AP poll takes a little snooze from reality
Rasmussen has B.O.’s overall approval rating at a pitiful 43%. The pollster shows that the number of people who strongly support B.O. is at 22%, while the number who strongly oppose his policies are nearly doubled, 43%.
Every poll has B.O. under 50%. So what does the state-run AP do? Why, commission a poll showing B.O.’s approval “holding fairly steady” at 53%, naturally! Ed notices a slight sampling problem, though:
An asset for his rank and file? Hardly. The AP only reaches that conclusion by surveying adults rather than registered or likely voters, which are polls more suited to predicting outcomes for elections. The AP knows this, but apparently couldn’t be bothered to adjust its polling technique to more accurately predict electoral behavior — or wanted to put its finger on the scale without too many people discovering its game.
The partisan gap in this sample is another big reason. While poll after poll shows that gap nearly disappearing, the AP sample has a whopping 11-point advantage for Democrats, 45/34, including independent leaners (page 31). Without the leaners, it’s 33/23. Bear in mind that Obama got elected in November 2008 with a seven-point advantage in the popular vote — and that was with significant Republican crossover voting. The AP’s partisan split at that time was 48/34, 40/24 without leaners.
Nope…no liberal media bias!
Quote of the day, “Dan Rather links Obama and watermelons” edition
When I first read about this, I had to make sure it was authentic, i.e. not on one of Dan Rather’s memos. Nope, it’s real. Here’s what the disgraced former newsman said to Leg Tingles Matthews on MSDNC about B.O.’s inability to get America to drink the Kool-Aid on socialized medicine:
Part of the undertow in the coming election is going to be President Obama’s leadership. And the Republicans will make a case and a lot of independents will buy this argument. “Listen he just hasn’t been, look at the health care bill. It was his number one priority. It took him forever to get it through and he had to compromise it to death.” And a version of, “Listen he’s a nice person, he’s very articulate” this is what’s been used against him, “but he couldn’t sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.”
The video clip is at this link, and you’ll note Tingles trying to talk over Gunga Dan in order to prevent further humiliation. Both of Matthews’ viewers were mortified.
Exit question (and one that you can see coming a mile away): Care to imagine what the reaction would be from the left and the MSM (pardon the redundancy) had this analogy come from a conservative?
Quote of the day, “Pelosi says pass the health bill FIRST and THEN find out what’s in it” edition
I am sooooooo looking forward to this San Fran wench getting relegated back to the minority where she belongs. Details from the nag’s mouth:
But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
Don’t read the bill first, folks. If you do, then it’ll ruin the ending as to how awesomely McAwesome this health care thingy really is!
Crist down by 32 to Rubio in today’s poll
Charlie Crist is going down faster than Ted Kennedy’s car at Chappaquiddick. Details:
Rubio now leads Crist 60-28, including a staggering 71-17 lead with conservatives. Crist has a 49-36 advantage with party moderates, but they account for just 31% of likely primary voters compared to 65% who describe themselves as conservative.
Rubio is benefiting from a widely held sentiment among Florida GOP voters that Congressional Republicans are too liberal and that Crist would add to the problem. 41% of them think that the party leadership in Washington is too liberal, and with those folks Rubio holds an 83-10 lead. 50% think that Crist himself is too liberal and with those voters Rubio’s advantage expands even wider to 90-5.
It also looks like it’s too late for Crist to audible and make another run for Governor. GOP voters say they’d prefer likely nominee Bill McCollum over Crist by a 49-35 margin. In fact Republicans generally just want Crist to go away- 56% say they’d like him out of office a year from now to 19% who’d like to see him continue as Governor and only 14% who want him in the Senate.
Hard to believe that a guy with such big national aspirations is now a massive failure at the state level within his own party. It wouldn’t surprise me if he were to pull a Specter and switch to the Dem side, or pull a Jeffords and switch to the Dem…er, “independent” side. Not that it will make a difference one way or the other.
Obama’s economic ignorance is profound when it comes to health care
Dude’s a buffoon, and we all know it. Here’s B.O.’s quote demonizing the health insurance industry:
“Every year, they raise premiums higher and higher,” Obama said “They will keep doing this for as long as they can get away with it.”
By the way, while President Training Wheels slams the industry for having the audacity to profit, the ObamaCare plan basically writes a $330+ billion check to the health insurance companies. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? “You guys make too much money and ought to be ashamed of yourself! So, to teach you a lesson, I’m giving you a 1/3-trillion dollar check. Guess you’ll be more careful in the future, now won’t you?”
But John at Powerline breaks it down beautifully:
Obama says insurers will raise premiums “as long as they can get away with it.” You could say the same about a lot of people, of course. We lawyers have tended to raise our rates as long as we could “get away with it.” Obama’s labor union supporters negotiate to raise their wages “as long as they can get away with it.” The newspapers that made Obama a national figure raise their advertising rates “as long as they can get away with it.” Any manufacturer will raise the price of its goods “as long as they can get away with it.” To do otherwise could expose management to legal liability to shareholders. What stops all of us from raising our prices indefinitely? Why, at some point, can’t we “get away with it?”
The answer is competition. Any company will–and should–raise the prices of its goods or services until they reach the point where they are constrained by competition. Our government has followed a perverse policy with regard to health care, by limiting the extent to which health insurers can compete against each other and thereby constrain each others’ prices. The obvious solution, if we want to rein in health insurance costs, is to 1) broaden competition in the industry to the maximum amount possible, and 2) repeal all mandates that require insurance companies to charge for coverages that many people don’t want.
Exactly. But the goal isn’t quality, affordable healthcare. The goal is statist control over the lives of every American. When they own your health, they own you.
Poll: Americans less respected in the world today than under the evil fiend Bush
The poll was conducted by two liberal groups, too. Although the results show that America’s standing in the world has been severely tarnished over the last 14 months, you have to wonder if liberals consider that to be a bug or a feature.
I’m stunned, though. I mean, who knew that a global apology/groveling tour by B.O., trying to close Gitmo, wanting to meet with genocidal dictators without preconditions, wanting to give civilian trials to bloodthirsty camelhumping jihadists, and trying to remove “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” from our military would give the world the impression that our president is a puss?
Quote of the day, “Leno skewers Obama” edition
From Jay Leno:
President Obama had his annual physical last week. And while his colonoscopy revealed no polyps, they did find three MSNBC reporters and a New York Times columnist.
Heh. 
Obama not a very good lawyer / law scholar
Damning stuff from Director Blue. Read the whole thing, but the excerpt should whet your appetite:
I spent some time with the highest tenured faculty member at Chicago Law a few months back, and he did not have many nice things to say about “Barry.” Obama applied for a position as an adjunct and wasn’t even considered. A few weeks later the law school got a phone call from the Board of Trustees telling them to find him an office, put him on the payroll, and give him a class to teach. The Board told him he didn’t have to be a member of the faculty, but they needed to give him a temporary position. He was never a professor and was hardly an adjunct.
The other professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings, and it was clear that the position was nothing more than a political stepping stool. According to my professor friend, he had the lowest intellectual capacity in the building. He also doubted whether he was legitimately an editor on the Harvard Law Review, because if he was, he would be the first and only editor of an Ivy League law review to never be published while in school (publication is or was a requirement).
We all knew he was profoundly ignorant when it came to the Constitution, but even this is remarkable. More (from the comments):
“… there was a conservative at the U of Chicago that writes in Forbes…”.
Dr John Lott. When he first met Obama he introduced himself. Obama just said “Oh, yeh. The gun guy. I don’t believe people should have guns”.
John offered to discuss the issue over lunch (maybe he should have offered a beer summit? – Ed.). Obama just made a face and turned away.
Lott says he never met any other academic so uninterested in hearing different points of view.
But hey, just take his word for it when he says “I’m not an ideologue”, m’kay?
Quote of the day, “Harry Reid thinks job losses are awesome!” edition
Lest you think I’m being hard on the senile old coot, here is the video so you can see for yourself.
Transcript: “Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good.”
You would expect at least the obligatory “one job loss is one job too many” or something like that, wouldn’t you? Actually, he did…after his handlers realized what a buffoon he appeared to be:
Majority Leader Harry Reid returned to the Senate floor, saying his earlier remarks that “Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good,” were “mischaracterized by those seeking to score political points” and adding that the lost 36,000 jobs is “devastating news.”
I can understand the faux pas. I mean, if I had a nickel for every time I said “really good” instead of “devastating news”, I…um, wouldn’t have a nickel.
Fortunately for him (and to Mrs. Reid’s peril), this dude will likely be unemployed after November and can stop humiliating Nevada.
UPDATE: Pentagon shooter was an anti-Bush Truther moonbat
UPDATES BELOW.
Patterico and others all across Al Gore’s invention have the details. The evidence is indisputable…which means one of two things will happen:
1. The MSM will ignore the evidence that the guy was a deranged leftist; or
2. The MSM will somehow link this guy to the Tea Party movement, just like they did with the IRS kamikaze (who was a communist, which is the antithesis of the Tea Party movement…but why let facts get in the way of propaganda?).
UPDATE (3/5/2010 – 17:45 pm EST): Didn’t go out on a limb too much with prediction #2 this morning, did I? While he doesn’t quite say “Tea Party”, the author of this factually-challenged innuendo-heavy “news” article says that an anti-Bush Truther who was also apparently a registered Democrat and attacked the main military center is…you guessed it…a “right-wing” extremist! Seriously, they don’t even try to hide it anymore, do they?
House Dems to be screwed by Senate Dems and Obama?
That seems to be a prevailing theory/scenario floating around the blogosphere and punditry. Jeff Anderson at the Weekly Standard has a great piece on the leverage that swing-district House Dems and why they should really think through voting for ObamaCare.
Here’s the thinking:
In order for ObamaCare to become law, the House has to approve the Senate bill as is. Most wavering House Dems (both “moderate” and liberal Dems) don’t like the Senate bill for a variety of reasons. For the Lap Dog Dems, the federal funding of abortions is a bitter pill to swallow. For the libs, it’s the absence of the government-run insurance plan. For both, the inclusion of the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, and the South Florida Medicare Advantage Exception are all hated.
Normally, in most legislation, this is where a joint House-Senate conference committee would occur. They would get together, see what a final bill that could possibly pass both chambers would look like, then craft one and send it to the House. Once it passes the House, then the Senate would vote on it. However, the Senate minority could filibuster it at that point. Given that this is a 100% certainty to occur in the Senate, the only thing that could prevent such a filibuster is for the House to approve the exact same Senate bill, without changes, as is. Because if there is even a slight change, it is technically a new bill and must go back to the Senate…where it will meet its end due to the filibuster.
Anywho, what Pelosi and Obama are trying to do is to convince wavering House Dems to vote for the Senate bill, and then for the Senate to pass, via the nuclear option, any and all “fixes” that the House wants. With the nuclear option, these “fixes” would be passed with 51 votes, despite the fact that they are not budgetary matters but are strictly legislative and policy matters (which the nuclear option is not meant for, but will be used for anyway).
But here’s the thing: If the House does pass the Senate bill, with the belief that the Senate Dems will pass their “fixes” after the fact, what incentive does the Senate (or Obama) have to do that? After all, once the House passes the Senate bill, Obama will sign it into law…voila ObamaCare! The House can bellyache and scream all they want about how the Senate Dems didn’t follow through, but there will be two things they can do about it: jack and squat. Reid and the Senate Dems, and Obama, will blame the lack of a “fix pack” on the Republicans, tell the House Dems “Hey, we tried! Sorry ’bout that!”, and that will be the end of it. Thus, the wavering House Dems (who would have gotten promises for a public option, Stupak aboriton-funding ban, removal of the corrupt vote buys, etc.) will have diddly to show for their betrayal of the public and their loyalty to their party over their country and constituents.
Anywho, read the column. There’s more than just this theory, and it’s insightful reading.
Dan Riehl is hopping mad about Obama’s reconciliation
I’ve read Riehl’s writings for the last few years, and the man is always relaxed and calm in his writing. If you haven’t ever read his writings, you can’t really grasp the shock level I’m at right now after reading (with delight, I might add) Dan’s latest post. Here’s the excerpt that gets me giddier than Tiger Woods at the Playboy Mansion:
Only a fool with no clear appreciation of, or for, America past and present, would dare undertake what this pustule in the White House is attempting to do. …
This neophyte, this joke we have in the White House has absolutely no idea of the force and the rage he is about to unleash on him and his entire political party. If there are not enough responsible adults left within his party to rein in this accidental, affirmative action jerk, this self-styled, extremely flawed little man, then his party is worthless to America. It deserves to be marginalized electorally and, ultimately, utterly destroyed, before being relegated to the dung heap of history with the rest of the marxist, socialist clowns Americans have dispatched before.
Wow! He has never shown the righteous outrage he’s showing here, and I love it!
Exit question: If a mild-mannered guy like Dan Riehl gets this livid at the Dems’ attempts to socialize America using heavy-handed tactics, is it not reasonable to assume that moderates and independents are similarly angry enough to show up at the polls in November en masse for an extermination of leftist political careers?
Obama selling judgeship for vote on ObamaCare?
I’m sure this is just a mighty big coinkdink, and in no way indicative of corrupt Chicago-style politics:
Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he’s obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson’s brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
If Matheson votes “Yes” on ObamaCare, after having voted “No” before, isn’t it obvious that his “Yes” vote was purchased as a gift to his brother?
Night and Day, “Obama hearts supermajority for healthcare” edition
Obama: He was for supermajorities for health care reform, before he was against them.
Remember this from then-candidate Obama (video at link)?
“If we want to transform the country though, that requires a sizeable majority.”
There’s more at the link, such as “We are not going to pass universal health care with a 50-plus-one strategy.”
And what did the Hypocrite-and-Liar-in-Chief say today? Only this:
So, no matter which approach you favor, I believe the United States Congress owes the American people a final vote on health care reform. We have debated this issue thoroughly, not just for a year, but for decades. Reform has already passed the House with a majority. It has already passed the Senate with a supermajority of sixty votes. And now it deserves the same kind of up-or-down vote that was cast on welfare reform, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, COBRA health coverage for the unemployed, and both Bush tax cuts – all of which had to pass Congress with nothing more than a simple majority.
As Allah puts it, in his blog post title: “We owe the public an up or down vote on this bill that the public hates.”
Exit questions for you Obamaton Kool-Aid drinkers: Did you know this guy was an unapologetic liar, and if so, how does it feel to be morally bankrupt?
Quote of the day, “Obama finally gets something right” edition
If the prez is looking for some bipartisan agreement, he’s finally got some. Quoth The Won, regarding the Chilean earthquake:
We can’t control nature.
Well, folks, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while. So we have to admit that B.O. finally says something on which we can agree. I guess he’s giving up on his humble pledge to “heal the planet” and slow the “rise of the ocean”.
Think of the possibilities now, my friends. With this admission, he will finally get off this “cap-and-trade” kick and will now acknowledge that man-made global “warming” is a load of crap. After all, as his admission states, we can’t control nature. Maybe now he will stop trying.
Baby and family shot by global “warming” cultists
This is just sick. From the NY Daily News:
A seven-month-old girl miraculously survived alone for three days after one of her parents shot her in the chest – apparently as part of a bizarre murder-suicide pact blamed on global warming.
The baby was discovered with a bullet casing in her chest and covered with blood by police in the Argentinean city of Goya, near the bodies of her parents and 2-year-old brother, the Latin American Herald reported Saturday.
Police broke into the home after neighbors complained of a stench coming from the house. The boy was found with a gunshot wound in his back, while his parents died from gunshot wounds to the chest.
The parents, 56-year-old Francisco Lotero and 23-year-old Miriam Coletti, are believed to have been spurred by their fears about global climate change, London’s Telegraph reported.
A letter was found on a table expressing the couple’s anger at the government for not responding to the environmental crisis.
Doctors said the baby’s condition has been improving every day, the Herald Tribune reported.
I blame Bush.
If a moonbat wants to whack himself/herself, that’s one thing (and that sucks). But don’t take the kids with you just because you’ve got a festering wormhole in your gourd!
Exit question: Since the left blamed Rush and talk radio hosts for the OKC bombing and the murders of abortion doctors, then doesn’t it logically follow that we can blame this tragedy on Al Gore?
(No, moonbats, I am not actually blaming this on Gore. I’m showing you how perverted your “logic”, and I use that word in your case very loosely, happens to be.)
Olbermann on the way out at MSNBC?
If this is true, both of his viewers will be just devastated.
Exit question: Considering the dismal ratings of every other show on MSDNC, how badly must one suck to lose a show on that network?
Quote of the day, “Pelosi bastardizes the English language” edition
San Fran Nan decides to torment the spirit of Noah Webster with this gem:
Bipartisanship is a two-way street. A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes.
Bill Clinton just called to say Pelosi needs a little work on her verbal pirouettes.
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