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Obama’s economic illiteracy contributing to his sliding approval rating

The prez decided to take to the airwaves last week to sell us on his socialist piece of garbage he likes to call a “public option” health care plan.  Bad move:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 29% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11. That’s the first time his ratings have reached double digits in negative territory.
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The number who Strongly Approve of the President has remained unchanged since the press conference but the number who Strongly Disapprove has gone up by five percentage points (from 35% on Wednesday morning to 40% today).

That’s right.  In addition to using that presser to slam the cops (despite, by his own admission, not having all of the facts), he laid out his case for socialized medicine, and he failed.

One of the biggest concerns over ObamaCare is the price tag.  B.O. decided to address this concern by coming up with a key component to improve quality and contain costs.  Google “Independent Medicare Advisory Council”, or IMAC.  His budget director Peter Orszagsaid this component was “probably the most important piece that can be added” to the legislation.  The “most imporant piece”, the CBO tells us, will result in at best a whopping 0.2% savings in cost.  Therefore, The One has decided to wage war with the CBO, a classic “slay the messenger” case.  At any rate, the poorly conceived IMAC idea appears to be deader than a Chicago Democrat voter.

Meanwhile, Ford decided not to be taken over by Team O, and as a result of not being run by the federal government, they actually posted a $2bn quarterly profit.  I love my Saturn and have been a loyal Saturn customer over the years, but it will be the last GM car I ever own.  Ford shows that it can function without governmental takeover, and if they ever ditch their unionized workforce, they can really soar into productivity.  Uhhhh-bama had better hope that the economy turns around, otherwise the taxpayer-funded bailout of the unions…er, Ford’s competitors GM and Chrysler…will have been for naught.

Cap-and-tax?  Americans say “not gay enough” “No, thanks, and I’ll thank you to stay out of my affairs!”

“Stimulus”?  Americans say “not gay enough” it has done jack squat.

As a result of all of this, Zogby (take that for whatever it’s worth) has his overall approval rating among likely voters at 48% approve, and 49% disapprove.  It is becoming increasingly clear that the Obamarxist in Chief is a functional illiterate when it comes to economics.  One wonders how much more of his illiteracy the country can take.

July 27, 2009 Posted by crushliberalism | big government, economic ignorance, environuts, health care, Obama | 6 Comments