So much for that Republican mandate. In this particular poll, the independents line up closer to Democrats than Republicans on a number of issues. Most startling, assuming that you are a Kool-Aid drinking right-wing droneabotmaton, is that Obama comes out on top of this particular heap...by a HUGE margin. Ouch...
I really don't see how anyone supports 90% of the hacks we have representing us, this includes Mr Obama. They cannot negotiate, will not even attempt to pass legislation to help the country. All they care about are the people who paid for their election and their political party. F the country.
Boehner and McConnell are big spending Republicans. Neither has pushed for anything even remotely close to a balanced budget, why would anyone have any confidence in them going forward. I say get rid of both and any other person who says they are "conservative" but won't push for balanced budgets. So of course its not surprising that Republicans of all stripes have less faith in their congressional leaders, they aren't doing what Republicans want them to do. As for Democrats I have the same amount of faith in them, a big fat zero.
I'm a staunch conservative and I have little or no confidence the establishment politicians like Boehner and McConnell to change Washington. What libs fail to see is that I trust Obama even less. So that doesn't mean Democrats are moving back into power. It just means that Boehner and McConnell better watch their step if they want to remain leaders.
The numbers don't really surprise considering Republicans are doing everything in their power to stall job creation.
Not really but I know that is the message that Obama and the libs want to spread. Besides, many Obama voters are looking for bigger handouts rather than a job.
Not just job creation. I mean, they are doing ALL they can to make sure that job creation is anemic. They are also doing their best to dismantle the very infrastructure that made this country the economic powerhouse that it used to be.
This PEW poll is not as reliable as some of the others but it does show the more partisan stance of the dems. While Barry's support among dems has remained steady it has dropped among independents and rose three point among Republicans. Dems in lock step with their far left leader. If Republicans were as partisan as dems the Republican confidence level would be 10 points higher and the dems would be 12 points lower. That would give the Republicans a score of 45 and dems a score of 31.
And the independents whose responses show a huge gap with the Republicans... are they being partisan as well?
Barack Obama's Most Recent Weekly Approval Rating Average: 41% (Sep 19-25, 2011) independents are more consistent and contrary to what you say the independents think more of Republicans than dems. Dems are higher than Republicans because of Republicans.
With an 8 pt margin of error, there are no HUGE gaps. Nothing but wishful thinking. Grasping for a thread of hope. Desperation. Obama's toast.
My favorite part of your link is certainly when you click on the For detailed information about our survey methodology, see: http://people-press.org/methodology/detailed. You get this message: Page Not Found That pretty much says it all. Thanks for the laugh.
That is not true at all. Both sides seem to differ on what they believe is the best way to create jobs. To imply Republicans are doing everything to stop job creation is to imply you believe the Democrat way is the only way that will work. Which leads me to ask have you ever contemplated the notion that it might not be the best way to create jobs? Or that it may create jobs in the short run but government choosing which markets to saturate with cash may cause unforeseen consequences in other areas of the economy costing jobs? Or perhaps that stimulus only really creates jobs as long as the money flows and when that runs out most of the jobs disappear again? We need to start doing some critical thinking about things instead of just jumping on a bandwagon because what they say sounds good to you, and they found an economist who says its the greatest plan since sliced bread.
This is the latest Democrat crap du jour that they use to whine about ever since they lost the House. They still have the presidency and the Senate, and you've got to wonder why they didn't do some magic act to "create jobs" during the two year period they had all the power in the entire Congress! But now, just because Republicans haven't been standing in line to kiss Obama's ass, they're obstructionists! The last time Obama got a stimulus bill passed, how many permanent private sector jobs did he create? Why should we throw any more money down the same stupid, socialist rat hole? Any way you look at it, when Obama took office, the unemployment rate was about 8.1%. Now, after two and a half years of Obama's expert leadership the unemployment rate is 9.1%. How about it, liberals? WHAT THE HELL WENT WRONG? Oh, yeah, the mean old Wepubwickans are obstwucting Obama's beautiful plan, right? What a bunch of morons.
Makes no sense at all.Which also expolains why Obama got elected. Hhis message of Hope & Change and being transformational was also nonsensical.He just lied is all.The most Divisive President on our History,already. The most Corrupt.The most given to Lobbyists. He lied about everything in order to appease and placate. he can;t even some to admit until the last half week that he was engaged in Class Warfare. At this stage I think Independents deserve Obama. Screw Independents.They are lackadaiscally lazy thinkers. They are Democrats in sheeps clothing.Nothing more.
They will say what went wrong is that we didn't spend enough, but now that the stimulus is essentially spent and done with for the most part, they are pushing for 500 billion more. But that begs the question how is that going to be enough when the first trillion wasn't? It would be one thing if we still have the other trillion to spend and could combine them for a collective 1.5 trillion to dish out. Assuming of course they are right and it just needs to be bigger. Fact is they are tied to their ideology, they won't even for a second contemplate the fact that it might not work. "It wasn't big enough" is impossible to prove and it helps them rationalize their partisan stance. The only way we could prove it is by just letting them take and spend the amount they feel needs to be spent. At least then we would be called compromisers as we go farther into fiscal disarray.
