Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs
Tuesday, March 09, 2010

According to Gallup, Barack Obama entered the presidency with a net approval rating (i.e. percent approve minus percent disapprove) of 56%. This past weekend, he was at just +1%. No newly elected President has fallen so far so fast since polling began.

Some pundits that the drop is entirely due to the stagnant economy. They like to draw a comparison to Ronald Reagan, whose numbers fell quickly as he dealt with a recession early in his term. No doubt some of Obama's decline is related to the recession, but the 44th President - unlike the 40th - was elected when the economy was already contracting. This gives Obama political cover that Reagan did not have. Just 7% of Americans, according to a recent CBS News/New York Times poll, blame Obama for the recession.

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Note to Moderate Dems who staunchly oppose the Senate healthcare bill:

If the House signs the bill, word-for-word, it will NOT go into reconciliation in order to accommodate your concerns. The Senate will immediately hand the bill to Obama and he will sign it.

Do not vote for the bill unless you include language that assuages your collective concerns. Then, and only then, will the senate be forced to attempt to reconcile your concerns in a manner that is agreeable to both houses. If that happens, the senate will likely be able to twist enough arms and offer up enough bribes to get 50 votes for the bill EXACTLY as you've rewritten it(Biden will break the tie). At this point all your party leadership and the president care about is signing a bill; any bill. Don't be duped into believing that if you sign the bill as it currently exists that the senate will then go into reconciliation anyways to address your concerns.

PS - your party leadership and your president suck ass.

Note to Moderate Dems, don't take advice from Republicans. They only want to see the President and the Democratic Party fail. Pass the bill on to the Senate and the President for signing.

Note to DANNI, this isn't an American Idol contest where we're here to make sure Obysmal gets the prize!

Note to Democrats: Remember you represent the American people and NOT a political party. You are there to speak for US and WE do not want this bill.

Note to Moderate Dems, don't take advice from Republicans. They only want to see the President and the Democratic Party fail.
Posted by danni

Funny, the majority of Americans are now Republicans when it comes to this lousy bill?

-Funny, the majority of Americans are now Republicans when it comes to this lousy bill?

More like both Righties and Lefties have problems, different problems, with the Bill.

People who favor a public option and people who who have been persuaded that this is an ebil gubmint takeover (as if) both dislike the Bill.

More like both Righties and Lefties have problems, different problems, with the Bill.

All the more reason to scrap it and start over.

#2 | Posted by danni at 2010-03-09 07:57 AM | Reply | Flag: Rah, Rah, Rah!

first of all...anyone who believes that pricks like stupec will not FOLD like a cheap suit after being "PRODDED" in the shower and other places by rhom are living in a real fantasy....

and then there is actually NO SUCH thing as a moderate democrat...not if they voted yea on cap and tax or obamacare.....

heres' hopin they have a dogcatcher or PARADE WORKER behind the horses job ready

-All the more reason to scrap it and start over.

All the more reason to hold our noses and pass the first steps of the Muslim Socialist Health Care Utopia.

We have been standing up to them. There just is not enough of us thanks to the decades of Kennedy money.

All the more reason to hold our noses and pass the first steps of the Muslim Socialist Health Care Utopia.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2010-

please move up and to the right and watch and listen to the thread of the socialist giving a speech at one of the SO CALLED education demonstration of last week....

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