Title: "Suppose you were an idiot; and suppose you were a member of
Congress
What is supremely irritating is that
the very next morning, the administration seemed to be "doubling down"
on Obama-care. There has been poll after poll in state after state that
shows that folks don't want it. LA Republican Senator Vitter, who was
found on a client list of a Washington madam, should be toast as a
Republican, but he's not. In fact, poll show him leading in the
Republican primary and leading his likely Democratic opponent 55/45.
For all of the supposed brain power in this administration you would
think that someone was paying attention. I have come to believe that
this administration is more driven by Marxist ideology than brains.
We've elected a communist or a fascist. And Russia and China are BOTH
warning us about going too far down this road.
David
"Suppose
you were an idiot; and suppose you were a member of
Congress...ah, but I repeat myself."—Mark
Twain
On 1/21/2010 12:34 PM, [email protected] wrote:
from the site : Sphere
Opinion: A Case of Buyer's Remorse
(Jan. 20) – It doesn't take a rocket scientist or a pollster
to know that Americans are not happy with Washington. The honeymoon
that greeted President Obama a year ago today has degenerated into
hypercriticism, deep anxiety and downright anger.
That may sound more like a high-profile Hollywood divorce than a
political analysis, yet in some ways that's exactly what Americans are
going through right now. Make no mistake: Americans were giddy about
getting rid of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, but they are clearly
suffering from buyer's remorse a year later.
The seeds of Obama's current political dilemma were sown the day of his
inauguration. The expectations heaped on his shoulders were clearly
impossible to sustain, and there was little effort by his
administration to dampen the "hope" that had propelled him from
first-term senator to first African-American president. And when those
expectations weren't met, someone had to be held accountable.
Polling done over the past 30 days paints a very clear picture of a
president who has fallen short of expectations:
• Only 39 percent of the country would vote to re-elect Obama,
according to a National Journal poll, while 50 percent would
"definitely" or "probably" vote for someone else. This is significant.
George W. Bush is the only candidate in modern times to win re-election
with less than half of the country expressing a desire to re-elect him.
• According to Gallup, Obama has suffered the greatest fall in
approval of any elected president since the company started ongoing
tracking during the Eisenhower administration. Obama came into office
with the approval of two out of every three voters (67 percent) but
ended his first year with just half the electorate (50 percent)
offering a positive evaluation of his performance. Only the unelected
Gerald Ford fared worse in the court of public opinion.
• It's not just the Obama agenda that is under attack. It is his
philosophy that has America balking. For example, Americans are
increasingly returning to the conservative ideology they held before
the perceived failures of the Bush administration crushed conservative
self-identification levels. According to Gallup, fully 40 percent of
Americans now identify themselves as conservative, compared with just
21 percent who call themselves liberal.
• And finally, while the Republican brand has barely moved since its
electoral disasters of 2006 and 2008 and remains unpopular, Democratic
popularity has collapsed as well. Most surveys now have the GOP even or
even slightly ahead in the generic congressional ballot, and Americans
now see the Republicans to be as good if not better in handling the
economy.
But the single most damning polling result doesn't mention Obama or his
administration or even government in general. Rather, it's the collapse
of intergenerational optimism that had characterized American attitudes
and driven the American spirit of achievement for more than half a
century.
Only 12 percent of Americans believe their "quality of life" is worse
today than when their parents were their age, but nearly half (44
percent) believe their children will be worse off than them. Worse yet,
57 percent believe their children will "inherit a worse America." Once
the most hopeful nation on the globe, we are now a pessimistic nation
to our core.
But after all the polling and focus groups have concluded and all the
conflicting opinions recorded, in the end it is the American people who
rightfully have the last word. In no less than three states that voted
for Obama just one year ago (New Jersey, Virginia and yesterday in
Massachusetts), voters replaced their Democratic representatives with
Republicans.
That says more than any pollster ever could.
_______________________
Frank Luntz is the author of the New York Times
bestseller
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