Pew: Obama’s Poll Numbers are Slipping

All the idiots who voted for him with their eyes closed will now see. No experience, talker.

I don’t think the White House is losing any sleep over their poll numbers. There are four long years to go till 2012, and the GOP is a sinking ship that is rudderless.

Well According to CNN His Poll Numbers are at about 62% Better then pathetic Republicans their Approval Ratings are slipping everyday!

Who cares what his poll numbers are at this point? It might be meaningful if the Conservative/Republican numbers were going up, although that’s not the case. He will be President for the next 4 years at least, so just learn to deal with it.

the rep will cry for the next 8 years . deal with it folks , he is the president of this country. bush messed the country up and u want obama to fix in 100 days? keep dreaming . please leave the country if u dont like what he is doing
Posted by: Smith | Mar 16, 2009 1:12:54 PM
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Well Mr Smith is yet another one of those tolerate progressives. You know the ones. They constantly tell everyone we must be respectful of the views of others. Unless of course you disagree with them. Then they tell you to get out of the country if you don’t like it.

he is a fraud and people are waking up. he would have won the election no matter who he ran against as they country was sick of chenny and bush. now we are growing sicker faster over this arrogant elitist shyster.

Hey, catman – Cheney and Bush weren’t running against him – McCain/Palin were. So why did Obama win? Maybe because he was the best man for the job, and much to your chagrin he is going to prove to be an excellent choice made by 65,000,000 American voters. He’s only been in office less than 2 months. Keep your pants on!

We had been warned that he’s a lot of talk and little action.

and the repukes continue to go whaa whaa

Well According to CNN His Poll Numbers are at about 62% Better then pathetic Republicans their Approval Ratings are slipping everyday!
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ANGIE IN PA ,
According to Rasmussen…..
Date 3/15
Presidential Approval Index — +4
Strongly Approve ————- 36%
Strongly Disapprove ———- 32%
Total Approve —————- 56%
Total Disapprove ————- 43%
Congressional Leaders
Nancy Pelosi
Favorable — 36%
Unfavorable — 53%
Harry Reid
Favorable —- 29%
Unfavorable — 42%
Mitch McConnell
Favorable —- 29%
Unfavorable — 31%
John Boehner
Favorable —- 26%
Unfavorable — 31%
Obama’s numbers are falling, and neither side of the aisle is really gaining the people’s confidence. However, Pelosi & Reids Negatives are much higher than Republican Negatives.

As long as the Republicans remain in the wilderness, the Democrats will be able to dictate policy at will. Wether it is poor or not.
The GOP is just as much to lame for abandoning it’s principles for votes, that there are no votes any more.
And a Democrat lite like McCain, Giuliani, Romney, and their ilk, will not cure what ails them…

Mike_C,
It is always foolish to make an argument based on public polls.
But it is dishonest to CHOOSE an outlier pollster like Rasmussen. Rasmussen’s polls had Obama 20 points where he actually was the whole campaign !

The politics of hope and change are now the politics of hopelessness and loose change in your pocket. That’s all you’re going to have after Obama is done.

OBAMA’S PRAYER
Our Obama, who art in Washington
Flip-flop be thy name.
They Presidency come, they will be done
In D.C. as it was in Chicago.
Please take away our daily bread
And raise our taxes
As we appease voters who want social services.
And lead us away from self defense
And deliver us from sovereignty.
For thine is the way of globalism
And the power of Socialism
Forever and ever,
Yes we can.

Lord,
Forgive Mary Ann S.
She has lost her moral bearings and it makes her feel powerful to offer child like insults.
YOU say “Heal the sick.”
Republicans say “Socialist”
YOU say “Feed the Poor.”
Republicans say “Trade our jobs to India and China and make us poor.”
YOU say “Let he who has committed no sin …”
Republicans say “Obama caused the financial meltdown in September of 2008!”

Excuse me DAVID…but there is no reason to call anyone an idiot for voting for someone they truly believed could make a difference. Those who utilize the right to vote should not be insulted. We are not mind reader’s. Nor do we have ESP. We vote the best we can with the information we have and that’s that. Personal insults are not the way to be truly heard.

Liberals are now in charge of the government, deal with it. The public hates the republican party and their broken policies that caused the current economic disaster.

Republicans say “Obama caused the financial meltdown in September of 2008!”
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John – Latest Graduate of The Keith Olbermann School Of Liberal Talking Points!
I have not heard a single person claim Obama caused it. Now If you want to trade Obama for Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Larry Summers, Bill clinton & Jimmy Carter from your side of the asile, then you would be dead on!
The blame is on both sides of aisle. Anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot!
I wonder if Barney Frank would be shooting his mouth off so much about AIG if congress decided to really investigate his involvement with Freddie/Fannie.
Anyway, moving forward to fixing this, there should be only one priority in the administration right now in regards to domestic agenda. Get the banking plan out! Obama should not step in front of another microphone until he has the names of ALL those appointees that he has to name! FILL THE TREASURY postions & Get Geithner to get his plan out!

“he hit the ground running with problems created by prior administration. ”
For crying out loud, EVERY administration claims that. Remeber Clinton and “the worst economy in 50yrs!”
These problems are huge YES, BUT they ARE NOT problems CREATED by the previous administration. If you want to continue to live in absoultes like that, then Obama is responsible for EVERYTING from 12 Noon at January 20th 2009.
Hence HE is responsible for the markets having lost almost 20% of their value!
Somehow, I am sure that Obama supporters do not want to look at it in those terms.

I did not vote for either candidate this year. I had become tired of choosing between such peoople as these.
However, I like the “idea” of Obama. Unfortunatey, this is a time when we need a great leader. The problems we have are nearly unsolvable. This was not a time to make a great experiment in healing. The new Prresident is simply in over his head. I hope he learns how to swim pretty quickly but I not convinced he can do so.
Still, he is my President and I wish him success. This ship is sinking.

28% approve of the job being done by Republican congressional leaders, the lowest rating for GOP leaders in nearly 14 years of Pew Research surveys.
Could this be because of a Feb poll by the New York Times which showed that 70 percent of Americans wanted the Republicans to work with Obama and they didn’t?
Obama lost 5 percentage points is not a free fall but the Republicans at 28 percent means trouble for them in 2010.
This part of the Pew Poll caught my interest -
A majority (52%) says it is wrong to change the Medicare prescription drug plan so that upper-income retirees would pay more.
This could mean trouble for Obama and he can avoid that right now by saying he won’t make anyone pay more.
Now I’m no expert but if these drugs are cheaper like say the Canadian prices then everyone wins except the Drug Companies. Could the Drug Companies sacrifice and help with this problem? Or is the pull for quarterly profits too powerful?
Bush never asked Special Interests to sacrifice, never even asked Americans to sacrifice for both wars. The auto industry could have been retooled for both wars under Bush saving auto companies needed jobs. Already some of the newer Humvees run on Water and Gasoline. If the auto companies retool this way making these new energy efficient Humvees this could also help the auto companies retool for new energy efficient consumer cars? GM is marketing an electrical car. Isn’t Israel going completely with electrical cars?
The oil companies are so powerful but can’t they sacrifice as well? We are in two wars and they can help us all by sacrificing until the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are over. During War World 2 the American people and industries sacrificed. Why are these wars different? Because Bush/Cheney said so?

John: the man in the White House right now received more money than anyone but Chris Dodd for blocking oversight on Fannie/Freddie…you know the companies that are now 80% government controlled. Bush addressed the credit problem in 2005 and Dodd said we will filibuster it don’t even think about oversight! Both sides are to blame but the idea that these problems just came with the White House is a joke…Obama has blood all over his hands

Obama, the teleprompter king!

Mike,
Since Fannie and Freddie had nothing to do with the creation of the credit default swaps or toxic mortgage backed securities BOTH OF WHICH HAVE DEMONSTRATED KEY ROLES in destroying not only the U.S. economy but that of the whole world…
Your objection is without foundation and lacks any merit.
Please feel free to educate yourself before coughing up Sean Hannity’s excuses for the why the Republicans had nothing to do with the Great Recession.

You have got to be joking! President Obama inherited a deteriorating economy, a failed war, loss of respect for our country worldwide, and little or no regulation for our major industries and banks. Former President Bush sat on the sidelines and let the whole country slide out from under him, and the country now blames his successor for not turning everything around since January 20, 2009? My President has my support for the monumental job he inherited, and my prayers that he can do his job without the slashes and snipes of an ungrateful populace.

A couple more points people should read if they want to understand the causes of the Republican Recession.
1. NOBODY offered RISKY MORTGAGES out of the goodness of their hearts. People offered risky mortgages because the market came up a mechanism, mortgage backed securities, for collecting their profit and passing the risky loans to someone else.
2. As long as their was someone (private rating agencies) willing to rate their risky securities as AAA AND someone else willing to suspend disbelief and buy these too-good-to-be-true securities… THERE WAS NO REASON for lenders to minimize risk.
3. Although people sometimes call this the ‘sub-prime’ credit crisis, that is a misleading label. Most of the risky loans were Alt-A and no-doc loans available to people WITH assets and good credit scores.
Someone can have assets without the income to pay for a small mansion and that is what people did.
Those who insist on staying blind to the fact that this was a market gone wild, a brush fire where the firemen, Republican named regulators, who thought it was their job to nap, only insist on being ignorant.

Yeah, like if GS is a person to listen. GS is scared to ask the hard questions to the GOP. The media all they do is repeat the GOP talking points. And never correct themselves even if The media and GS find out they wrong. Every day the media and GS dismised and diminised the president instead presenting the the fair and balanced news they go with it is the talking point of the they. Specially GS who is doing and interview wint JM like if JM knows a lot about the economy. The media and GS go about with the GOP. GS is out of thouch.

JOHN– Sorry dude, but your whole post is a load of cr#p.. Usually i at least acknowledge points people make that are correct even if there are flaws with it in total, but yours is COMPLELTELY wrong..
First,this is NOT A REPUBLCIAN RECESSION.. saying so doesn’t make it so.. this recession is the sole result of DEMOCRATS not minding the stroe when it came to the mortgage industry.
1.)Actually risky mortgages WERE OFFERED and Fannie and Freddie pushed banks and lenders to continue to relax their criteria for making loans.. 3.0 2.)and it wasn’t private rating agencies behind the bundling of loans – it was Freddie and Fannie.. Leading democrats like Barney Frank were SUPPOSED to monitor the activities, but did nothing except recieve 100s of thousands in lobby funds while looking the other way..
3.)No, the majority of the loans WERE no paper loans given to people who had no business entering into that agreement. OVer 10,000 of the defaulted loans in the mid west were given to illegal aliens, people with NO INCOME were granted 6 figure homes as long as they agreed to a higher rate..
4.)What republcian named regulators? the Senate committee on commerce oversight (who was responsible for keeping this in check) was made up ENTIRELY of DEMOCRATS…When 8 republicans came to the committe in late 2004 to blow the whistle, they were told to sit down and shut up basically… Please, say what you want about whether or not Obama’s plans will right the economy.. But please DON’T try to convince anyone this was a REPUBLICAN financial crisis.. it WAS NOT.. the DEMS OWN THIS LOCK, STOCK, AND BARREL

John,– You make a good argument for Kenseyian economics, but the logic is flawed.. It doesn’t work..
1.) Obama earmark legislation has been ignored due to the flexibility of its make-up.. The earmarks identification is simply tied to the websites of teh congressional member.. in order to actaully see all the pork, you have to look at all 535 sites individually.. not really transparency if you ask me..
2.)Last years budget did NOT decrease the number or size of the tearmakrs as you say.. in fact, it is the largest budget in US History and once the “stimulus” along with the omnibus bill are included, It becomes over 2 times largers than anything ever submitted by BUSH and 4 times larger than anything submitted by Clinton, the total count of earmarks for the three bills numbers over 10,000 (no thats not a mistype.)
3.)I never said that earmarks did cause a recession, but they also do nothing to alleviate one either.. what they DO accomplich however is increase the bottom line on spending without adding to the actaul stimultaing affect of other aspects of the bill which serves to increase inflation.
4.)Actually, if you look historically at various attempts to “right” a wayward economy, tax breaks have ALWAYS results in increased employment, while infrastructure spending NEVER has.. I’ll let history speak for itself on that one, but if you want to check it your self, compare employment rates following tax cuts (1981, 1983, 1991, 1993, 2003, 2004..are good examples) with unemployment rates following massive infrastructure spending ( the great depression is the best example of this) and you will see my point.
5.)the problem with this goes back to my other point, and its the deathnel of Kenseyian economics.. Jobs created through government spending also create inflation while jobs created through private sector growth (tax cuts) do not.. with government jobs, the action that initally creates the jobs also ultimately stiffles them and the grwwoth is short term while the resulting inflation usually is not…
On your final statement, all i can say is that you have it wrong.. but the only way you will see this is over time…Want to make a bet on what the unemployment and inflation rate is 1 year from now? two years?? that will be the real story…

Well finally the hang over is starting to kick in after all the junk you drank to believe this President as he spends us into debt out great great grandchildren will curse us for. .

John–”But it is the Republicans who tell us every day and on every opportunity, that there should be no regulation in the marketplace.”
Actually not – they DON”T say that.. the republican mantra is that regulation should be minimal.. that it should impose the least government affect of private industry as is necessary.. not that it should be non existent.
“Like the Iraq war, the Democrats failed to resist the policies of the Republicans.”–
I did a editorial for my local newspaper about Iraq when the whole “Bush Lied – People Died” chant was in full swing.. I can give you the names of 47 prominent democrats including people like HRC, John Kerry, and Al Gore who all PUBLICALLY called for military action in Iraq as much as 3 years before Bush took office.. In fact, John Kerry wrote an official letter to Pres Clinton in 1998 calling on him to take Military action against Iraq. How exactly did they fail to resist Bush’s policies if their opinions mirrored his actions 2 years before he became president??

arkie vet >>> What short memories koolaid drinkers have. Its the grape flaovring I think. LOL..

gotta run folks.. John, hope to chat with you again soon… I appreciate real discourse which is what you seem to bring.. I abhor the juvenile name calling that too many on here post.. Do me a favor though.. Look up the unemployment rates from a reputable site (governement sites like the census department are best) and compare those rates to historical tax cuts and see for your self.. and if you actually take a look at employment rates during the depression, you may just change your mind about the effectiveness of “infrastructure spending”.. have a great day…

Regarding Kenseyian economics, I tell you what:
Why don’t we rewind the clock to before Bush asked for the TARP bailout of the banks and Obama asked for the stimulus bill?
Herbert Hoover responded to the financial crisis that became known as the Great Depression by saying the most important thing to do was TO BALANCE THE BUDGET. (FDR too, for the first year he was office tried the same thing.)
If it was good enough for Hoover, it should be good enough for us, right?
Second, profitable companies are laying off people NOW. The managers are not mean people and they are not trying to sabatage the economy, but they are putting the money in the bank.
If you can send them a million dollars tax cut or put a million dollars in the pockets of previously unemployed people with a family to support. Who is going to spend the money in the economy?
Anyone who even heard of Adam Smith should know: People do what they perceive to be in their self interest. Do not try to explain human behavior by assuming the opposite.
You may note that my explanations DO assume that people did what they perceived as being in THEIR OWN INTEREST.
ALARMISTS will tell you that increasing the money supply will doom us to inflation. Maybe they didn’t notice but we are on the edge of another great depression.
And a depression is accompanied by FALLING PRICES. Businesses in danger of becoming insolvent lower their price in a vain attempt to attract enough customers to keep afloat. Even if they have to fire every employee.
And firing people means there are fewer customers in the market.
And fewer customers in the market mean more companies at the edge of insolvancy.
You can’t have inflation without higher prices. Duh! And that is not going to happen until there is more demand. Duh!
We should be so lucky.
REGARDING YOUR OTHER POINTS: At least Norm Coleman’s lawyer was able to prove 6 points. You didn’t even make one!
YOU FAILED to show that earmarks have anything to do with the Republican Recession.
YOU LAUGHINGLY suggested that people can’t access the info on who did what earmark. Ever hear of internet spiders? If not, believe me with a couple classes you could write a program in Python to mine the information from 535 websites and make a nice need little report.
Your next point was not quite coherent but I will do my best.
“Last years budget did NOT decrease the number or size of the tearmakrs as you say.. in fact, it is the largest budget in US History”
The size of budget and the number of earmarks are not the same concept. The size of the budget and the total cost of earmarks are not the same concept.
The stimulus bill had no earmarks. If you want to contest this, quote WHICH PROJECT, WHICH STATE, WHICH POL.
“It becomes over 2 times largers than anything ever submitted by BUSH and 4 times larger than anything submitted by Clinton”
Not English.
“I never said that earmarks did cause a recession, but they also do nothing to alleviate one either”
Money goes in the pocket of previously unemployed people. People go shopping. Businesses hire people. Much better than the opposite.
“Actually, if you look historically at various attempts to “right” a wayward economy, tax breaks have ALWAYS results in increased employment”
Remember: Reagan raised taxes!
“I’ll let history speak for itself on that one, but if you want to check it your self, compare employment rates following tax cuts (1981, 1983, 1991, 1993, 2003, 2004..are good examples)”
History is great. Economic growth under Democrats > economic growth under Republicans. Economic depression I: Herbert Hoover. Economic depression II: George Bush.
“Jobs created through government spending also create inflation while jobs created through private sector growth (tax cuts) do not..”
Yes, I understand that is the Republican religion. Herbert Hoover is your God.

The Pew poll stinks i.e. the name. Obama’s polls are not slipping and if they are it is slightly. I am a republican who voted for him and I am still pleased. I am happy that we now have someone who will bring back the respect we once had as a nation. This economy will straighten out but not in two months. What happed to supporting our president for at least a year. All the naysayers are the ones who cannot admit THEY MADE A MISTAKE. I say go after AIG Obama…we are all behind you.

Gallup Poll (03/16/09: Obama approval rating 61%. Quite better than bush and clinton during this period in their respective administrations.
And mind you, non had to grapple with the kind of mess Obama is dealing with today.
MARK MY WORD: OBAMA WILL TURN OUT TO BE ONE OF THE GREATEST POTUS THIS COUNTRY EVER HAD!!!
Continue ignoring him at your peril. Peolple don’t seem to learn.

How can anyone take Obama seriously? When he “played” basketball his nickname was Barbie … all show and no go. The first time he would take a hard foul, he was out of the game with all kind of excuses. Unfortunately for him (and us) politics is full of hard fouls and there is no referee or coach to hold his hand.

Why hasn’t ABC covered the Tea Parties going on all over the country? They pulled in a big crowd in Cincinnatti – the mainstream media covered Iraq war protests even when only a handful of people showed up.
Does this not fit their agenda?

Yo, John…on earmarks in the stimulus…it might depend on what your definition of “is” is…but here’s a fact check site for you:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/feb/04/robert-gibbs/stimulus-bill-includes-projects-some-consider-earm/
I’d go through the bill…but I don’t think I could get back to you by the end of the year.

Just over 50 days and I am so happy I can proudly state that I didn’t vote for Obama! During the transition I thought we might have a moderate Democrat truly interested in bipartisanship and improving our political climate, and country. What we clearly have is an inept, probably corrupt, far left wing idealogue more interested in paying back his special interest supporters than fixing the economy and getting people back to work. I have to agree with the poll regarding Republicans though. As Obama broke his many promises to get rid of corrupt earmarks to sign almost 9000 of them into law it made me sick to know that Republicans sponsored 40% of them. If your choice is to choose between liberal corruption and conservative corruption, what kind of choice is that?????

Today a friend in accounting told my husband that next year at tax time, Obama is going to remove the tax credits for churches and charities. Muslims don’t believe in charity, but Christians do. And today it was announced that Obama is going to tax the Health Care Insurance that people get thru their employers. Whose side is Obama on ?????????

“Whose side is Obama on ?????????” The answer: he is on the side of extreme liberal projects, and that means on the side of big government, and get public money to perpetuate his power and the liberal power over the US, which means the loss of the status the US enjoyed all over the world, a prosperous nation that believes in rewarding those who work! Perhaps, the simpler way of explaining is: ” HE IS ON THE SIDE OF SOCIALISM “

Talmag posted>>> I am a republican who voted for him and I am still pleased. I am happy that we now have someone who will bring back the respect we once had as a nation…> talmag…I think that’s great and thank you for saying so!!!
I am an Independent turned Democrat that also voted for Obama… And I am also still very well pleased…
I enjoy his weekly addresses and visit Whitehouse.gov frequently.
I am happy with the Bush policies that Obama has overturned… If it makes Cheney unhappy, I AM thrilled…
No matter which person was elected President, there was going to be a stimulus, Obama’s is better than the GOP could have put forth if they were in charge well because we have seen it before and it hasn’t worked… Plus, Obama puts his stimulus on Recovery.gov…Transparency was Unheard of before this President…
I am happy with investing in our own country for a change, in our infrastructure, in education, and I look forward to what healthcare reform will look like under an Obama administration…
I work in a wholesale business and health insurance is the #1 complaint from the small business owners and the self employed that come in.
And investments in science and in green energy and technology sound much more common sense than “Drill baby, drill.
I voted for Obama because of his believe in diplomacy and thought it smart as hell for him to put Hillary in as Secretary of State.
I watch as the GOP still play politics and plan for 2012 instead of putting their efforts in to helping the President get us out of this Recession.
My beliefs are a lot different than many of the people I work with but, each day I must put aside my own beliefs to get the job done…and especially now, be grateful that I still have one.
Seems to me that politicians could agree to disagree and then find common ground from which to work together especially right now. But from what I have seen of the GOP, I don’t believe that will happen.
I am thinking that for those that are sorry they voted for him are either really impatient and don’t have a firm grasp of chaos within our economy…cuz it has only been a couple of months… proving that Obama cannot be the Messiah… the Messiah probably would have all this mess cleaned up by now… O.. wait a minute… Even the Messiah could not prevent others from hanging him up on the cross…
Or,
They didn’t listen to the things Obama said he would do… cuz that is what he is doing… I am very happy with this President…
I also understand that for some,,,first he’s not doing enough… then he is doing too much…
Some just don’t like him and will criticize his every word and deed no matter what…
But things they are and will be changing… Scary!;)!

theafalcon200, your comment about the Messiah, meaning Jesus Christ, is as ignorant as any I have ever read! If you knew anything about him, you would know that his hanging on the cross was ultimatelly God’s Will for the salvation of those believe him! But I know you have no clue about this! As you have no clue about whom Obama really is! Ignorance is bliss, isn’t it?

… continuing on your statements some this … some that …theafalcon200 … some were really seduced by Obama oratory skills and can not see how deceitful … Obama is all rhetoric and no sound action!

What self-respecting pollster considers a shift from 62% to 59% significant when there is a 3-4% margin of error? That means the first reading could have been 59%(or 65%) and the second 62% (or 56%). Stop reaching for the headline and start looking for the trendline.

Great name “trueblue” … you will really see blue as result of liberal policies beeing put in place! As for INTELLIGENT REPUBLICANS! None of us are intelligent as you are! Someone who does not see that big government elites treat you as someone who can not take care of yourself! You need the government to take money from one and give to another in some way shape or form! And you are one of those seduced by a great orator! I give that to Obama he is ALL TALK!

Next up, Obama wants injured veterans to pay their own medical bills due to injuries sustained in battle instead of the VA picking up the bill. This is not a joke or misprint.
From the AP news wire:
“It became apparent during our discussion today that the President intends to move forward with this unreasonable plan,” said Commander David K. Rehbein of The American Legion. “He says he is looking to generate $540-million by this method, but refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it.”
Wake up, America. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see what Obama is doing to the sacred trust between our government and the soldiers it sends into battle. It’s just another institution he intends to dismantle.

The approval numbers will continue to drop as the Obama spend fest continues. Republicans wont be the only ones crying for the next 4 or 8 years!

The country won’t survive 4 years of Obama……Russia has move themselves and missles to Cuba, China is getting ready to forclose, and Obama is turning loose terrorists to boot…all with killling our military and economy. Impeach Obama NOW

The below post is flawed on so many levels, its hard to correct it… but I’ll certainly try…
“THE PEW POLL we need to see:
“Which of the following Republican-Herbert Hoover economic proposals of the Republican do you approve of?”
“1.Let the financial sector collapse as it did in the Great Depression.”
Bush and his treasury secretary took very active steps to shore up the financial sector. That was where the main problem was, and that was what they focused on. Remember TARP? Obama has done nothing but dither about the financial sector, while trying to get a raft of other issues passed that have nothing to do with the financial crisis.
“2.Trade our jobs to India and China where there is no burdensome regulation like the clean air act, as per the prescription of Milton Freedman.”
Smoot Hawley was one of the cornerstones of the great depression. That is, protectionism was a principal cause. It was passed under Hoover, but is exactly the opposite of what republicans want to do. However, this depression inducing Hoover policy does sound like something you would endorse, and sounds like something Obama endorsed on the campaign trail, and in some pats of his recovery policies.
“3.NO work on infrastructure. You probably won’t be on it the next time a bridge collapses into the Mississippi.”
Republicans actually proposed that stimulus money be used for real infrastructure, like bridges and freeways. Thing that have a lasting dividend for the economy. These were, for the most part, rejected in favor of the overwhelming pork and mindless spending provisions in the stimulus bill. Note that pork does not just mean earmarks, either. Pork is just wastefull spending whether done by earmark or initially drafted into the bill that inures little benefit to the economy and just works to pay off favors to members of congress.
“4.NO money for states, resulting in the layoffs of millions of teachers, firemen, and police.”
This has nothing to do with “Hoover” or thelast depression. States need to come up with their own solutions. If the US Govt. bails them out they will retain little fiscal discipline, and the federal funds will become necessary year after year as a source of regular spending for the state. See California (a state I grew up in and live in, and am sad to see going down the toilet due to policies that Obama is endorsing that have already wreaked their havoc here.
“5.END all regulation of Wall Street. They have proven that they know how to get the job done, selling credit default swaps!”
This is a straw-man. No one advocated ending all regulation…. no one! Note that Bush advocated tighter regulations of Fannie and Freddie, who blocked that? Note that Sarbanes Oxley was passed during Bush’s term (much to the detriment of our public markets and the ability of entrepreneurs to take great tech companies public). This one shows that you have little command of the facts.
“6.Hedge fund managers and everyone else with an income of $250,000 should pay a smaller percentage of taxes than the middle class.”
You are severly misinformed here as well. Are you aware that the % of US tax receipts from upper income individual actually increased as a % of total tax receipts? That means that the “rich” paid more taxes proportionally than others even though they had lower tax rate. How do you think that happened? How do you think that lower tax rates meant that the federal deficit was actually reduced after they were passed and that tax receipts overall when up drastically? BTW, some of the policies that doomed Hoover were to raise taxes to prop up federal revenues. Who is currently proposing to do that now?
Get your facts straight before you post please….

has he shown his green card yet? i still never heard where he was born. in the the U.S? OR ANOTHER COUNTRY?

“My President has my support for the monumental job he inherited, and my prayers that he can do his job without the slashes and snipes of an ungrateful populace.”
Sorry, but anyone with military experience can tell you that “support and prayers” cannot magically transform a man with no common sense, no understanding of human behavior, and no proven track record of executive leadership into a pragmatic, competent, and successful leader. That’s just reality.
None of us who studied Obama before the election is in the least surprised by what we’re seeing right now. The media managed to dupe millions, and they continue to use constant distractions to cover up their complicity to this day.

I’m sick and tired of hearing how Obama inherited this financial mess. Was he not a US Senator before being elected President? Therefore, he also is responsible and accountable.
Of course his approval ratings are falling. People have learned that he truly was inexperienced and that he has no intention of following through with his campaign promises. Obama pledged that he would be ready for the job on day one. What a lie. He and his cabinet are still not ready and he’s now two months into his presidency.

For four years the libs squealed like stuck pigs about how W. stole the election when the Supremes stopped the recount. Now the conservatives can cry about how Obama is really a Kenyan and he was really elected by foreign money from the Middle East. My how the times have changed.

FromBrazil posted>>> theafalcon200, your comment about the Messiah, meaning Jesus Christ, is as ignorant as any I have ever read!…………………….
speaking of ignorant…..
The point I was making was addressing those who have referred to Obama as the Messiah…
Even in the story of Jesus, it was his own people in the end that crucified him and had him hung on the cross…
Much like some Americans apparently would like to do to Obama…
Even as many in the rest of the world celebrated as Obama became President of the United States…Other countries were watching and were happy to have Bush out of the WH and Obama in…
I find it humorous that out of all I said, that you got stuck on just that one sentence. That’s kinda funny…
Although this is not the place for it,
perhaps we could debate the topic of religion under a more related topic, you may find that I am not as ignorant of Christ as you have assumed..;)!

Obama doesn’t know what he is doing. The man is lost.

Less than 2 months in office and Obama is already a big failure. Can we have John McCain back.

Let’s do away with this charade that the Dems arent most culpable in all this with their pushing banks to give out loans to those who couldnt be trusted to pay their utility bills let alone a mortgage.
The top five recipients of Fannie, and Freddie contributions are all Democrats, Obama being 2nd on that list in only 2 years as a jr senator.
Obamas outrage is a feigned as can be. Tim Geithner was the architect of AIGs bailout contract. Obama in 50 days has proven himself to be the most corrupt , and clueless president in history.
Hiring a tax cheat to run the treasury, and IRS????? No red flags there. and,,,How many pledges has the “sound judment” candidate broken?

Personally, I say P.U. to Pew. Oabma’s numbers are not slipping at my house. I think he is great. He’s in there pitching every day, trying to make things better for all of us, even the ungrateful jerks who bash him every day. He communicates to the highest common denominator, yet never talks down to anyone. He’s not afraid to try things a new way. He’s young. He has energy, optimism, brains and a great smile. This whole nation is in such a bitchy mood that Superman himself could not satisfy the whole populace. I say thank goodness for our new prez.

To John, with all my love:)
http://meetchristians.com/php/randal/correctinghistory.html

To conservative Gal: How can you possibly compare President Obama to Hitler? At least Obama is for the middle class, unlike his predecessor and a lot smarter! Besides, Hitler was a psychopath who tried to create white supremacy across the globe! Yes, he DID inherit this “mess”, but what other alternative is there? Rely on the Republicans again? Be serious!!!

His ratings will continue to slip as he breaks EVERY ONE of his campaign promises – transparency, no lobbyists, lower taxes on 95%, won’t get out of Iraq for a decade — Centrists will soon ALL wish they could take their vote back!!!

SOME COMMENTS SUGGEST THAT THIS IS NOT A DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN THING/DEBACLE/FAULT.
MAYBE THEY ARE TECHNICALLY CORRECT. BUT. IF AN INDICTEMNT WAS BEING PREPARED AND ACCOMPANYING EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THAT INDICTMENT YOU WOULD SEE THREE REPUBLICANS NAMES, COLLINS, SNOWE AND SPECTOR AND, AT LEAST, 200 DEMOCRATS NAMES.
OUR DEFICIT IS IN NOT HAVING A MAJORITY OF CONSERVATIVES IN CONGRESS FOR THE PAST 60 YEARS AND NEVER A REAL CONSERVATIVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE IN THE SAME TIME PERIOD.
WHEN WE LOST THE CONSERVATIVE BASE IN OUR NATION WE LOST WHAT BUILT THIS NATION. AMERICA SAT SILENT AND ALLOWED THE MEDIA AND ACADEMIA TO DEFINE CONSERVATIVE AS MEAN, RATHER THAN WHAT IT TRULY MEANS- RESPONSIBLE.
JOYHN M. CHINN

NOW THAT WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, it should be obvious that regulation is necesary to protect the economy and the Republicans are full of…
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John,
Very nice, now perhaps when you get afew moments, go back and look at How Larry Summers & Bill clinton strongly backed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
Then move forward, and see how the Dems blocked efforts by Bush to add regulations.
I will state this over and over for those like you who have this incredibly IGNORANT concept that ONLY the Republicans caused this.
THEERE IS BLAME ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE!!!
As far as Obama following or not folowing the previous addministration, The POINT now is he is trying to do TOO much, TOO Fast. YOU , Obama and others have not learned the lessons here at all ! TARP to “stimulator”…We are passing enormous spending bills with far reaching implications with almost ZERO idea of how many problems all this will create – SIMPLY because we are rushing to “prevent a crisis from becoming a catastrophe”. That is why the TARP funds vaporized and now everyone is asking where did it go and getting no answers.
Right NOW Obama needs to get Treasury properly staffed & get Geithner moving!

LittleLady,
I think that a negative response to the stimulus bill is understandable.
First off, this really is a huge amount of money we are talking about. I have heard that the S&L bailout during the George H Bush presidency cost U.S. taxpayers about $150 Billion. We have forked over more money than that to AIG alone!
Secondly, people have an uneasy feeling about the possible inflationary effect of all this stimulus. This concern should be mitigated when the difference between an inflationary and deinflationary cycle.
Simply put, inflation results from their being more demand than the economy can produce efficiently.
Deflation results when businesses lay off all their employees in an attempt to lower their prices, in an attempt to draw in customers, when their are too few customers for the production capacity of the economy. Of course, when all the employers lay off employees at the same time, this reduces the available pool of customers.
It is also the case that some people want to see the administration’s policies fail because their fear of the “liberals” succeeding is greater than their fear of an economic depression.

cougar-gal– though this may seem calous, its not OUR responsibility to feed the world. Its our responsibility to protect and adhere to the concerns and needs of our own. We live in the most affluent country in the worlds history. One of the main reasons for this is that our constitution created ablueprint for individual freedom. One of the reason’s so many are unwilling to give OBama a chance is that they see his vision of our country as one where we have LESS freedom and more government control..that was NOT what the founde3rs of this country had in mind. Our constitution only provides us with the right to “pursue happiness” through our own ability we succeed or fail.. the governments job is to protect us, but not to control us.
I will surely anger some on here.. but I for one do NOT want natioanl healthcare, I do NOT want an expanded welfare state, I DO NOT want an economy dependent on government spending, and I do not want my government telling me how much money I should or should not make.. or anyone else for that matter..
Do I want Obama to fail.. NO, but as long as his policies continue to restructure our government into a socail democracy, I DO WANT HIS POLICIES TO FAIL..

To Arkie Vet: May I remind you that Social Security is, in fact, a social program that still works? Yes, the program has problems and I’m sure that Obama will address them. Why is “Socialism” such a dirty word these days? Also, are you really satisfied with your monthly healthcare premium? I’m currently on COBRA and NOT HAPPY W/IT!! Let’s try something different. The U.S. is the only nation that relies on its businesses to provide healthcare and obviously, it’s no longer working!!!
As Obama repeatedly says, “if you’re happy with your existing medical plan, then stay with it”. What’s wrong with that? We need more CHOICES with regard to health care!!

WOW Grecian lady…..you think there will still be a “choice” after “O” and the democrits finish??? In Britain, the government controlled medical necessity board decided that if you have glaucoma…….you have to go blind in one eye before they will aprove a new treatment……after much outrage…they have apparently reversed this decision.
Have you ever investigated how much money the Canadian Health Care system spends in the USA each year for treatments unavailable in Canada???
Change we can believe in???? Is SOCIALISM a dirty word??? Only if you have never experienced FREEDOM………if you want socialism…….just say so.

Republicans need to stop whining and remember their massive failures under Bush have left Obama a very difficult job of cleaning up.

tropicgirl – um, no. I’m a populist and I still support Obama. You don’t speak for me. Thanks!

Polls can be slanted to read positively or negatively. Obama just better not screw with the veterans. One of his proposals is to shift payment for service connected illnesses from the VA to private insurers. That is really messed up. These men and women have rished there lives fighting for this country. It is our responsibility as a nation to take care of them. Veterans call your Senators and Representatives and Veterans organizations!!!!

Obama does everything he promised: he promised Socialism and we are getting it.
He promised change – and a lot of change is now in the pockets of execs…

Obama is a lying, manipulative phony full of bravado and empty promises. The guy needs a teleprompter because he can’t remember the script. When he does speak off the cuff, we get the truth — “Joe the Plumber…share the wealth.” It’s his misfortune to have inherited really, really SERIOUS economic problems. In any other period, he could coast (his natural condition: doing as little as possible, and soaking up the credit for other people’s work). But in this economy, his indolence, his laziness, his narcissism will do him in. He’s not just going to go down. He’ll go down in FLAMES! I just wonder what will be left to salvage when he’s gone.

We, the Republicans, would love to divorce you Dumborats!!!
We will split the land and you can have all your wierdo devices-abortions etc…
We will keep our guns, pharmaceutical companies and God.
We want a divorce. There is NO way that we can get along with your culture.
Let’s just split. Please do not call for money or help….

Obama is turning out to be the worst President this country ever had. Can we sack him now before he does further damage to our economy and country.

All you Obama haters are total hypocrites. Suddenly, everybody among the neocon morons is a critic, now that Obama is in.
Where was your criticism during eight years of malfeasance and corruption? Nary a word.
The whole country had to be cowed and intimidated by the threat of being called ‘not patriotic enough’.
Now all you hypocrites who MADE THIS MESS feel free to take a shot at Obama.
Why didn’t you feel free to take a WELL DESERVED shot at the Bush Administration, hmmmm?
I make an irrefutable point: Neocons, blame yourselves for supporting the Bush administration that did all this economic damage. You are just partisan obstructinists, that is all you are now. You guys put us into this tank, Obama didn’t. Accountablity is something you toothless southern banjo-playing GOPer ignoramuss have forgotten.
Give Obama time to see if he is wrong. He’s only been in office for a month or two.
I add my voice loud and clear in support of Obama and wish all you miserable blame-throwers would start blaming George W. Bush and beyond him, the whole right wing of you on the stupid side of the American electorate.
YOU CONS were collaborators and enablers of Bush Administration crimes and STILL WON’T OWN YOUR FAULT IN THIS. YOU ARE TOO CROOKED TO BE ASHAMED.

It’s not the conservative democrats that feel betrayed by Obama, it’s the LIBERAL ONES.

Hence the appearance on Leno.
Desperate candidates always hit the talkshows when they are losing or falling.
Obama thinks he is still campaigning. Can’t really blame him though, it is all he’s done over the last two and a half years…

I have no right to comment because I am foreign, but I enjoyed the read.
Thank you for the blog.
Kind regards.

The problem lies with the liberal democrat with a plantation idea of trying to be part of the help that is coming, we know that some democrat do have their hand in the pocket of the AIG show! All we get to do is believe in the president on what he trying to do for the country!