Poll: Despite Obama’s stumping, support for budget drops five points
posted at 3:13 pm on March 28, 2009 by Allahpundit
A nice catch by Andrew Malcolm at the LAT, and a testament to The One’s pitchman skills. This isn’t a crap sandwich he’s trying to feed us; it’s an eight-foot-long crap hero, the sheer stench of which is capable of making a man sick at 40 yards. And he’s still managed to talk a plurality of the public into chowing down on it. As Malcolm says, imagine what the numbers would look like if he wasn’t out there every day giving it the ShamWow treatment.
Obama took his well-oiled road show to California in that time frame to hold two nationally-televised town hall meetings dominated by budget talk. He went on Jay Leno’s show and talked to some 14 million bedtime viewers about the budget. He did a well-watched “60 Minutes” interview last weekend and talked more about the budget. He held a nationally-televised primetime news conference Tuesday and talked endlessly about the budget to an estimated 42 million Americans. His support team mobilized millions of e-mails to gin up supporters across the land to talk up the budget, especially to friends and elected representatives. Other groups ran ads supporting the budget. Obama brings up the ambitious budget at every opportunity. And he drove to Capitol Hill to create even more opportunity for budget news coverage.
The result, according to Gallup: People who feel positively about his budget fell from 44% in late February to 39% this week. People who feel negatively about the budget increased one point to 27% in the same time frame. And after all that budget talk, people who claim to not know enough to have an opinion increased 10% from 30% to 33%.
Don’t forget the planted questioners at that townhall infomercial on Thursday as part of his well-oiled show. Exit question: How long can he keep it up? I’m thinking … a lot longer, especially with 54 percent of the public telling CNN a few weeks ago that a bad economy will still be Bush’s fault a year from now. On the other hand, woe to any man/Messiah who raises taxes after promising — again and again and again — that he wouldn’t. Here’s a video from Third Base Politics that captures the gathering storm.
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Could it possibly be:
Y-not on March 28, 2009 at 3:15 PM
Crisis explained: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6507136891691870450&hl=en
Constitution1st on March 28, 2009 at 3:16 PM
Uh, I uh, bet, uh he, uh didn’t uh, see that uh coming.
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 3:18 PM
heheheheehheheheheehheheheheehheheheheehheheheheeh
blatantblue on March 28, 2009 at 3:18 PM
Obama: “Where’s TOTUS when I need him?”
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 3:19 PM
These issues are too complex for his followers to grasp, and it’s easy for him to convince them he’s “got this”.
Wait until there’s a terrorist attack on American soil, and he fumbles. I think we all know it’s going to happen, and we all know his knee-capping our national security and projecting a message of weakness will be responsible.
That will hit home, but there will be no joy in saying “I told you so” to these clowns.
capitalist piglet on March 28, 2009 at 3:19 PM
That’s change I can believe in!
abinitioadinfinitum on March 28, 2009 at 3:21 PM
Ummm. In light of the Smoking Gun Headline story yesterday, does that analogy still fit? Wait…why yes. Yes it does.
Weight of Glory on March 28, 2009 at 3:22 PM
I’m with Y-not on this on. We are see why to much of The Won. It is not presidential, it seems desperate.
Cindy Munford on March 28, 2009 at 3:23 PM
Exactly what O is counting on. When in doubt, (insert verb strategy here.)
ericdijon on March 28, 2009 at 3:23 PM
Yes, America is Obama’s whore. He uses us to raise his self-esteem…
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 3:24 PM
that would be seeing. I can’t read today.
Cindy Munford on March 28, 2009 at 3:24 PM
Obama, though his followers may still love him, will not be able to sell this budget if enough information gets out about it.
The more people found out about the actual details in the stimulus package, support dropped. Obama and the Dems esentially had to lie to sell it and then force the vote before anyone could read it or disseminate information about it.
If the budget is left out in the sunlight for more people to understand the implications of it, more support will peel away even if people generally like/love Obama.
myrenovations on March 28, 2009 at 3:24 PM
Oh look, it’s Tweedle-dee and Teedle….uh, oh look, it’s Tweedle-dee, oh maybe it’s Bullwinkle… “Hey Rock, look, nuthin up ma sleeve…. PRESTO!!!! An 8-foot long crap hero… Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
HomeoftheBrave on March 28, 2009 at 3:26 PM
The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.
Abraham Lincoln
For the One that likes to compare himself to Honest Abe it looks like he missed a few points.
DL13 on March 28, 2009 at 3:26 PM
capitalist piglet on March 28, 2009 at 3:19 PM
Like the Fargo floods he will not fumble the crisis. But also like the Fargo floods he will blame the wrong think for the cause. Obama wants to blame global warming for the floods but it is the opposite and global cooling causing the floods. The early freeze last year, the massive snow cover etc. All do to global cooling not warming.
If/when we get hit by terrorists Obama will be a politician and appear to be concerned, helpful, angry etc. He will blmae Bush for the lax security at our ports, borders, the war in Iraq, the global WOT for making more people “hate” us When it is because of his out reach to the terrorist (Hamas $900 million) His banning of the word terrorist and global war on terror his lax enforcement of Gitmo etc that would be the cause of the terrorist ability to hit us again.
I don’t think the public will buy it. But then again I didn’t think the public would fall for him during the election either
unseen on March 28, 2009 at 3:27 PM
Yes. 9/11 made Bush’s approval ratings skyrocket because he was able to harness the collective patriotism, but a man without a drop of patriotic sentiment in his entire being won’t be able to do anything but bring about mass disillusionment in himself.
ZJPolitical on March 28, 2009 at 3:27 PM
At first I thought this was a mistake… but now I think you are onto something ;)
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 3:27 PM
Just drop the “o”
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 3:27 PM
Barack Obama is a follower of 11th century heretic monk who is on a divine mission to destroy
promachus on March 28, 2009 at 3:28 PM
Let’s wait till after the final game of the NCAA tournament before we start making judgments on his value to our country. He may have it all together on the really important stuff.
a capella on March 28, 2009 at 3:28 PM
The sun emits UV light at bactericidal frequency. It would surely perish in its entirety.
ericdijon on March 28, 2009 at 3:29 PM
Hooray!
I hope (Obama’s favorite word) the spending can get a lot more under control now!!!!!
But we still have to live with this idiot as our leader.
petunia on March 28, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Exactamundo, and I can expect that as support continues to drop, Barry will sliver off insignificant portions and try to act all magnanimous about it. Such a tool.
anniekc on March 28, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Yes, maybe he will prove knowledgeable on something…
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 3:31 PM
You mean like making a correct prediction on who will win?
petunia on March 28, 2009 at 3:32 PM
Rasmussen seems to consistently show him at 56 approval right now. I bet it’s closer to 40 by year’s end the way the economy is going. He came in claiming to have all the answers and yet leaves all these positions at Treasury empty which is incredibly irresponsible. I don’t buy the whole he can escape blame for the economy forever BS. As unemployment hits 10+ % he will run out of excuses since his porkulus was supposed to help.
gsherin on March 28, 2009 at 3:33 PM
“Well, not, uh, every bill is, uh, perfect… uh, I felt like I could at least, well, uh, urr, spend at least have of uh your grandchildren’s taxes urr this uh year by signing this urr piece of urr paper.”
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 3:34 PM
Et Tu, TOTUS?
BobMbx on March 28, 2009 at 3:34 PM
AP, you can immediately discount that C-BS “poll” that RCP cites. Its “sample” had 35% more Democrats than Republicans.
Del Dolemonte on March 28, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Yeah, well, saying “I’m gonna cut taxes for 95% of Americans” sounds so much better on the campaign trail than “I’m gonna fully exploit the economic crisis to cram my socialist agenda down your throats”.
flipflop on March 28, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Absolutely. The man has his priorities straight. Making his picks available on national TV was a profile in courage.
a capella on March 28, 2009 at 3:37 PM
I bet Obama didn’t even… in about… uh… it might have… in 10 years… it would have been… uh… heh… he didn’t even… uh… 10 years down… the… heh… uh…
Daggett on March 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Obama can have 50+ approval ratings because people want to hold on to the Campaign Obama as much as possible.
The approval ratings for his various policies are probably more accurate because those policies are not Campaign Obama policies.
And even as I type that, I totally acknowledge that he is what most of us here thought he was going to be. But the people that voted for him are not going to go easy into the acceptance that they were wrong.
myrenovations on March 28, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Obama has a few problems other than his economically disastrous budget. While he promised that all bills would be posted for 5 days prior to signature, he has failed to post any for more than a few hours prior to signing. He has said he would hire no lobbyist, and has hired so many no can keep track. His staff is filled with people that worked for the financial institutions that are sucking us dry. He sounds like a dolt without his teleprompter. He clearly has absolutely no grasp of business, economics, science, or history. He calls himself a lawyer, he has never practiced law. He continually does the exact opposite of what he says he will do. He is a charlatan.
pat on March 28, 2009 at 3:44 PM
I think this needs to be beaten in the public ear. How friggin irresponsible was it to pass that bogus stimulus of over a trillion dollars when a real stimulus might have actually done some good. You could argue that it would be better to do nothing but he was obviously not going that route. If he was going to spend that money it should have been used to do something tangible, put money in people’s hands. It is a crime he got away with that.
msmveritas on March 28, 2009 at 3:46 PM
I heard a Congress woman on Beck’s radio program yesterday, telling us that Obama is trying to back door a bill through Congress that will line America up to fall in line with a one world currency. This woman stated that if Obama gets his way with this, we will see the end of the Dollar, and our existing money (what little we have left) will be worth pennies on the dollar. The Congress woman was freaking out because this move would mark the end of America as we know it. She said the clock is very close to midnight, and the people had better start protesting much louder than is current, and march on DC in record numbers. Protest or watch it all slip away in a matter of weeks.
Keemo on March 28, 2009 at 3:47 PM
“Read my lips ‘No new taxes.’”
Worked for Bush.
Theworldisnotenough on March 28, 2009 at 3:47 PM
The caption should be “Hope.” instead of “Change.” at least IMHO.
SouthernGent on March 28, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Ahh…let’s parse this campaign promise in “2008″ style:
There were no new taxes under Bush I. None.
BobMbx on March 28, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Obama is too BIG to fail.
.
at least to his delusional followers.
abinitioadinfinitum on March 28, 2009 at 3:51 PM
O’s for Overexposure.
Entelechy on March 28, 2009 at 3:53 PM
Hmmm I smell getalife.
Jamson64 on March 28, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Not if Reid and the rest of his co-harts get their way. I keep hearing all about “BUDGET RECONCILIATION”. I guess it’s process where you can sneak your crap into a budget and try and get it passed with only 51 votes.
THE BUDGET RECONCILIATION PROCESS.
Am I the only one hearing about this?
Knucklehead on March 28, 2009 at 3:54 PM
That is why it is imperative that this budget gets a full airing. The GOP needs to talk about it on the floor and on the various tv/radio programs. We need to talk about it to anyone and everyone. People need to know just how bad this budget is.
Judd Gregg is but one man and we need to give him some back up.
myrenovations on March 28, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Knucklehead on March 28, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Bush used it three times.
The President will use it for the budget and health care.
getalife on March 28, 2009 at 3:57 PM
do you get paid anymore than your monthly check for being a shill?
why don’t you answer?
Jamson64 on March 28, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Jamson64 on March 28, 2009 at 3:59 PM
I did answer so stop humping my leg stalker.
getalife on March 28, 2009 at 4:00 PM
These polls are so bogus. Nobody wants to respond negatively to any questions about the post-racial, post-partisan (BWAHAHAhaha…heh…sorry, couldn’t help it)
MessiahMistake.Only the most devoted Kool-Aid drinkers aren’t admitting to themselves that this presidential pick was a HUGE mistake.
That is an awesome video.
hillbillyjim on March 28, 2009 at 4:01 PM
Odd. Doubling the national debt was such a winner for the GOP.
Chuck Schick on March 28, 2009 at 4:01 PM
That information is also not getting out there to people who are not news/politics junkies.
It is difficult to educate the public about what is or is not in a bill. It is almost impossible to educate the public about how congress works.
If the Democrats do pass the budget or healthcare or any other garbage using reconcilliation, there better not be any Republican “yes” votes.
myrenovations on March 28, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Yep, he’s a disaster!
JAM on March 28, 2009 at 4:03 PM
You are so right, if the budget goes through in Reconciliation it will kill the Obama administration inevitably but we will go down along with the ship. I hope Paul Ryan gets his proposal lots of airing. We need more people out there talking common sense.
msmveritas on March 28, 2009 at 4:03 PM
The Congress woman was Michelle Bachman from MN, and she also asked Little Timmy where in the Constitution was it written that HE could have the powers to seize private businesses, or have these powers HE and Obama/Soros are after. Bachman also called Obama a socialist on MSNBC while on with Chris Matthews, and the Left went after her like crazy. She almost lost her race. I for one believe her!
Newt on Greta last night said Obama was setting up a dictatorship of sorts. You can watch the clip of him saying this on Foxnews.com. If you take Bachman, Manzullo and Newt’s comments this past week; it is a very nasty picture, and one that most people do not understand. I quite frankly am terrified of what Obama is going to agree to at the G20 and how it might be kept under wraps for a bit. The same goes for this lunacy at the UN over taxing countries much like the proposed cap and trade proposal. Word is Obama is all for the blue hats taking more power away from us.
I do not think they give a hoot about the numbers. They have the power and it is unchecked. They can run this country into the ground if they wish, and that is exactly what the game plan is. We tried to tell the lunatics out there that he voted to tax people that made $40K per year when in IL legislature, and nobody believed us. We all screamed he was the most liberal and the most bought off by lobbyist senator in the Senate besides Plugs and TeddyK, but nobody believed us. Not even some Conservatives would believe how Left this dude was! Huckabee admitted to Hannity last night that he was wrong about how Obama would govern!
What I want to know is WHEN is someone, anyone, going to file a lawsuit on these people? We are being told this mess is unconstitutional. SO WHERE ARE THE LAWSUITS?
And clue to how the Marxists believe the lawsuits might be coming– Frank and Reid are already viciously attacking the CONSTITUTIONALISTS on the Supreme Court! They are already trying to intimidate and trash these men because THEY KNOW what they are doing will not be upheld by the likes of Roberts and Scalia. They also know that both men are held by some esteem by the Court.
The Toe Sucker (Dick Morris) is not always right, and I question his judgement at times, but he has constantly said that Obama does not care about the numbers; he cares about the agenda and basically putting things into place that will empower the Democrats for the next 40 years. Putting 60% of the country on welfare would pretty much do it. Just look at France, England, Russia, Germany, Canada, THE WHOLE FREAKING WORLD and that is going to be us. I believe Dick is spot on on this.
freeus on March 28, 2009 at 4:07 PM
I love the ShamWow reference. This stimulus is truly all Sham, no Wow.
pjean on March 28, 2009 at 4:10 PM
I think it’s going to stay at about the 55% level for a while yet. Going strictly by instinct here and not hard figures, I’d guess that you’ve got about 25 to 30% die hard “True Believers” who won’t abandon their messiah no matter what. The other 25 to 30% have varying degrees of emotional commitment to the Church of the One. On the other side of the divide, about 25 to 30% of us saw Bambi for what he was right off the bat–a snake. Another portion wanted to “keep an open mind” and give him a chance”. Those, along with the far-outlying members of the Church of the One are the ones who first peeled away, dropping him down to about the 54 to 56% figure that we’re seeing now. The minor fluctuations that we’re seeing come from those “give him a chancers” and “outlying pew sitters” who are wavering. It’s going to take a bit more time before we see more of the Church members begin to fall away and when they do, they’ll fall away fairly quickly until we get to around 40% or so–then the numbers will firm up again with numbers dropping much slower as we’re beginning to run across the hard-cores.
The next six to nine months should prove interesting…
Matt Helm on March 28, 2009 at 4:15 PM
“Well-oiled”.
Slick?
Greasy?
K-Y Jelly?
Or all 3?
Del Dolemonte on March 28, 2009 at 4:18 PM
AP writes a mostly negative post about Obama?
Oh right, Saturday graveyard.
Well played.
Stephen M on March 28, 2009 at 4:21 PM
What year was President Bush in the Senate?
mossberg500 on March 28, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Matt Helm on March 28, 2009 at 4:15 PM
I think his support will plummet especially 2nd half of this year. Especially if him and his Teleprompter keep disrupting people’s tv shows to spout the same shit.
gsherin on March 28, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Generally I think you’re right, people will hold on to support for him longer and look for scapegoats real and imagined. I think all the idiots who had no clue Dems had Congress the past two years as well as those who just didn’t care are going to move to put some balance back. They won’t outright admit Obama was a mistake until the reality has bitten them all over the place.
The Toe Sucker (Dick Morris) is not always right, and I question his judgement at times, but he has constantly said that Obama does not care about the numbers; he cares about the agenda and basically putting things into place that will empower the Democrats for the next 40 years.
freeus on March 28, 2009 at 4:07 PM
When you say he doesn’t care about the numbers do you mean poll numbers?
msmveritas on March 28, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Obama: Running the country like a “community organizer”
petefrt on March 28, 2009 at 4:24 PM
But on another note…
Watch this video of the line at Mark Levin’s book signing.
Oh, by the way trolls, it was raining.
Saltysam on March 28, 2009 at 4:29 PM
That was great! The line went on and on and on. I doubt the local news would report something like that so thank goodness for hand-helds and You Tube. Thanks for sharing that link.
sherry on March 28, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Obama Hates Jazz
Doughboy on March 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Yeah, the further down the numbers go, the more those sticking with him are going to support him. To a large extent, we’re looking at the “It’s not the King…it’s his evil counselors” paradigm here. People are still not wanting to put the blame on Obama for a variety of reasons–including emotional investment. The believers have put so much of themselves in him that for them to admit he was a mistake would be tantamount to them admitting they made a mistake–and they’re not about to willingly do that. Many will not blame Bambi until they are personally affected–either through losing their jobs, through job reductions, through higher electric and gas bills etc.
To an extent he has a point–but Bambi does have to keep public opinion in mind to an extent. That’s why he and Congress are rushing these programs through as rapidly as they are–they know that once the public opinion tide turns, it’ll become much more difficult for them; but once the programs are in place, it’ll be too late. It’s a race right now between his poll numbers and Congress’s speed of deliberation. The conservatives in Congress have to be roadblocks to buy us the time.
Matt Helm on March 28, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Which CNN will be dutifully hammering home a year from now.
ddrintn on March 28, 2009 at 4:44 PM
The conservatives and the Blue Dogs, those with Blue Dogs as reps have to be incredibly vocal. If we can stave off getting healthcare along with the other huge expansions of government this year, he won’t have the numbers after this to get it done.
msmveritas on March 28, 2009 at 4:51 PM
If it was just Mr. Teleprompter and his traveling show, he might not look so bad………….
……… you throw in the orgasmic media and the non-stop, wall to wall coverage, then it’s time to throw up.
They can’t help themselves…………
……….. and thankfully, what they created, they can bring down.
Seven Percent Solution on March 28, 2009 at 4:52 PM
We shouldn’t be too concerned about the public thinking it’s Bush’s fault; although the American will blame Bush for this financial mess, they are capable of distinguishing the problem from the solution and they’re none too happy with Obama’s solution.
I think this is why his numbers are dropping. Yes, the American public is cutting his some slack and believing that he “inherited” this, but don’t underestimate most Americans; they will definitely NOT blame his failure to fix this on Bush.
yogi41 on March 28, 2009 at 4:58 PM
I think the so-called blue dogs are a total crock of shit mostly. It would seem to me the vote on the porkulus bill would be the best litmus test on whether you are a fiscal conservative and yet only 10 Dems voted against it in the house and none in the senate.
gsherin on March 28, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Well, on the bright side – we won’t be electing another piece-of-crap inexperienced Affirmative Action candidate for a long time after we get the bill from this scumbag and his friends.
TexasJew on March 28, 2009 at 5:12 PM
A friend of mine who kept her Gore/Lieberman and then Kerry/Edwards stickers on her car for a couple of years after they lost, has already taken her Obama sticker off her car. Says a lot. In fact, Obama stickers have been disappearing very quickly; see if you notice the next time you are out driving.
behiker on March 28, 2009 at 5:18 PM
And the scapegoats will be the companies that provide us with electricity, heating fuel, and gasoline, just to name a few. When those folks start seeing those prices escalate, they’ll be screaming at the companies and their goughing, totally unaware that it’s this cap & trade and taxes that Obama is throwing at us that’s the real culprit.
As far as “toe sucker” Dick Morris goes, I have a whole new respect for the guy after reading his latest book, Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us … and What to Do About It and when he said that “Obama is a Socialist and not even a good one” on BOR a few weeks ago.
Knucklehead on March 28, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Should be snake oil show…
Big John on March 28, 2009 at 5:25 PM
I hope he fails.
bluelightbrigade on March 28, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Inflation schedule or something:
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If current budget plans are implemented we can expect double digit inflation rate by 2010-2011. By 2012-2013 this could expand to triple digit inflation, that’s more than 100 % per year. By 2014-2015 the rate of inflation could reach four digits, ( 1,000% /year). At this point the US dollar will be considered to be worth zero in the marketplace.
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To spend at the proposed rate, money will have to be created out of thin air. As the supply of money is increased the value of all existing dollars will go down. Imagine converting relatively rare diamonds into common sand. The value of anything is based on how much or how many exist.
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Here is the problem. With a high level of debt (10 trillion), monetary expansion will spiral out of control. The monetary expansion will result is an increase in the rate of inflation. This will be followed immediately by an increase in interest rates, including the rates lenders (China) charge the federal government to burrow. Federal debt service costs (interest payments) will consume an ever larger portion of tax revenue.
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Eventually all tax revenue will go out in interest payments. The federal spending shortfall will be funded by creating ever larger amounts of new money which will fuel higher rates of inflation. Eventually the US dollar will not be accepted as payment by anyone. This will throw the US and world economy into chaos, quite literally an economic Armageddon.
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We can only assume that the current administration knows this will happen and wants this to happen. Out of this chaos some sort of new world order will be imposed on a desperate population.
esblowfeld on March 28, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Imagine what the support would be if he wasn’t such a blatant liar.
notagool on March 28, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Conservatives must unit and fight this administration with everything we have and never yield to socialism.
mindhacker on March 28, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Buyer’s remorse.
Send_Me on March 28, 2009 at 5:39 PM
When my dog tangled with a skunk he got a bath in tomato juice.
Might work here. Just sayin’…
Yoop on March 28, 2009 at 5:41 PM
I hate to tell bho, but a gob of Americans are sick and tired of seeing you on the tube 24/7. You have gotten yourself and your team in a real pickle and we aren’t buying you. You might find it hard to imagine, but we do still have brain cells to see through you and God willing we can save our Republic.
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letget on March 28, 2009 at 5:44 PM
I don’t recall Obama saying like Bush 41, read my lips no new taxes. He said 95 percent would get a tax cut, but he said he would repeal Bush tax cuts and would make the tax code ‘more fair’ even if it killed businesses and would outlaw coal and put on a massive energy tax and would nationalize health insurance also causing massive tax increases. The public apparently agrees with these European innovations evidently as only 27 percent disagree with the budget. Either there is massive polling fraud going on, or the public is afraid to disagree or be seen as disagreeing with the Obamessiah, or the battle is way uphill in turning this country around from becoming a banana republic (and no libtards, that is not any reference to Obama’s skin color).
eaglewingz08 on March 28, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Obama,I mean Teleprompter,what ever,
hey,we just hit another iceberg,
dammit,its a budget Iceberg,sh#t!
Obama we need support,more Liberal BS stench water
ballast to the stern,and we need it now!
The bow is down 5 degrees,were plowing,and starting to list!
(Snark)
canopfor on March 28, 2009 at 6:17 PM
His media tour cost his budget five points in the polls, but it saved it ten points….or fifteen, yeah, his plan saved fifteen points….or something…
29Victor on March 28, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Well, that’s when the evil, irresponsible Repugnants were running the show, so they would sneak Booosh into the Senate to cast his vote…
Plus Dick Cheney threatened to send our Hero Nan to Gitmo if she didn’t promise to spend money.
Ahhh… Finally, a new era of bipartisanship and San-Fran Nan can start cutting the pork.
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Big issue: People today do not KNOW what 15% unemployment and 15% inflation. Hell, I am 53 and don’t remember! But I can appreciate the impact of these deficits
Until we get there people will not appreciate the disaster that uhbuhma is…
winston on March 28, 2009 at 6:40 PM
“…. but there will be no joy in saying “I told you so” to these clowns.”
No, no joy, but I will rub it in their stupid fucking faces of every minute of every hour of every day until President Worthless Shit is out of office. And when they write to the papers and complain about the results, I’ll start the process all over again.
GarandFan on March 28, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Obama is on pace for a 5 Trillion dollars budget inside of 3 years. It will implode the economy as a percentage of the GDP.
Thats either alot of tax increases (gas on a fire) or devalued dollars to sell bonds to anyone (hello inflation, rising interest rates and a subsequent ARM and Credit Card meltdown).
Theres a reason that you don’t pass a certain level of GDP for budgetary reasons.My idiot state (CA) is basically doing the same thing and our taxes and fee’s are going up.
Hide your paycheck cause Barry can’t print enough money-he’ll need to confiscate yours.
Remember what he told Joe the Plumber.
jjshaka on March 28, 2009 at 6:50 PM
I don’t believe that most people will be blaming Bush in a year, no siree if Obama keeps yammering away at us all every freaking day for the next year..Bush will be a memory. And people will blame Obama. Just like they blamed Bush for the bad intel the Clinton people gave him. Just like they blamed Bush for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in spite of the fact that the Democrats had been pushing subprime loans for years.
The Democrats created the short term memory voter. The what have you done for me lately kind of guy. So, unless people suddenly become patient and introspective my guess is that in a year Obama will be the guy who owns all of this.
After all, Bush’s name is not even on the budget. Obama and the Democrats made sure of that. It is theirs, all theirs.
Terrye on March 28, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Do you think his poll numbers will zoom, zoom, zoom when the 95 percenters get their $13.00 a week “tax cut”, which is really just an adjustment of the withholding tables, and thus could be subject to…taxes?
After becoming addicted to Barack’s amazing generosity, in January 2010 the “tax cut” gets cut back to a whopping $8.00 a week, which could stun some suckers who fell head over heels for the Messiah.
That’s assuming that he doesn’t call the nation together and announce that “a crisis” will force us to make further “sacrifices”, ditching the whole thing as that video reasonaby suggests may very well happen.
Buy Danish on March 28, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Time for a general strike yet? Say, starting April 13th through the 17th and extending it as needed until this ass pirate folds and realizes he’s in America, not Venezuela.
Hold all tax returns and do your shopping early, then take a weeks vacation from work. If everyone did this all at once I think the lefties might get the point.
Spiritk9 on March 28, 2009 at 6:59 PM
BTW,is Hopey/Changey ever in the Oval Office to do
the peoples business,
or is he always prancing around on his Unicorn,still
forever stuck in campaign mode,spilling pixy dust,and
Kool-Aid!
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Come Income Tax time deadline;
Do not file,and couple it with the ‘TEA PARTY’!
canopfor on March 28, 2009 at 7:11 PM
Unlike teh gays, many of us would lose our private sector jobs – or worse, we work in academia/public education and we would be “outed” in, as the lefties put it, a McCarthiesque manner…
Upstater85 on March 28, 2009 at 7:14 PM
GarandFan on March 28, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Obama is losing his supporters at a rapid pace here in my area. No signs of Obama stickers or signs. No longer do we see Liberals walking around all proud, chest stuck out, smiles and happy faces. I live in small town America. We all know who the Obama ass wipes are. We are now watching them walk around in depression, heads pointed down at the ground not willing to make eye contact.
I don’t think any of that matters. Remember when Biden warned his people (and everybody else) that Obama would be tested, that a crisis would come in his first (6) months. I now believe what he was talking about is exactly what we are seeing. The destruction of the dollar; destruction of American wealth; complete denial that a Constitution ever existed; a power grab the likes of which we have never seen in America.
It’s going to be up to us, the people, to stop this. Republicans can’t be trusted either, as we have also witnessed. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin, Ed Morrisey; lead us in this uprising brave humans….
Impeach all bastard politicians; just to get things started!
Keemo on March 28, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Terrye on March 28, 2009 at 6:55 PM
At the pace Obama is on, none of the blame game will matter in a year.
Keemo on March 28, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Oh ya,one more item!
Notice Obama,at the 0:59 to 1:02 looks straight into
the camera,
just like,
Bill clinton did,with, I did not have sex,with that
women,Monica Lewinski!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It’s called a LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on March 28, 2009 at 7:20 PM
A United Nations document on “climate change” that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510937,00.html
Obama, Liberals, Gore, and the United Nations; check mate is coming if we don’t get our act together very soon.
Keemo on March 28, 2009 at 7:24 PM
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