In Gallup Poll, President Obama at All-Time Lows for Handling of Economy, Health Care

If left leaning Gallup shows numbers like this, you can be assured that they are even worse. Healthcare will be his Waterloo.

Meanwhile..in Washington DC last night, HUGE PHARMA/HEALTH INSURANCE sponsored fundraiser for Martha Coakley, the DEMOCRAT who wants to fill Kennedy’s senate seat in MASS and be the 60th vote on this monster stealthcare bill..and you know, fight those EEEEVIL insurance companies, and beat on BIIIIG pharma… helllooo?

The State of the Union surely must be a reset button for Obama on domestic issues. He needs to convince Americans he is working to fix jobs, etc.

I can’t wait for 2012 when the Republican president can just say it was Obama’s fault that the US is in such a mess… quit passing blame and DO something that’s RIGHT for the American people. Now more $$ for wars??? What did he say during the campaign about healthcare discussions/debates, wars and spending??? lies, lies, lies… Can’t wait for 2012!

People are waking up and realizing that Obama is all talk. He hasn’t delivered on one thing that he promised during the campaign. Obama is a one term president. He was a huge mistake.

The more things “change” the more they stay the same. Obama is just another in a long line of individuals who promise much and deliver little. The change the majority of people want has nothing to do with expanding government and limiting of personal liberty.

If Bush is to blame then add Clinton to the list too. His administration pushed for a higher homeownership percentage especially for people who could not afford to do so.
Plus, the president cannot pass any law/legislation. He can propose them but it’s up to Congress to pass them. Put the blame where it really belongs……on Congress.

CW – Lone Star ……..You are blaming Bush? What a joke.
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Actually I was kidding – I was thinking some of our friends on the left would somehow make this claim before we are finished here. On everything else they end the conversation with Bush did it why not this?
I should have added :
j u s t k i d d i n g.

Lone Star……….LOL

This proves that Republican sabotage of our economy has been effective. We would be much further along in the recovery had it not been for intentional sabotage by the Republicans. They will pay a heavy price for this. Kick the rest of them out of office in 2010!

wantingbalance – you say “The more things “change” the more they stay the same”
You are exactly right.

Obama made all those promises thinking that when he was elected he would slide behind the wheel and take off in the direction of his choice..now he realizes that he’s on the Dumbo ride at Disney with Harry and Nancy controling the levers below.

Sentinel……..Right wing hate mongers? What? Obama poll numbers are tanking because he doesn’t know what he is doing.

GOP: driven and motivated by ignorance and hate; maintained by corruption….

Poor Obammy. He is sterting to figure out that America does not want to be socialized. The economy will be his demise.

This president has become a laughing stock. i sure am glad I was not one of the ones fooled by him, I would be embarassed.

Rapidly approaching Bush levels.
Healthcare: 58% DISAPPROVE, 37% approve
Sweeping mandate for revolutionary change, Baby!
Of course, Gallup is just an amateur rightwing outfit like Rasmussen.

I rate Obama running for president: 100, and Obama as president: 5
What a disappointment. He had the wind at his back, the biggest vote mandate in generations, he could have asked for the moon and whatever he would have fought for, he’d have gotten. But he is too ignorant to realize that. What a waste. He did a 180 the minute he walked into the White House. I want my vote back.

I love how republicans NEVER take responsibliity for thier actions. They seem to forget it was Bush and the Republicans that started two wars and doubled the national deficit. Hey Bill Clinton balanced the budget. You cannot say that for any republican president. And dont forget it was regan that started the deficits back in the 80′s.
COME ON REPUBLICANS TAKE RESPONSIBILTY FOR YOUR ACTIONS!!!!!

The well respected CBS poll Obama 46% approval

I have been independent voting for Democrats republicans and in some case 3rd Party Candidates through out my life.
Never have I felt more deceived or betrayed than I have by the Obama Administration. At least Bush was loyal to to the people that Bought err Brought him to the ball. Obama is attacking the middle class with his health care “Reform” He has betrayed the Gay and Lesbian population that worked so hard for him (this is particularly shameful in the armed forces) He has a treasury secretary that can or wouldn’t pay his taxes and we are surprised that his plans are failing. Obama continues to display a level hypocrisy in areas of race while holding a bigoted stance on gays and lesbians. At this point I hate to say it but I would take 4 more years of Bush rather than 1 more year of Obama.

Sentinel1946—- So you don’t believe the GOP has any good ideas? What money do you believe saved the banks from failure? Why are the Dems dropping the public option on the Health Insurance Subsidtion Legislation? Why is Obama saying he wants more emphasis on small business?

Sentinel1946,
Please get your head out from in the sand. The GOP may be corrupt, but do you think the Chicago political machine is better. The democrats are just as corrupt. Tax cheats, liars and black mailers. The sooner you realize this the better this country will be. They are all corrupt and they do not have your best interest in mind. They are the traitors.

oboma should of never been elected into office.

I think the time has come for Obama to face the people. How about having a series of real (not staged!) home-town meetings? How about a news conference – the last one was sometimes last summer, I believe. But please, not another speech from the telepromter!

One term President, Absolutely! Right now, the Dems. are sacrificing their political careers in defying the people in their current left wing political ideology. Yes, we are currently on the path to socialism. I am sick and tired of the liberal left telling me that I am un-christian by not supporting this type of health care reform. Heck, I thought it was the left that wanted christianity removed from all facets of our soceity. So I guess in some morbid way, that is a compliment.

The country has been looted and not one person has been arrested. Somebody sold the hedge funds somebody got the derivatives. Wallstreet basically burned the house down to collect the insurance. The whole economic crisis was engineered. The need to start putting some of wallstreet in leg irons.

“”"”"His handling of the economy is right on track. He let the republicrats turn health care into a pile of dung. The war is a complete waste.”"”"”
Posted by: rightbehind
You should be called “wrongbehind”. Obama has frozen small business. They are not hiring because of fear in cap and trade and health care, so no, it’s not “right on track”. The GOP had ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with this pile of Government Subsidized Insurance Legislation. The Dems won’t even let the GOP in the room. Get your FACTS straight.

rightbehind — And as for the war being a complete waste, why doesn’t Obama pull out then? You elected him and got swindled.

What caused the financial meltdow, high energy prices. People stop spending and paying their mortgages as a result of $4.00 gas prices. Everything else, just trickled dow.

I think the people have spoken and its not on FOX news. Start over and sit down and have every voice in Washington try to figure out the best path for healthcare. Its taken this long with a DEM super majority and we still cant work it out. Come on! Do the right thing for the people who voted you in!

“The Insurance and pharmaceutical lobby and the RNC spin Machine have spent 100s of millions to sully the Debate on health care etc. They have even been able to keep single payer and public Option out…”
Posted by: brian | Jan 13, 2010 10:01:54 AM
Really? Look who is raising money this week for the Democrat Coakley running for Ted Kennedy’s old seat in Mass!
–As first reported by Timothy Carney of the Washington Examiner, the host committee for the fundraiser at Pennsylvania Avenue’s Sonoma Restaurant includes lobbyists for Pfizer, Merck, Eli Lilly, Novartis and sundry other drug companies that have been among the biggest of ObamaCare’s corporate sponsors. Other hosts—who have raised at least $10,000 for Ms. Coakley—include representatives from UnitedHealthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Humana and other insurers. As far as we can tell, the insurance industry claims to oppose ObamaCare’s current incarnation.
Naturally, lobbyists from America’s Health Insurance Plans and Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the major trade groups, were on hand too. Money follows power in Washington, obviously, though this example seems especially inexplicable given that Ms. Coakley’s GOP opponent, state senator Scott Brown, may be the last chance to defuse the health-care doomsday machine. But maybe someone in the press corps will bother to mention this episode the next time President Obama takes aim at the “special interests” he claims are opposing his agenda.–

The Whitehouse will now need to expand its media war to include Rasmussen, Gallup, and Quinnipiac—since, like Fox News–they are not “serious” polling organizations. LOL
—American voters are split 45 – 45 percent on whether Barack Obama’s first year in office is a success or failure and split 35 – 37 percent on whether the U.S. would be better off if John McCain had won the 2008 election, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released today. As he marks the first anniversary of his inauguration, President Obama’s approval has slipped slightly into an even 45 – 45 percent split for the first time.
By a 47 – 40 percent margin, INDEPENDENT voters rate Obama’s first year in office as mainly a FAILURE; 81 percent of Democrats say it’s a success and 75 percent of Republicans say it’s a failure. Men say FAILURE 50 – 40 percent, while women say success 49 – 40 percent. White voters say FAILURE 54 – 37 percent, while black voters say success 82 – 7 percent.—

“I don’t believe that Obama was a better choice than Bush.”
-An unintentional admission that McCain would have been no different than Bush.

“…and orders more UAV drones to fly into Pakistan.-
There was that drone that hit a wedding. Trust me, some future in-law was happy.

“Should that be any surprise when many independents are really embarrassed ex-Republican refugees.”
Posted by: Skip | Jan 13, 2010 10:58:18 AM
Does this mean Democrats are ignoring Independent voters? Looks like it.
Good strategy…..for the GOP. This November will be especially enjoyable.

Result of other polls seems to be in agreement with the Gallup poll. From Yahoo News:
CBS News found 41 percent backed Obama’s economic management, another new low.
Quinnipiac found only 41 percent backed his handling of the economy, 34 percent approved of his efforts to create jobs and 35 percent approved of Obama’s handling of health care.

Anyone that bothered to research Obama-his past, his record, his associations
should not be surprised by the kind of president he is.

Wow, a news organization is actually reporting the truth and it isn’t Fox! Hypocrisy and double standards are the name of the democratic party. Harry Reid being excused for his comments while Trent Lott had to resign for less ambigious comments is proof in the pudding. While libs are at it, why don’t they bribe a senator for their healthcare bill… oh wait. :-)

The flim flam man’s chickens are coming home to roost.
Why are his approvals so high?
Must be his Wall Street, lobbyist, special interest, union, Hollywood friends–and the poor who are kept enslaved.
Do they make up the 46%?

Rasmussen today – Overall, 46% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. Fifty-three percent (53%) disapprove.

“Good strategy…..for the GOP. This November will be especially enjoyable”
I won’t try and rain on your parade. But after all the flack about healthcare dies down it will be time for mine. Republicans are going to have to decide who’s running the party: the George Wills or the Liz Cheneys and Sarah Palins, and THAT is going to be extremely entertaining.

“Anyone that bothered to research Obama-his past, his record, his associations
should not be surprised by the kind of president he is.”
Thank you, Kyle!! I totally agree.

“But after all the flack about healthcare dies down….”
Posted by: Skip | Jan 13, 2010 11:21:05 AM
Not any time soon, dude.
—Congressional Democrats face “serious problems” in getting a healthcare reform bill to the president’s desk, according to a House panel chairman.
“We’ve got to get a bill that’s more compatible to the House,” Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday. “Forget all the other questions. Two-hundred-eighteen [votes] is the most important issue we are dealing with… We have serious problems on both sides of the Capitol. SERIOUS PROBLEMS.”
Rangel’s comments come a day after Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) said health reform is “HANGING BY A THREAD.”—

I think it would be more beneficial, in debates such as the rager revolving around healthcare, to step back and look at what other options, besides subsidies and mandated gov’t approved/sponsored plans, might exist.
One of the most incredibly overlooked but also incredibly important reasons for healthcare costs continuing to rise outside of what inflation trends indicate they should rise at, is that you as a consumer are only allowed to purchase health insurance policies which are underwritten (i.e. funded and subrogated) in the state in which you reside as a legal and taxpaying resident. Simply, you don’t have much choice now in what healthcare packages you can choose (you can choose from all the providers in the state in which you reside, but not from a provider in the state next door; interstate commerce restrictions on health insurance,check it out, easy to Google). Imagine if, as a means to reforming healthcare such that costs are reduced, which would logically make it more accessible and affordable to many more currently uninsured Americans (that is the goal across party lines, whether any partisan ideologues want to fess to it or not), Congress simply enacted legislation whereby if Joe Smith in Arkansas wanted to buy an insurance policy underwritten in Virginia, he could do so. Think of the implications; that insurance company in Arkansas wants Joe’s money, so they are going to reduce his out of pocket expense, as well as his employer’s expense, to keep that policy. Insurance is a big business, if you don’t believe me, go back and look at the amount of money you and your employer, collectively, over the past 10 years have spent for insurance. Now subtract that figure from the amount the insurance company has paid out to your health care providers in return. There is a large delta of money there which the insurance company pockets, because it is a BUSINESS. If you forced them to become more price competitive (i.e. better management of resources, funds, rates, etc.) they are going to necessarily do it, because they still want to make money, not go out of business. If they weren’t price competitive, you and I (the consumers) could simply take our money elsewhere. It is almost like buying a car. Look for the best price and put the onus on the Seller to offer a fair deal; if one Seller can’t or won’t, take your spending power elsewhere. If you’ve ever bought a car, you know that the quickest way to get the dealer back at the table negotiating is to impress upon him that you’ll get up and take your money across the street to his competitor.
Instead, we are focusing on the government interjecting itself into the management of healthcare. Interesting that the administrative burden (i.e. the costs of overseeing a public option plan and the costs of certifying private insurance plans as acceptable) are never factored into the tally on overall pricetag/cost of the Senate or House plans. Ask any business man, and they’ll tell you that the final rates they set and charge are very much determined by indirect costs (Overhead, General and Administrative, etc.). As a consumer, you can see it when you go to the check out line in the grocery. You want a candy bar, you better fork out the 75 cents you owe the store. But where does that 75 cents go, and did the candy bar actually cost 75 cents to make? No, it didn’t. It cost 5 cents to make the candy bar, 10 cents to pay the employees who made and packaged it, 15 cents for the electricity to run the machines which make the candy bar/apply the packaging, another 15 cents for cost of fuel/delivery surchage to get it to the grocery, plus a 5 cent cost for the CEO of the company (that’s just how it works, folks, they are CEO’s for a reason, and it isn’t because they are dumb and don’t work hard). So there is the first 50 cents. Now it gets to the store, and the store adds 5 cents for employee wages, 10 cents for stuff like electricity for the store, etc. etc., and tacks on the final 10 cents for profit. Wahlah, your 75 cent candy bar.
Important point, maybe at the 7-eleven across the street, that same candy bar is 70 cents. All the cost buildup is the same, but 7-eleven only tacks on 5 cents for profit vice 10 at the grocery. Fundemental that the profit can decrease so that the final overall price to the consumer decreases, but all the costs have still be accounted for, etc.
Apply that same line of sound and factual economic thinking to healthcare. Realize that the cost you as the consumer ultimately pay is driven by an array of factors, and not simply ‘fat cats getting fatter’. Realize, further, that the government has a long standing history of fraud, waste, and abuse of your taxpayer money. Both parties are equally guilty, so finger pointing is unnecessary and unwarranted, really. They are all wealthy than you, and they don’t give a damn what you think once they get a grasp on the reigns of that position of power. They historically mismanage programs and there are myriad examples, yet we believe that this same entity is now fit to tightly manage your funds regarding healthcare, such that costs are controlled? It doesn’t make much sense if we go on historical performance and track record. Further, if they just nullified the interstate commerce restrictions such that you could have more choice (they are touting consumer choice as tantamount to this reform, in addition to cost savings and more access to coverage), it stands to reason that costs would in fact go down and therefore insurance would become more accessible, because the gov’t would have, at a much reduced burden administratively to them and to us (that administrative burden isn’t free, it costs money, as stated before), created a more competitive environment.
The bottom line here is, there are some facts which neither party can spin or distort and which pass the ‘sniff’ test and are engrained in us, or should be anyhow, over the course of our educational careers. Economic theory, in simpleton speak, states rules of supply and demand. If demand exceeds what is currently on the market, the supply must necessarily increase. Once the supply meets the demand, you find an equilibrium which is maintained through manipulation of factors, but nonetheless can be maintained with fair ease. How that relates to healthcare: There is a demand but the current supply isn’t meeting that demand. Since it isn’t, the supplier has the demandee by the stones in terms of price, and the reason the supplier has that type of power and leverage is because of interstate commerce restrictions. Take those restrictions out of the equation. Now the supply goes up dramatically because the demandee has access to new markets, which have always existed but weren’t allowed to be accessed. The supplier is now forced to be fair and reasonable in prices because the supplier now has much more competition and thereby inspiration to do so. Look at that as the equilibrium; by allowing citizens to shop all over the country for healthcare, the demand is being met by an adequate supply.

THAT is going to be extremely entertaining.
Posted by: Skip |
What is NOT entertaining is the Wicked Witch of the West, madam speaker, taking 20 reps and their families to Copenhagen on military jets for a few days of whatever, all on OUR dime and she won’t even answer questions about it.
“Pelosi’s a horrible woman” – CNN’s Jack Cafferty.

now aren’t all you African Americans happy you voted for Obama just based on his race. Look at what he is doing to this country, he’s ruining it. He has no damn clue what hes doing and its just going to keep getting worse. He is all talk and a liar

Money talks and BS walks. While Obama has been generous to his buddies in the Unions and the memebers who reside in ficticious congression districts the majority of the populace, who don’t want handouts and chump change, simply want jobs.
Worrying about healthcare and the world ending from global warming means absolutely nothing to a man or woman without a means to support themselves or their families.

Obama had 99% of the Black vote and now enjoys an 88% approval of the Black voters.

“What is NOT entertaining is the Wicked Witch of the West, madam speaker”
I’m guessing you have a penchant for the cute dumb ones.

and if these polls were from just those who are currently working, or worked at least 25 yrs and are retired I would bet his numbers would be even lower? how can anyone support this guy, who wants to take what few dollars we have left after taxes, and give them to non workers with their hand out

It’s not just Gallup…
From Quinnipiac 1/13/10:
“American voters are split 45 – 45 percent on whether Barack Obama’s first year in office is a success or failure and split 35 – 37 percent on whether the U.S. would be better off if John McCain had won the 2008 election, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released today. As he marks the first anniversary of his inauguration, President Obama’s approval has slipped slightly into an even 45 – 45 percent split for the first time. …
By a 47 – 40 percent margin, independent voters rate Obama’s first year in office as mainly a failure; 81 percent of Democrats say it’s a success and 75 percent of Republicans say it’s a failure. Men say failure 50 – 40 percent, while women say success 49 – 40 percent. White voters say failure 54 – 37 percent, while black voters say success 82 – 7 percent.
Obama’s job approval is only slightly lower than his 46 – 43 percent rating in Quinnipiac University’s December 23 survey. But it continues a gradual but consistent downward move that began last summer when his approval rating was 59 – 31 percent positive June 4.”
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Yep, feels like a “solid B+” to me. (/sarc)
Blood is in the water and the sharks are beginning to circle. I had no idea the Democrats were this incompetent. Lesson learned!

“how can anyone support this guy, who wants to take what few dollars we have left after taxes, and give them to non workers with their hand out”
Because even if your characterization is even remotely true, which it is not, the alternative was to let the Republicans take what few dollars we have left and give them to people who already have piles of money.

I’m guessing you have a penchant for the cute dumb ones.
Posted by: Skip |
Should I guess you have some kind of Harold & Maude thing going?
You called pelosi intelligent. Still looking for evidence of that. I think she is a corrupt and an idiot.
btw, since she declared she was going to drain the swamp how many representatives have been found guilty of ethics violations? ZERO.

“Should I guess you have some kind of Harold & Maude thing going?”
That would be assuming I’m not the same age as Maude. Why doesn’t anybody refer to Sarah Palin as Granny Palin?

“The president said he misses daily, spontaneous interactions while living in a bubble. He said the job is lonely in another way — the gravity of sending troops off to war or responding to an attempted terrorist attack. “That side of the loneliness of the job is what I signed up for and I actually think I’m pretty good at,” he said.”
BTW – Say what you want about Bush, but I never recall him feeling sorry for himself.

WHERE ARE THEM JOBS? THATS ALL WE WANTED WAS A JOB>>>JUST A JOB>>>CAP AND TRADE NOPE> HEALTH CARE <<<NOPE….letting the rest of the world walk all over us. what a joke too bad its on us.

What people don’t understand is that the economy and health care issue is not going to just “bounce” back after only 1 year. The economy cannot just get back to the way it was before in 12 months. It will take years for it to be better again. People can be really ignorant sometimes because they don’t see the whole story. This man has worked his a$$ off this year and yet nobody seems to care. It doesn’t matter whether it was Obama or McCain who became president neither one of them can just “fix” the economy. So people can say what they want but nobody is a miracle worker.

Since Martin Luther King day is coming up, I’d like to share a quote from Martin Luther King
“Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.
“On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And the expedience comes along ad asks the question – is it politic? Vanity asks the question is it popular? Conscience asks the question – is it right?..There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.” (From the sermon “Remaining Awake through a Great Revolution.”)
So Obama is getting low scores for health care. Let’s look at the facts.
FACT: Our current dysfunctional health care system is the most expensive system in the world. It’s also the most inefficient.
FACT; According to a study by the Harvard University Medical School, 44,000 people die each year because of in adequate medical care. That’s a 9/11 every month.
FACT: Check out the 2009 CIA Fact book and a study by the OECD, and you’ll find that our infant mortality rate is twice as high as the infant mortality rates of Sweden or France. According to a recent study by the CDC, one reason for our high infant mortality rate is inadequate prenatal care, which is also one reason many deseprate women seek abortions.
FACT: 700,000 people file for bankruptcy each year because of medical bills. Most of these people had insurance.
FACT: Unless aggressive action is taken to stop Medicare fraud and abuse, including the fraud in Medicare Advantage, Medicare will go broke by 2016.
FACT: The health insurance industry is spending millions of dollars in lobbyists and misinformation campaigns. They are also funding the Tea-Baggers.
All of the Republicans as well as the Blue Dog Democrats are getting generous campaign contributions from health insurance companies. Since 2010 is an election year, you can expect health insurance companies to step up these contributions. If you have health insurance, you can expect your premiums to go up or your benefits to go down.
FACT: Right now our medical bills consume 1/6 of our economy. Unless something is done, we will be spending 40 % our income on health insurance premiums with no guarantee that we will get coverage when we get sick. Businesses cannot survive without customers. If everyone is going broke paying for health insurance, no one will be able to buy any of the goods or services that businesses offer. Health insurance premiums have a definite link to unemployment.
Obama’s abysmal scores might very well be a reflection on society, not on Obama. It might also indicate that society is misinformed about health care.
I am not totally happy with the current bills. We need a public option. We could let Medicare sell health insurance for everybody. But we cannot continue to do nothing. I admire Obama for his efforts to solve this problem – in spite of poll numbers.
The real problem is not Obama, but the greedy Republicans and Republicrats in the Senate who find nothing wrong with socialized medicine for themselves, but everything wrong with socialized medicine for every body else.

“I’m beginning to think Carter was more competent.”
Yeah right. You had your mind made up before he even took the oath of office. That should be the right-wing battle cry: “I have not yet begun to think”.

“what, exactly, are the areas by which his overall approval was pulled up to 50%?”
The tone of his skin?

Wait any minute Tierra will post Ronald Reagans 35% approval rating. She does it daily like it matters anymore. Obama could and will never be a Ronald Reagan.

But my disapproval on the Health Care Reform is Not against Obama.
No! My disapproval on the Health Care Reform is against the Conservatives.

That would be assuming I’m not the same age as Maude. Why doesn’t anybody refer to Sarah Palin as Granny Palin?
Posted by: Skip |
Why is it that every time I mention pelosi you mention palin? Are you just too ashamed of your speaker to try to defend her?

When I casted my vote in 2009, I study all candidates who I felt had the “business” knowledge, experience, and education to pull us out of our economic downturn…Putting aside social issues etc..temporarily for one term, and concentrating on strictly economical issues as I realize that in order to grow and maintain this Country in strength we would need to devote much of the attention to our economy…to make it healthy again….And….Obama and McCain were last on my list. It was for this reason that I did not vote for either McCain nor Obama but another candidate who barely made a showing….GUESS I WAS RIGHT….

Cindy – Just heard on the radio that the Republicans are afraid the Dems have a draw full of absentee ballots just waiting to be introduced if Brown should edge ahead! Do you believe that?? I sure do. It has happened there before.

“Why is it that every time I mention pelosi you mention palin? Are you just too ashamed of your speaker to try to defend her?”
Do I? If so it could be because I think of Sarah Palin as being the antithesis of Nancy Pelosi. And I do defend Speaker Pelosi: I have said many times Pelosi is highly intelligent and dedicated to her work, something I have never said of Sarah Palin.

Posted by: Parallex View
how can you say republicans are not good business wise or improve the economy..
they have a great track record, all the major economic calamities happen under republican administrations…… great depression, 80′s savings and loans, late 2008 financial collapse..

What exactly did some of you expect to happen after the president’s one year in office? Did anyone seriously believe things were going to go from the devastating economic crisis to a magical kingdom. I simply do not understand the falling support of a president who has done more than any human could have done after only one year in office. The fact that Republicans want the president to fail and, indeed, are doing everything they can to make sure that happens, is the reason for the mess in the senate and house. If Republicans want him to fail, why are they so afraid of the president’s proposals? Because they understand that if his proposals are passed, then things will improve drastically, and Repubs would have no chance of winning any more seats in the house or senate. Playing politics with people’s lives, especially chidren’s lives, is possibly the most disgusting thing some Republican congressmen have done this past year. Why not let President Obama have the programs he wants? If they are wrong for the country, then Republicans will easily win, not only congress, but the presidency in three years. It is very obvious why these so called Americans are doing their utmost to make sure his programs do not get approved.

Because they understand that if his proposals are passed, then things will improve drastically
Posted by: carrksc | Jan 13, 2010 1:24:34 PM
Really? Like 2013? Thats rapid?

Damn, there are alot of white racists out there now huh? Oh wait, his poll numbers are lower than his percentage of the presidential vote.
You mean his supporters are backing away from him now… WOW, cognitive dissonance CAN fade when confronted with reality.
There just may be “Hope for America” after all…

“What exactly did some of you expect to happen after the president’s one year in office?” Well, how about: More than spending the first three months doing nothing but rubber stamping the Democractic party’s backlogged “wish list” rather than working on the immediate problems in this country. More than coming up with handout programs like “Cash for Clunkers” to fix the unemployment situation in this country. More than paying people to assume mortgages to fix the housing and construction markets. More than talking about “shovel-ready” projects that have yet to materialize. More than pushing a way to pay for a broken health care system rather than actually working on identifying and fixing the problems. And from the numbers, I’m thinking a lot of swing voters that put him into office expected so as well.

Gallup is just a shill for GOPers. Err wait? Was it rasmussen, lol. If Obama is dropping in the polls then it must be Bushs fault! Oh wait? That argument really does not work either. Someone help us before we prove to America that liberals are incompetent.

Americans think he can blink and undo 30 yrs of conservative ideology that lead us to the financial collapse are living in a dream world.

30 years? Is that new math? Since when is either Bush been conservative? Plus 8 years of Clinton. Only Reagon was conservative. So, by calculations its more like 8 years of conservative administration.

I have a real question here. Why does everyone bring up the Republican Party and say they are the ones not getting this health care bill through. They dont have the numbers to do anything. 60-40 DEM. They have the majority. The DEMs have never asked input from REP. This is a one sided agrument and the one side still cant get it right. When you have controlled Congress for the last 3 years at least surely you can get what you want passed. Please give me some input here.

How can anyone approve of his handling of the economy? Obama’s Cap & Trade, Healthcare costs, higher taxes (personal/payroll/business), higher debt, card check, more regulations, necssarily higher energy costs (Obama’s own words), anti-business rhetoric and an administration with little business background are all making businesses uneasy about hiring and negatively affecting employment.
If you owned a business, do you think these policies would be good for you? No wonder businesses are moving overseas. Wake up America and get some common sense.

Why does the media perpetuate the myth that the U.S. President is Commander in Chief of the economy? There’s not an economist alive today that believes that US fiscal policy has any direct impact on the health of the economy. You pay the piper either way, either through taxes or through higher interest rates and inflation. It’s a zero sum game that gets wildly distorted for political purposes.
Monetary policy and the Federal Reserve is a different matter.

Obama Administration is still contending with the Bush Economy. From the first day George Bush came to the White House the US economy had been headed in a downward spiral. It is totally unrealistic for Americans to expect President Obama to correct in just one year, what took Bush over eight long years to wreck. Remember folks the Crash of Oct. 2008 was under Bush’s watch, the loss of 4 Trillion dollars in American’s retirement funds was under Bush’s watch, and the forclosure crisis of 2007 and 2008 under Bush’s watch as well. This is not Obama’s mess, it is Bush’s. Happy retirement George and thanks.

“How come whenever the newspaper headlines reads “Worst Unemployment Since…” or “Worst Home Forclosures since…” or “Highest Poverty levels since…” they’re always under a Republican administration?”
This is a great question, I’m glad you asked.
Think about it this way: How come when economic data is bad under a Democrat President, the headlines read “Higher Unemployment Provides Opportunities to Pursue Life Interests, Spend More Time with Family” or “Unemployed? Try FunEmployed!” or “Job Losses Have Slowed, Economy on the Upswing”.
The reason you see these headlines is due to the liberal, cheerleading MSM. Remember when Bush 43 was blistered when unemployment exceeded 5% while Obama gets a pass at 10%+?
With the Liberal MSM, things are never as bad as they seem when a Republican is in the WH, and not as good as they seem when a Democrat is in the WH.

” It is totally unrealistic for Americans to expect President Obama to correct in just one year,”
Actually, “honest” Abe we thought he could, after all didn’t he state he was going to make the sea levels drop? Instead we get a super rise is BS levels. And chalking up 2 trillion in debt , right off the bat that was suppose to go to shovel ready jobs wouldn’t have created some jobs had it not been used as a slush fund for unions and ficticious congressional districts.
Get a grip man, Bush is gone and this economy belongs to Barak Obama.

I agree with the first post, David….
Obama couldn’t possibly fix all the things that Georgie screwed up in one year but it doesn’t surprise me….I’ve been seeing these “approval” ratings since he first took office. I can’t stand reading about how he is doing anything and basically how some people think he sucks because the economy hasn’t gotten better. ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!! How does one fix such a huge deficit in one year??? Now come on people, let’s stop judging because he’s a dem or because he’s black and give him the credit he deserves for doing a pretty good job at the beginning of a long haul. I predict it will take him AT LEAST all 4 years of his presidency to halfway correct Georgie’s garbage

DOES ANYONE ACTUALLY KNOW SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN “POLLED”????
I read of these Gallop Polls all the time and I started to ask around to my family and friends and co-workers and etc, you get my my drift, right? I can’t find one person who has so where does this stuff come from??? Just curious

Posted by: AppDev | Jan 13, 2010 2:51:34 PM
So let’s just abolish Congress and appoint Barack as Emperor!
BTW – The reason many of the politically appointed positions are not filled are due to (a.) Obama’s dithering/delays, and (b.) nomination of questionable appointees.

Obama is NOT trying to fix anything. His goal (and that of his enire administration, including Rahm and all those idiotic Czars) is to sink this economy, so that he can continue his march towards a total government takeover,i.e., socialism.
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Paranoid, fear mongering exactly as described in the Anti-Defamation League report.

“DOES ANYONE ACTUALLY KNOW SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN “POLLED”????” Considering that polls (like the Neilson ratings) typically sample only a fraction of one percent it is highly unlikely that you ever will know of someone being polled. But I actually did participate in a Neilsen rating about 25 years ago.

Americans made a HUGE mistake electing Obama . The guy had zero experience running anything. What did we expect? A miracle? He is a one term president.

It is no wonder they are dropping and still so low with them likely headed even lower. what most who say Obama could not fix this in a year because of the last 8 years seam to forget is that the Dems have even in control of congress for the last three year! That’s before the tanking of the economy, the bail outs and the rest of the major trouble markers of Obama’s! So blaming Bush is not right and it’s gotten old also. So when do they or are they willing to say its Obama’s presidentsy? When will they step up and say yes the Dems for the last three years have helped bring things to were they are now being in the last three years nothing passed congress with out there stamp of approval! By the way Bush and Regan are not in office it is Obama! Obama made all the promises that he now refuses to keep like having this health care mess on C-span instead of behind closed doors! This is why people do not approve of him and never will as long as he will not keep it in the open!

Many of us wrote last year that no matter who was elected president, he/she would have a tough time getting reelected if he/she did what needed to be done to right this country from the tremendous wounds inflicted on it by Bush-Cheney. And many people don’t realize that the last Bush budget just ended at the end of September and that the GOP, from 2001-6 put time extensions on their tax and spending bills that keep them into effect into the 2010′s.

Of course you would find Tierra defending anything Obama.
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Comparing the track records of two presidents who inherited damaged economies makes a lot of sense – other than to Republicans – they’d prefer to just attack with no conscious thought or analysis allowed. Just blindly attack.

Actually, he’s not the worst, I would give that award to Bush but he isn’t achieving any kudos from me. His stimulus programs helped the auto industry, wall street and the banks(not me), the economy still sucks, health care might be a good thing but not as important as closing up shop in Iraq and Afghan. He needs to clamp down, less partying. Find a way to tax or get back all the bonus money from banks/wall street firms. If you needed a bailout, then all bonuses/perks are lost.

Well……yeah……and that’s being nice about it!

Obama”s approval keeps going down and his supporters blame the polls.
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The President’s approval rating is at 50% today in Gallup – about the same as it’s been for the past couple of months.
His approval does not ‘keep going down’.
Try to use facts, it helps to add the element of truth to your words.

Tierra, Obummers approval rating may be 50% popular rating but his rating on economy is 40% and his rating on health care is 37% …according to Gallup which leans left all the way…which really means these numbers should all be lower if Gallup were not in the pocket of the Obummer administration. These figures are TODAY’S figures! The fact that Obummer can’t keep a promise, raise taxes, lies through his teeth, throws the seniors under the buses, continues to try to make everything under government control and turn this country into a Chavez look-alike, he will be lucky he if lasts the entire 4 years.

Actually some people like me no longer care, one way or the other. I am hunkered down, owe no debt, have cash and assets out of the reach of the tax man and the welfare dependents, personal and corporate, invest in no stocks or bonds whatsoever, and am set for life. Play risk with my life for the sake of a political party, a company or even the nation? No way. As Rev. Wright’s “god damn America” seems to be working, I am working to not participate in the downfall. Laughing out loud at those who care to defend anything more than their own families.

“Reagan fell to 35% approval during his first term – because of a poor economy. You can bet his ratings on some issues were even lower that 35%. The current President is doing excellent compared to that.”
How are you able to stick your fingers in your ears, shout, stomp your feet, and type all at the same time?

“Reagan fell to 35% approval during his first term – because of a poor economy. You can bet his ratings on some issues were even lower that 35%. The current President is doing excellent compared to that.”
How are you able to stick your fingers in your ears, shout, stomp your feet, and type all at the same time?
Posted by: tjp612 | Jan 13, 2010 5:03:16 PM
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When the Republicans have no argument or facts in their favor, they resort to personal insult and attack. Setting the moral tone for the nation. Sad.

Posted by: tierra | Jan 13, 2010 5:08:09 PM
“When the Republicans have no argument or facts in their favor, they resort to personal insult and attack. Setting the moral tone for the nation. Sad. ”
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This is probably the ironic post of the month.
Seriously – please peruse these blogs and note the mouth-frothing, vein-popping, anti-intellectual comments by liberals on these blogs.
That a liberal poster could make such a comment in the context of this storm of liberal bile should be a key indication to any neutral observer as to the believability of comments made from such quarters.

ABC-you are Obama protectors. You should work for Russia News Agency Tass. You are obviously stopping comments that don’t further your boy’s cause. Don’t worry he is going to fail miserably with or without your help.

When the Republicans have no argument or facts in their favor, they resort to personal insult and attack. Setting the moral tone for the nation. Sad.
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This is probably the ironic post of the month.
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LOL – that is exactly right. When I look at the things that the left says about politicians they dislike it I am always amazed at just how deeply disturbed some of these people really are. It makes me laugh.
They start out with this attitude of “let’s all mellow out and look at some alternative ideas…” and Gawd help you if you disagree. They hate you, your family and pretty much everyone you ever met. Not only do they want you dead they want to star in the “Texas Chain Saw Massacre XX through XXIV”
It all started with this “let’s mellow out and look at a different, softer way.”

I am more than ready to hear that Obama is being impeached and think once the dems are pushed out at the end of the year then it very likely that Obama will be. Geez, the guy is a fraud is the best thing I can say for him. Other than that, he is dumb as rocks, completely dishonest, can’t tell the truth even if his life depended on it, and completely clueless.

So where is all the c-span coverage of the health care debates? Why isn’t there any outrage on this from ABC? All we get from the WH press room is some idiotic statement about Obama/Pelosi/Reid huddling all night and that ‘progress is being made’ – what a joke.

So where is all the c-span coverage of the health care debates? Why isn’t there any outrage on this from ABC? All we get from the WH press room is some idiotic statement about Obama/Pelosi/Reid huddling all night and that ‘progress is being made’ – what a joke.
Posted by: Bill | Jan 13, 2010 10:23:51 PM
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I don’t understand why there is any outrage from Republicans? You didn’t want any government transparency anyhow. You supported Bush and McCain etc didn’t you? The way I see it you got exactly what you wanted so why the sour face?
It’s often amazing to me how people can complain when they’ve been handed the dessert they ordered for so many times over and over again…….

It doesn’t seem to matter at this point where the polls are. The dems seem hell bent to pass this thing even if the American people are totally opposed to it… It seems suicidal for many dems, but there may be another motive in this for them…

Im so tired of hearing that Bush was the cause of all our problems. Doesn’t anyone remember how many times Bush tried to get congress to investigate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? He was advised about the problems, and told they could lead to terrible crisis if they didn’t act. Seventeen times (17) he called on congress to take action to reform Fannie and Freddie…and the congress refused to act. Obama was among the people who refused to act as well. Obviously, they didn’t care to protect America from a crisis.
So…the Democrats and RINOS are to blame, and I wonder how they can hold up their heads now. If they had listened to Bush could have diverted this crises. Take off your blinders, people!