollars spent on “gathering” useless infor and the cost of compiling the report is a perfect example of Obama’s immaturity in basic “cost of doing” issues. Only thousands? Well they do add up to millions, which add up to billions, which add up to trillions.

Obama polling is always going to be distorted because any blacks polled during his term are going to be uncritical no matter what the situation. The percentage of those questioned who identify as being black should be stated in any Obama poll so people can get a more realistic view of the results.
In fact, all Obama polls should be tabulated two ways, blacks included and excluded.

Jim In Chicago, thanks for that story.

I’m not a fan of socialist economics, giant government deficits, and the kind of fundamental dishonesty that goes along with tripling the budget and then immediatley claiming your goal is to cut it in half.
But undoubtably, the people new what they were voting for, they voted for the Deomcrats, they voted for a left-wing borderline communist president and they got what they voted for.
Blame Boehner and McConnell. The failure of this crop of republicans to carry on the ideals of Gingrich and Armey, to control spending and to constrain government while they controlled it led to this. They need to go.

House Democrats propose $410B spending bill
David Espo, AP Special Correspondent
Tuesday February 24, 2009, 8:50 am EST
Can you believe this………..

Americans need to be 110% electrified in total opposition to Obama and his traitor Democrat buddies. It is clear these people are hostile to what made this nation great, because they have soaked up campus idiocy and MSM foolishness to the point of no return. Democrats are dishonorable, accomplished Joseph Goebels-style liars; they mouths say one thing and their actions betell another, time and again. Americans need to start a political offensive and give no quarter until law and order in Washington are restored (honest Democrat appointees and congressmen can’t be found).

First of all if we learned anything from the last election is that our news media has mutated and come apart. So nothing in it can be taken seriously! Polls too should be viewed in the same vain — fun and games but the contents full of crap. It’s about what’s asked and how it’s disgorged back to the public.
Anyway, as a once fired up Democrat what I know is that I don’t recognize these neo-liberal obamabots. He’s an imposter “Savior” and they’re his empowered shock troops, and all the rest of us will pay a price for their entrenched and bottomless rancor and malaise.

The GOP has absolutely NOTHING of importance to contribute to how to run this country. They have proven over the last 8 YEARS that they are INEPT, and INCAPABLE of successfully running America.
After all of this mess that happened under their watch……..NOW they have all the answers.

“Travis”
I have to agree with you about McCain but Palin might have done better but not at the 2nd spot

We just all need the sweetheart deal old Barry Sotero got on his house in Chi-town…you remember, the one he got from Resnik?

Ray said, “The GOP has absolutely NOTHING of importance to contribute to how to run this country. They have proven over the last 8 YEARS that they are INEPT, and INCAPABLE of successfully running America. After all of this mess that happened under their watch……..NOW they have all the answers.
No, Ray. A lot of this mess started under Carter and Clinton, DEMOCRATS. The Republicans tried to fix it and were blocked by the DEMOCRATS.

it’s ironic when Reid became majority leader, Pelosi became speaker of the house, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd couldn’t regulate closing a car door and under this inept management the economy tanked.
I would be squaking about the last eight years being Bush’s fault, too.

How can I appprove of SNOBama? He is a wacko far leftist, and is spending my childrens and grandchildrens economic future. His “stimulus bill” is a PORK BILL FURTHERING DECADES OF LIBERAL AGENDA!
IMPEACH HIM NOW!!!!

Anyone else sad and scared?
Not about Obama, Reid nor Pelosi.
Neither about race nor party, but about having reached a sufficient number of dependent drones. We have acheived critical mass.
How can government’s expanding role in our lives be beneficial when freedom is the price paid for every benefit?
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“Yes we Can”– can you think of a more ironic campaign slogan? The bearer implies cheerful servitude in exchange for avoidance of risk, responsibility and mostly of reward.
Revise the Stimulus to 100 trillion,
complete the demise of this nation, and let us start over. Bring it all down.
Yes, we can.

I find the president’s talk of being post-partisan laughable in light of the intense ideological thrust of all of his actions, thus far, since his inauguration. The “Stimulus” bill was nothing but pure democrat pork and, of course, our mainstream media, has done absolutely nothing to spell out the truth of that fact. Our media, very sadly, only continues to be a public relations tool for Barack Obama.

You cannot be as ideologically as far to the left as Obama is and expect him to be a bipartisan uniter. That is utterly laughable and he is demonstrating almost daily that reality. The same would be the case for a politician to the far right.
Why would anyone with an ounce of common sense believe that Obama’s first month in office would have turned out any different than an exercise in on the job training. Wasn’t it Joe Biden who said the presidency does not lend itself to that. His resume revealed a total lack of experience governing anything or dealing with tough decision making and virtually no significant accomplishments. His main achievement has been to play the role of carnival barker pedaling the Pelosi-Reid porkulus bill which along with the other trillions in debt he is signing off on will spend us and our children into oblivion. Too many Americans rolled the dice last November and will now pay the price.

On average – he is average. Not a bad start, but not the “savior” that NBC/ABC etc… predicted he would be.
30 days on the job doesn’t make him a failure or a success, just new. I wish he would stop campaigning and start working on the bi-partisanship he talked about.
I think his approval ratings would go up if he could figure out a way to get a different Speaker of the House…..

This is payback time for Conservatives. Payback for 8 years of abuse heaped on our President. A brave, generous and strong man. A man, who ignored public opinion polls and did what was right and required. To defend the Country and to defeat the Islamics.
If you think we will give Hussein a pass – you are delusional. He will be burned, stabbed and pilloried by us just as viciously as you did it to our guy.
Payback is sweet and the Chimpanzee is ready to be brought down.

See Obama admin is not transparent
The say his last year in office he will cut budget debt 50% from the last year of Bush.
That means at least 800 billion debt!!!
And they forget to mention his first year will be higher than any year of President Bush.
How about a balanced budget!

hilarious how these Bushies want to mock Obama for clocking in approval ratings in the 60s — Bush had trouble cracking half of that throughout his entire second term. If he had 60% approval, you guys would have been rolling on the floor about it.

Did he really promise to cure cancer? Did he?
I can’t stand his speeches, not because they are bad, they are very good. The reason I can’t stand his speeches is because he talks like everythings going to be alright because he said so. He’ll say it’s not my fault its bad but it’s going to be good. He states it like it’s a fact and then promises a laundry list of stuff that he can’t possibly pull off.
This is why I couldn’t vote for him, beyond being unqualified in general. He’s not believe-able.

jbentley4:
His approval ratings are dropping fast..let’s wait and see, shall we? |

You are correct, the Dems ran the show for the last two years and they want to blame the Republicans. The thing that never comes up is the fac tthat Bill “wild man” Clinton was the one that deregulated the banking system that started this whole mess.

I would like to comment on some of the issues that were stated in our Presidents’ address to Congress dated February 24, 2009.
Hurrah for President Obama! Finally the pay of our soldiers will be addressed. Most of the soldiers that I have met, myself being the mother-in-law of an Army Sergeant, qualify for food stamps. That is scandalous. We don’t pay our soldiers enough to feed their children. This country should be made aware of this horrible state of affairs. Thank God that our President wants to raise the pay of our soldiers. They should, at least, be able to feed thier children if they are willing to protect our country.
I would also like to mention the problems with our healthcare system. Our government needs input from assorted hospital administrators. The hospital systems must remain privatized but most of the disfunctional hospitals and medical groups in this country are being destroyed by bad debt to illegal aliens and uninsured honest middle Americans who cannot afford health insurance the way that the insurance industry charges for individual healthcare insurance premiums.
It is against the law in the State of California to ask for proof of legal residency when an individual applies for welfare or any other service that is government run. I do not want my taxes to pay for the health costs of people who sneak into our country illegally. I don’t mind if it is one of our own citizens. It is criminal to do what many of the illegal aliens are doing, purposely. It is well known that if a woman is pregnant sneaks into the country and gives birth here, she will not be forced to go back home because her child is then a citizen, and so the cycle starts. Have a new child every 2 years so that each child can allow her to re-apply for services and collect benefits that are meant for our own citizens. I was a social worker for Los Angeles County and experienced the frustration of having my hands tied when I suspected abuse of our welfare system. Just one change in the law would save millions of dollars on the money that is paid for these people. It is not just for aid to families with dependent children (AFDC), it is also for individuals on general relief (GR). It is said that illegal aliens do the work that others do not want to do but that is not the truth. It is so very unfair to those who apply for VISA’s. Why should those who enter the country illegally not be forced apply for VISA’s? That is the law! If people who are taking applications for services would only be allowed to ask if a person is a citizen and may ask for proof of that, many will apply for thier VISA’s instead of sneaking into the country and costing tax payers millions upon millions of dollars and keeping the people who are citizens or aliens visiting legally from getting the few jobs that are available.
Mind you, our own soldiers who have a spouse and a couple of children (or perhaps more) usually cannot afford food, diapers and other normal expenses. These soldiers, in most instances, are not carrying a lot of debt.
Please, won’t someone pay attention to these issues?

Obama gets credit for ‘reaching across the aisle’ yet more Democrats voted against him than there were Republicans voting FOR him. Not a single headline made THAT the story. Obama’s ‘reaching’ across the aisle was basically to hold the GOP at arms length while Pelosi and Reid wrote the largest pork-laden spending bill ever even dreamed of. No GOP members in the conference committee and then a second conference ONLY between Nancy and Harry???
Obama has the largest majority he will ever see on his side of the aisle (and larger than anybody has for 50+ yrs) so he is making a mad dash to get in as much of the liberal utopia as he can before voters get a shot at those member of Congress.
Obama has not stopped campaigning yet. And he won’t likely stop. Ever. Campaigning and running for office is the only accomplishment he has on his resume. He did nothing in his last job before asking for the promotion. He did little of substance in that job prior to that. This is not the sign of a guy who gives a crap about ‘post-partisanship’ or bi-partisan anything. He is going as far to the Left as he can as fast as he can until there is some kind of checks and balance restored to the government. And that won’t happen for nearly 23 months. And in less than 30 days he has already spend $800B and proposed another $275B more and there in another $410B on the table in Congress PLUS whatever pork he promised tonight.
There is no enough money in existence amongst all the countries in the world to pay for all of the ‘responsibility’ Obama would like to impose on all of us. And there certainly aren’t enough rich people to tax to make the Federal Debt go back into the 10 digit range again.
Thank God he can do all this while taking the weekends off. Those are the only two days of the week that he isn’t appearing on TV. At some point, the rest of the country will end up joining the GOP in not wanting to see Him on TV every single day for a second year in a row. Unless you are in the Obama Cult, this is gonna get incredibly tiresome. Or we could just run out of money before that point comes. 6-5, pick em.

BTW, Gallup’s new poll has the Messiah’s approval rating down to just 59 percent.

Economy we inherited? Is everyone that dumb? Bush wasn’t good for conservitives in fact he wasn’t that conservitive, but the Dems in congress were there and in power the last 2 years. One man did not make the mess they all did. I will say this. If the stimulous works and Obama, reduces the deficit by 2/3rds in 4 years and doesn’t raise taxes. I will vote for him. I am pretty safe to say I won’t because he is just saying what everyone wants to hear. I am starting to believe he wants to destroy us. Thank you Obama. You will make us dream of the good years Bush created. And why doesn’t anyone mention what Carter did. Those were the worst times since the great depression. I look forward to the next Reagan to emerge.

You people are unravelling at the seams….so yeah…Palin and Mc Cain really presented a comprehensive reform package……the only thing sad about them winning would be the suffering of innocents….but some of you blue-collar union types even have the gall to vote for union-busters who outsource your work and destroy your unions and workers comp laws…we all know the true reason why you are so critical now but sat aside like mute lemmings when Bush destroyed the deficit, killed innocents and jacked the energy and oil industries with the closed door meetings….ya’ll are pulling off a serious act of denial trying to maintain true to the illusion of solidarity and nationalism the right bamboozles you into believing……what a word, bamboozled…..’sigh’…..YOU people are pathetic…

Using those numbers, that poll must include a sizable over-representation of Democrats, especially with the generic ballot numbers essentially even between the two parties.

“How in the world is the stimulus making Obama stronger? The stock market has been crashing ever since he took the lead in the polls in September 2008.”
And its tanked even further as a direct result of Obama’s lack of leadership and judgement. Everytime his administration comes out with a new statement, it drops another 400 pts.
But I guess thats Bush’s fault too…

There is one reason for Obama’s high approval numbers… BUSH… the most incompetent presidet of our times. Enabled by the Republicans who controlled congress for his first term and half of his second. Spending like druken sailors Somehow the Republican party doesn’t want to hear nor say the name BUSH. They pushed his policies for 8 years and now we are all paying the price for it. And now they want to blame the Democrats and Obama for the mess they created. They got us here and now we all have to pay the price to get us out. Patriotic … the Replublican machine is not. It is all about winning the power back. They had their chance and they screwed the entire system up. And now they want us to think they have a better plan. Oh, what is their plan???? John Mc Cain and Sarah… The people woke up to BUSH and the Replubican party. Now it is controlled by RUSH…. who also believed in BUSH. The Replublican party is the ones drinking the kool-aid. “Don’t give up.. BUSH shall rise again”

He’s going to cure cancer, too? Wow, no wonder he has worshippers.
Universal education? Does that mean he’s going to let all the suicide bombers’ families living in the ME come over to get universalized?
One thing Obama can count on is the stupid people in this country eat up everything he says and they believe it!

you guys all know we are on the same team right… maybe one day, you will get that…
Posted by: unity
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uh no, unity, I am not on the same team as the America haters and their affirmative action prez.

These comments by Republicans are pathetic.
You lost.
You got a Thumpin’ in 2006. Rove promised you he “had the math” and he was lying to you.
So you lost the Presidency, the House, and the Senate in 2008.
Do you understand?
YOU LOST.
Are you going to take even a moment to try to figure out WHY?
Or are you just going to use the next two years to come on the blogs and spew out your political vomit at the feet of the rest of us until the next election?
The very saddest part about the GOP these days is, they can only HOPE for failure for America for the next four years.
Truly pathetic.

Jan -
Your asserted that the GOP’s only hope is for America to fail over the next four years. Did you mean “hope for failure” that way that Dems/libs were hoping to lose Iraq for polical success as touted by your senate leader/idiot Harry Reid? Your hope during Bush’s term was dead Americans. Now define pathetic for us.

As more and more of the population begins to realize the extent of the economic peril this guy has put us in, the ratings will continue to drop. Interestingly, despite all the hype and hoopla from the media, most of the people I’ve met do not approve of this so-called stimulus bill and are angry that the public in general has so little input into what are ultimately OUR affairs. Jindal pointed out that the Republicans had lost their way and joined the big government, big spending team in DC. He’s correct. Those of us who voted for them were extremely disappointed and upset with their casual approach to spending other people’s money and their total deafness to our complaints and concerns. A major component in their losses came, not from the fact that everyone loved Obama, but from the fact that the opposing party had abandoned its principles. I hope someone in Washington develops some common sense before all is truly lost.

when will you realize we don’t care? you don’t need us and we sure don’t need you liberal, socialist ways, so stay in your rainbow dreamland with your savior, I will never agree with you, good luck with your country though

Obama is a media creation. The polls cited in this piece of propaganda are highly disputed by other polls which show obama has only an approval rating in the 40′s, and a disapproval rating in the 30′s. These are nearly unprecedented lows after a first month in a new administration. Whay are these ratings so low? Becuase people are beginning to see that obama was a bill of goods sold to them by the media. As the markets continue to react negatively to every socialist measure from the obama administration, and Americans find themselves more at risk by foreign enemies because the obama adminstration is weak, we will see his approval ratings continue to sink to jimmy carter levels and the misery index will drive the electorate back to its senses.

Well, when America as we used to know it no longer exists in 4 years, there is absolutely no doubt which party we will have to blame. No nation has EVER in the history of the planet taxed and spent itself to prosperity. RIP America. You will be greatly missed.

Dale! You Rock!

Economists do not like this
I’m no economist but obviously neither are you, nor is Peter Schiff…he’s a stock broker.
This economy has always been and always will be a blended economy or a Keynesian economy. Your attempt to equate that to socialism is disingenuous at best.

If you Republican bloggers can tell me of one Republican president who balanced the budget and left us with a surplus I will be happy to know who that is..As far asI know..there is none..I know of three Democrat presidents who did both. That speaks volumes of the the Republican fiscal policy..a load of crap..called trickle down economics..one of their very own called it voodoo economics. Republican praty is bad for this country..

Who are the idiots that think he’s doing the right thing with the economy? My god, this guy is will RUIN the economy. The problem here is they must be polling a bunch of uneducated fools.This country is our collective “home” and the goverment under Obama is “re-financing” it for an unsustainable lifestyle just like the stupid homeowners did. Millions wanted to live beyond their means and now so does the government. The taxpayers will become like the homeower who couidn’t afford to pay their inflated mortgage.The problem is, who is going to bail out the government??????????????????

Republicans are a disgrace to America! The last republican presient cheated and lied about WMD, spent billions on a needless war for personal reasons and tortured anti-humanely…let alone led the country into this economic mess!!! Now, you still have the cheek to comment.

If Obama was his hero FDR, He would stop the d-day invasion to negotiate with the “moderate” Nazi’s.

Wow, wading into this quagmire of negativity is almost surely a Republican enclave of disaffected sore losers. Look, it should be clear by now that Obama understands your pain and he is doing everything he can to accelerate the “ripping off quickly of the delusional bandage” Republicans have always offered to fix things. Let’s look at all the wounds of the last eight years headon and face the fact that America needs to grow up and stop panicing about showing a little social consciousness. A little empathy and support for each other goes a long way to providing some security for all in terms of health care, education and less military provocation in lands so far away.
It’ll be fine.. now get back to work, the election is over. ;-)

anyone who voted for bush twice or listens to bill o reilly really has nothing worth listening to your job is to yell louder and make total fools of yourself like that god awful PALIN