Poll: Confidence in Congress lowest ever for any U.S. institution
By: Pam On: Jun/20/08 - 18 Comments
EVER! The good news is that the military came in highest!
EVER! The good news is that the military came in highest!
Fred DawesWell yes Obama would tell his main Bitchs to back off, after all Obama said he is a Muslim over 30 times In...
The Pink FlamingoUPDATED: It has recently come to my attention that there are indeed two John Brimelows in this...
RobertWhat is needed is not to threaten or overthrow the US Govt, but to restore it. Restore it to to the health,...
libbie basherRobert Hassan has no worries, the legal arm of the Democratic party (The ACLU) will lawyer him up so...
libbie basherIt is sad the state of affairs in this country. 40+ years of liberalism has ruined this once great...
Coltonthis post has inspired me, i need to get back to posting on my blog soon, its so easy to loose track of time...
Fred DawesI do cry when i think of our future and bon bon you are right. the next blood bath will be 100 million dead.
Scotty HancockI just wanted to thank you very much for this illuminating article. I have already bookmarked your...
RobertBy now Hassan should be an icon and martyr of the American Left. Because he’s a victim! He always tried...
The Pink Flamingo“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from...
Teh Resistance BlogItem Number Three: Democrats are pitching a fit over plans to burn Nancy Pelosi in effigy at an...
BonBonCan anyone even begin to imagine what the left would be shouting if Bush had told Congress to back off of an...
BonBonHistorically speaking REAL americans are not above a revolution. I can definitely see one coming. Sometimes I...
RobertThe Nobama Administration is reportedly working behind the scenes to sign international treaties that would ban...
snowy egretIts too bad none of those victims had a gun and sent that shooter to the morgue with a bullet holes in his...
RobertI’m not even thinking about the concept of a second term for this disaster. I’m still worried about...
BonBonOne term president. God help us if he gets elected again. My fears are that the next time we’ll get a...
RobertYes, you’re right, it has and will. Predictably, of course as you point out. Just as we all predicted...
BonBonBut you know Robert, not admitting their mistakes is going to cost a whole lot more american lives. I’m...
RobertIn their rush to undermine and discredit Bush the Left has painted itslef into a corner. Now even the ones that...
June 20, 2008 - 09:31 PM on June 20th, 2008
Here’s a better poll…
“The latest NEWSWEEK Poll shows Obama with a 15-point lead over McCain.”
http://www.newsweek.com/id/142465/page/1
Edited by Pam from here:
So much for that bounce they talked about:
RCP:
RCP Average 06/12 – 06/19 – 47.5(O) 42.0(M) Obama +5.5
I guess it depends on what the outcome is they are looking for though!
* USAT/Gallup: Obama 50, McCain 44
* Newsweek: Obama 51, McCain 35
That’s quite a difference but then again it was the Newsweek poll you cited!
June 21, 2008 - 11:09 AM on June 21st, 2008
Thanks Pam! So much for that bounce???Are you kidding?!!
LOL…ALL the polls (from your link) show Obama ahead of McCain AND it shows the Dems in congressional races leading almost double digits…
This election is looking like it might be the most dismal performance by Republicans in decades.
June 21, 2008 - 01:25 PM on June 21st, 2008
As Reagan once said, “Its going to get worse before it gets better”. At least its in proper hands now.
NYD
June 21, 2008 - 04:20 PM on June 21st, 2008
SFL, when the Dems get over confident and lose with their corrupt members going to jail, mind if I victory dance on your face?
June 21, 2008 - 05:33 PM on June 21st, 2008
Obama should have a 15-20 point lead in the RCP, but he doesn’t, nor does he have the money on hand that he should for the 500 million raised.
It’s early for those races SFL..look at the approval ratings.
June 21, 2008 - 06:52 PM on June 21st, 2008
I think Hillary will do Obama in, as who the hell will believe either one of those yokum’s sucking up to each other now. Hillary just wants her 20 million plus debt paid and Obama “Baby Daddy” just wants the dumb women vote. If any one is that big of sucker, they deserve whatever they get. Lolipop, Lolipop, Oh, LoliLoli Pop!
June 21, 2008 - 07:11 PM on June 21st, 2008
I will have to give the Congress, Obama, Dems, & Liberals credit for one thing. They are the 8th Wonder of The World. Nothing can top their ‘idiotocracy’ which is their new ‘democrazy.’ This in turn will issue in a new world Government and Religion that will be made up as they go. I say this is very grievous, and sad. Vote McCain to turn this around, before the world stops spinning.
June 21, 2008 - 07:17 PM on June 21st, 2008
Only balls bounce, and Obama has no balls!
June 22, 2008 - 08:11 AM on June 22nd, 2008
Note to self:
“Quit eating just before reading Caolyne’s posts”.
NYD
June 22, 2008 - 06:28 PM on June 22nd, 2008
#3. David I take it you didn’t live through or remember the last time someone with Obama’s policies was in the White House. Unemployment and inflation both more than doubled to over 15% each. There were gas lines around the block, every other day refueling, daylight savings started a month earlier that resulted in school kids waiting for buses in the dark. Yes, I remember the Carter Administration. Obama’s will be much worse. McCain’s won’t be much better unless we get some conservative Republicans in Congress with spines. McCain is supposedly a maverick, but in fact he’s a Rino.
June 22, 2008 - 06:35 PM on June 22nd, 2008
And the Pelosi-Reid Congress, having shown nothing but utter incompetence, dares to point fingers at Bush for his approval rating when theirs is even lower.
That’s what I mean by Demo-Crite.
June 22, 2008 - 09:34 PM on June 22nd, 2008
10 – Interesting point about the likeness of the two. Carter’s administration came at the heels of a Republican one whose claim to fame was progress in meeting with China, largely brokered under his nose by Kissinger. Carter got left with an extremely expensive war to pay for, runaway gas prices, which brought on inflastion. I don’t give Carter high marks for his managerial capability. someone from GA could probably comment better. Obama will have to pay for a war he didn’t start, secure a country that the last guy still didn’t secure (see Bin Laden locked up anywhere? I don’t.) and deal with inflation that will continue in this country after the war is over. As you seemed to be historically aware, this has been the case after every major conflict since the Revolution, no matter who is in office.
I would like to see a long range energy plan from either candidates. Open drilling is a start, but if that is all that is done, it will go down as a knee-jerk reaction. There should be discusion about responding to an environmental disaster, such as what happened in Prince Wm Sound in Alaska. Exxon paid a paltry amount of the cleanup that your and my tax dollars had to go in and do.
NYD
June 23, 2008 - 11:12 AM on June 23rd, 2008
Sorry to burst your bubbles, but the approval rating of the Congress as a whole is a completely meaningless statistic. Everyone hates Congress — it ALWAYS has rock-bottom approval ratings (find me a moment in recent memory when its rating crested 50%) — but people still might love their individual congressman.
What you have to look at is the (dis)approval ratings of individual members of Congress, as those individuals will be the one’s running for re-election — nobody votes ‘yes’ or ‘no’ for Congress. Right now, the only statistics I’ve found have indicated that the Republican members of Congress have lower approval ratings than the Democratic members (though neither has anything approaching the low ratings of Congress as a whole). This is the statistic to be concerned with.
Bush’s terrible approval ratings, however, actually reflect people’s take on how Bush the individual is doing his job (since you can’t analytically divide the American presidency from the individual serving that role).
June 23, 2008 - 02:35 PM on June 23rd, 2008
Yes Congress has historically had a low approval. What does it take to drive approval even lower? Nacy Pelosi and Harry Redi.
June 23, 2008 - 02:50 PM on June 23rd, 2008
I’m not following you here. If the public is disgusted with Reid and Pelosi, why are the democrats leading in all of the poles?
June 23, 2008 - 05:15 PM on June 23rd, 2008
Are other Democrats leading? Or are you talking about Obama?
Regarding Obama, even people are fed up with Congress, Obama is different. He’s fresh, he’s new. He is saying things no one has said before. He’s a uniter, you know. He say in Wright’s “church” for 20 years learning how to unite!
He’s the New Messiah!
June 24, 2008 - 12:53 AM on June 24th, 2008
Actually, Carter’s taxation policies and Obama’s taxation policies are very much alike. Raise rates to claim that you’re soaking the rich, while destroying the middle class. Rising tax rates cause unemployment and inflation as the money to pay those taxes have to come from somewhere. Same goes for minimum wage hikes. Whenever minimum wage goes up, so does unemployment among those earning minimum wage. Why? Because businesses can’t pay an employee more than the employee brings in. Hence when minimum wage goes up, the available payroll dollars stay the same. When you only have x numbers of dollars to spend on payroll the number of employee hours go down when per hour costs rise. It’s a simple mathematical equation. Payroll = rate x hours. When payroll is fixed and rates are raised, hours are reduced. Any program that raises tax rates, interferes with a business’s ability to operate efficiently thereby reducing the amount of revenues that the business can bring in and then pay taxes on to the government. Milton Friedman once said that if revenues increase after a tax rate cut, you haven’t cut them far enough.
Obama has said that raising tax rates isn’t about raising revenues, it’s about fairness. If taxes aren’t being leveed to raise revenues, why are they being leveed at all?
June 24, 2008 - 07:38 AM on June 24th, 2008
16. In the only numbers on the senate races I’ve seen, democrats are faring a lot better than the republicans. It looks like the senate will probably swing more strongly to the left. Less money will be spent on swift-boat-style chicanery in these races, so I don’t expect too many huge surprises.
If Obama does get in, which he certainly might not (though at this point, he’s leading, and that’s the only solid information that you or I possess), he’ll probably have carte blanche.