Could it all be falling apart for Obama and the Democrats? Read this post and you begin to wonder:
As The Washington Post reports, Obama has begun lobbying Congress with a vengeance on health-care. Democrats are talking about wanting to have a health-care bill passed by the time of the August recess, though many are doubtful that this deadline will be met. Part of this urgency is due, no doubt, to the fact that members of the left have been dreaming for decades about some kind of “universal health-care” (or at least a nationalized system of delivering health-care, which is different from universal health-care). But part of it may be motivated by an anxiety that the Obama administration and, if they’re not careful, Congressional Democrats may be on a trip to the negative side of public opinion polling.
Consider this CBS poll, which may oversample Democrats, that shows Obama dropping six points over the past month, from 63% approval to 57%. CBS polling also showed Obama dropping five points from May to June (from 68% to 63%). So that’s an 11-point drop over two months. CBS is not an outlier in this; other polls have also noticed declines in support for Obama, especially among independents. Those polled also seem to have lost a significant amount of trust in Obama’s handling of the economy.
Fast forward to the middle of early part of September, when Congress returns to work. Say the economic situation continues to worsen. Say the exploding national debt begins to weigh more heavily on the minds of Americans. Say other controversies gnaw away at the administration’s public appeal. We could be seeing Obama’s approval numbers in the mid-40s (57-11=46). At that point, he could have significantly less leverage to apply to recalcitrant members of Congress.
Please go read the whole post, it is a very, very credible scenario. Obama’s political checks may begin to bounce as soon as the next unemployment report. If the White House was getting desperate to pass legislation before their poll numbers dropped to a point where their political checks were no longer good what would it look like?
Maybe a lot like it does today?
The longer the public has to study the impacts of the Pelosi-born crap and tax bill and her health care “reform” the less likely it is that Democrats facing reelection next year are going to put their necks on Pelosi’s chopping block.
The more the public learns of the two bills, the more damage Obama takes in the polls. They are pulling out the stops to try to ram these pieces of legislation through before a critical mass of people read about the economy-killing details of the plans.
What would desperation on Obama’s part look like? Would it look different from what we are seeing?
You’re correct.
They are desperate, and they are going to fail on some fronts.
For us, it’s now past the time for polls, it’s the time for mass resistance to collectivism, and the re-emergence of free market economics.
Otherwise, it’s barter, black market AND the barrels of our guns!
They are trying very hard to get stuff passed before a majority of the general public awakens from the Obamessiah induced trance they’ve been in for so long. More people are waking every day which is why his poll numbers have started a steady decline. The August deadline shows that even he and his disciples don’t think they have much longer to push things through. You will hear him harp on this daily from now on.