Tapper on Obama’s “precipitous slide”
posted at 10:55 am on September 2, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
How bad has Barack Obama’s slide in the polls become? So bad, Jake Tapper reports for ABC News, that the White House has abandoned the talk of mandates and now cast Obama as a courageous statesman willing to do the unpopular. Why, the world would look much different if Obama was concerned about mandates:
“If we only did what was popular in polls, the banks would have failed, there’s be no domestic automakers, and we’d pull all of our troops out of Afghanistan tomorrow …”
Well, except for that one domestic automaker that didn’t take the government cheese. How is Ford doing, by the way? It leads Government Motors in market share for the first time in 80 years. And can we remember to put the statement on Afghanistan in the memory banks for later retrieval when the Obama administration gets squishy on the Af-Pak theater?
The White House has begun to take the decline seriously — and they should, as Tapper reports:
Low job approval ratings could impact the president’s ability to get anything done this fall. Even Democrats are practically begging the president to improve his game on health care reform.
“I think the president’s got to decide in a sense, and he has, and to step up and really frame this again for us,” said Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn. on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. Dodd is the acting chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, which drafted a Senate health care reform bill.
It remains to be seen what the long-term implications are of President Obama’s precipitous slide. Seven months into his term, President George H.W. Bush was at a high of 73 percent, but he was not reelected. His son, President George W. Bush was at 61 percent at this point in his presidency, but is now known for the most unpopular second term on record.
Congress will concern themselves more with short-term implications. They got an earful of hot dissent when they returned to their districts, and they have to worry about 2010 with a politically-wounded Democrat in the White House. They need to decide whether to tie themselves to a President who seems unwilling or unable to actually lead, or to cut the radical Obama-Pelosi agenda loose and take their chances by distancing themselves.
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Obama is retiring to Camp David to spend some time contemplating McChrystal’s report on Afghanistan. Who thinks he comes out and says it’s time to pull out?
hawksruleva on September 2, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Tapper: Obama’s in the Crapper
faraway on September 2, 2009 at 11:46 AM
So was the white house implying that trying CIA agents for torture is in the best interest of security for the US, and that the Stimulus and bailouts worked? GM declared bankruptcy after the bailouts. Why not declare bankruptcy before the bailouts?????
jeffn21 on September 2, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Any Democrat using his/her brain would distance themselves from the impending doom scenarios that’ll be playing out in the Obama years.
#1 GM/Chrysler: Chrysler doesn’t seem to have anything viable to sell in the future that isn’t already covered by a few more popular Japanese or Korean companies. The only thing they have, that they’ll probably sell off for cash is Jeep.
GM put a lot of money and effort in the Volt, a technology that even if it works comes in a package too expensive for most Americans. I see doom with a very few years for both of these entities.
#2 Cap & Trade: Which is really Tax & Trade. If this boondoggle goes through and people start feeling the increased cost of energy, there will be hell to pay. As far as corporate customers, it just may put several out of business, but it will assuredly cost millions of manufacturing jobs that are sent to a lower cost country.
#3 Health Care: Wait until Grandpa & Grandma have to start being rationed in their care, it’s not going to be pretty.
Jeff from WI on September 2, 2009 at 11:48 AM
Pelosi didn’t back Hillary (that I recall). I have always believed that Pelosi, Reid and others in the Dem leadership wanted BO because they could run circles around him. They knew he does not possess the experience or leadership qualities that would make him a leader or in any way independent of them. Hillary could have created problems, and she certainly would have been up for a fight when she disagreed on policy (note: I am not a Hill. supporter).
BO spends much of his time on the road flogging their proposals. That’s where they want him, and I’m sure that was the plan. In short, he’s a traveling salesman.
Cody1991 on September 2, 2009 at 11:48 AM
All of the above?
And before he throws Pelosi under the (which will never happen), he needs to start explaining to the American people the Commies he has in the White House posing as Czars.
When is someone besides Beck going to start exposing these people?
Knucklehead on September 2, 2009 at 11:49 AM
They’re now failing at an accelerating rate.
Too stupid to rebut.
Next month is probably more like it.
Chuck Schick on September 2, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Loxodonta on September 2, 2009 at 11:28 AM
Thanks. :)
milwife88 on September 2, 2009 at 11:49 AM
So, is Jake’s point here that 2 Presidents who were MORE popular at the same point in their first term ended up unpopular and out of power? That would point to Obama arriving at the same destination, faster.
hawksruleva on September 2, 2009 at 11:49 AM
If he (the president) is even more unpopular, it just gives the blacks another excuse to accuse the deep-rooted racism this country has. Rags like Guardian etc. and progressive people can and will say “I told you so.”
And protray him as a victim.
Sir Napsalot on September 2, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Friends–the tactics the left is using shouldn’t be viewed linearly–ie, they want to go straight for socialized medicine. They want to appear to go straight for it by jumping 10 steps forward, and then settling for only 3 steps forward. You see, these people have no shame. They’ll use you, they’ll use themselves–in life and death, to advance any cause. They understand only one thing, power. But at the core, they’re cowards. They think themselves intellectuals–but place extraordinary amounts of faith in institutions and people who cannot return results for them. Hence, they are blame shifters–for when they fail, the fingers get pointed at the right–and they lose their 7 steps, but still they advance. They convince themselves that it was always our fault when they fail–since they have no personal responsibility, and remain blameless. Their ideas cannot advance on the merits nor the facts, they must advance on the emotion and faith that the intentions are good and the message is sold–think “green energy” and “sustainability” and “health care for all.” All nicey and innocuous sounding, but deviant, perverted and incomplete arguments at the very core simply pushed along by the same faith that it takes to catch a leprechaun or find the end of the rainbow.
Leftism is a product that is in constant decline, yet needs constant recruitment (education), watering (propaganda from MSM), and defense (courts).
Take leftism and stand it up on its own merits, and it is simply a fallacy wrapped up in a moonbeam and sealed with a kiss.
….and pay witness to the precipitous slide of such a fallacy.
ted c on September 2, 2009 at 11:52 AM
***
Ford announced that they are closing down an engine casting plant in the U.S. and are moving the operation to the big Ford plant in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua State, Mexico.
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This will reduce Ford’s costs a lot. But quality may suffer. Thirty years ago Mercedes used to make cars in Mexico–the engine blocks came from Germany. then a Mexican company started making blocks–the socialist government required Mercedes to start using their blocks. They were not hard enough–and wore out in 5000 mies or so. Mercedes shut down their operation rather than make bad products.
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A friend’s uncle bought a new Mexican Ford there in the early 1970′s. The block failed–lots of oil burning–a few thousand miles later. The mechanic told him to drive the car to El Paso–230 miles North of Chihuahua City–and get a rebuild engine installed.
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I hope the engine block problems have been corrected by the Chihuahua Ford plant by now.
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John Bibb
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rocketman on September 2, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Which is one big reason Holder has tripled the crew at the DOJ Civil Rights division.
Limerick on September 2, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Osama Obama doesn’t have to “rehab” himself, any more than previous tyrants who found themselves at a low point early in their careers.
All he has to do is lean on his corrupt lapdogs in Congress and get some “enabling” legislation passed under catchy Unicorn & Rainbow titles. Then neither he nor they will have to care a damn for what the public thinks.
Think I’m being an alarmist while the pundits theorize about an Obama “reinvention and poll numbers?” Read your history. And weep. The Child-President’s string-pullers could care less about theory; they didn’t get where they are by paying attention to the public or to laws.
MrScribbler on September 2, 2009 at 11:53 AM
We shall see shortly if political self-preservation trumps Obama loyalty.
GarandFan on September 2, 2009 at 11:53 AM
A long time ago, I determined that there is little free will in the life of a President. Presidents that push the wrong boundaries suffer for it. And when Presidents suffer, so do Americans. Clinton recognized this during his push for socialized medicine, and saved his Presidency by moving to the center (a drastic rightward move).
Obama’s current floundering is a direct result of attempting to jump the wrong fences. Healthcare, CIA, spending, bowing down and apologizing to any foreign leader who will allow him to get on his knees, etc., he hasn’t made many choices that are overtly in the best interest of a majority of Americans. My worry here is that he thinks that the cure for what ails him is to jump other fences.
This is not a good thing. I think it’s time for Obama to visit the Psychology Czar.
applebutter on September 2, 2009 at 11:53 AM
All true. It was surprising for me to discover that so many people don’t begin to understand what’s happening, until it’s actually happening. And of course, some still don’t know. But I’m guessing that even the slowest and dumbest probably will recognize when they have no job and no money.
JiangxiDad on September 2, 2009 at 11:54 AM
Pimping forObama.Running from Obama.
No loyalty among libwads.
whitetop on September 2, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Hey Tapper , you need to have a conference call with Mary Mapes, Dan Rather and soon to be has-been Charlie Gibson.
Some folks never learn.
bluegrass on September 2, 2009 at 11:56 AM
simply talking the approval ratings, while popular, misses a whole lot of information. It has to be put into context. Events and actions drive the approval ratings and each presentensy, this one in particular, is different.
Barack Obama’s political epitaph is going to read:
ted c on September 2, 2009 at 11:56 AM
Community Organizer fails as President of the United States.
From the right side of the aisle ….. “Told you so.”
From the left side of the aisle ….. “Damn angry mob racists.”
fogw on September 2, 2009 at 11:56 AM
I was speaking to someone who knows a politician who has eyes on the Speaker’s job. This politician said he didn’t understand why anyone would want to be President, as they are too hamstringed, but that Speaker of the House was a diff. kettle of fish.
JiangxiDad on September 2, 2009 at 11:56 AM
You’ve got a point there, I doubt Hillary was going to carry water for the likes of Pelosi. When it came to butting heads with her my guess is Hillary would have been a potent force to be dealt with.
scalleywag on September 2, 2009 at 11:58 AM
That was FANTASTIC! Will anybody Tweet that pls?
Forecast for me: Obama won’t make it to the end of THIS term. I see impeachment, treason or something like that. So I don’t see or look fwd. to three more years of this; I do not see that happening.
We’ll take back House and Senate but whoever is POTUS next will have to put up AND shut up. Too much yappin’ has sunk this contry -plus the communists/fascists/marxists-.
ProudPalinFan on September 2, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Funny.
Obama more or less lets Congress (read Reid Pelosi, Dodd, et al) to taker care of the health-care legislation, preferring to hang back and ‘be above it all’ or something, he (Obama) fails to LEAD on this subject, and for months the Dems have been perfectly happy with this.
Now that the SHHTF, neither party (Congress or Obama) can wait, especially Congress, to throw the other under the proverbial bus due to both sides (Dems) lack of ability to get anything done.
Marvelous… :)
catmman on September 2, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Auto manufacturing has changed considerably since the 1970s. Quality in Third-world plants is virtually equal to that in the U.S., Western Europe and Japan now, thanks in large part to automation and new manufacturing processes.
It should also be noted that GM’s newest China venture is nothing new. Buicks have been built in China for years, as have other GM vehicles. So have Volkswagens and other brands.
The only possible difference between ten years ago and today is that we may see U.S.-branded, Chinese-made automobiles in this country eventually.
For once, (and I hate to let him off the hook, even once), this can’t be pinned on Osama Obama. If anyone is to “blame,” it is conservative free-traders whose laissez-faire policies have forced American and European companies to go cheap or go broke.
MrScribbler on September 2, 2009 at 12:00 PM
and just a note…Toyota is closing their first plant in their 72 year history. Guess which one….NUMMI. Located near San Francisco, it was a joint venture with GM.
Fighton03 on September 2, 2009 at 12:01 PM
A foundry is generally a low skilled, low tech operation. Quality issues tend to be easy to find, and generally easy to fix. If a part of production was moved to a different country, this wouldn’t be a bad choice considering the value added.
applebutter on September 2, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Ray Stevens resurrects a 10% tax cap golden oldie.
There comes a point when even a good donkey says NO MO.
maverick muse on September 2, 2009 at 12:03 PM
I’m not sure it’s the same plant, but I heard recently that a joint Toyota/GM plant in CA was moving to Texas for non-union workers.
JiangxiDad on September 2, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Looks like Dodd is sliding his foot into the door so he can escape blame if (fiasco) happens
This is a hard proof Obama has had a true slide. When the rats start prepping the lifeboats.
Now, if king rat Obama rises, Dodd will turn his tale (tail) around and make it look like he knew all along it would take Obama’s greatness to win the battle, long live Obama
from Bureau of Labor Statistics
The newest spin is the numbers are slighly less than expected so therefore we are leaving recession. September is such a tricky month for the market, preceding October the month of fear, so spin must accelerate
entagor on September 2, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Courageous Statement my ass.
I expect better of Tapper.
Obama has proven in his short tenure as POTUS that he is nothing but a Socialist.
SmallGovtGuy on September 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Can you imagine what it would have been like if Hillary won? A 4 yr cat fight. In a macabre sort of way I would have enjoyed it. Pelosi is not intelligent in the way I appreciate, however she is a cunning, vicious politician. There was no way, imo, that she would let Hillary in the WH.
And look where Hill is now. She appears to have been completely emasculated. No coincidence.
Cody1991 on September 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM
They would all rather be waterboarded than report that fact.
They also like to report that when Clinton left office he had a high job approval rating, but then conveniently ignore the same polls showing that over 70% of those same people said his pResidency would only be remembered for a stained blue dress.
Del Dolemonte on September 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Treason and impeachment sound nice in this context.
JiangxiDad on September 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM
That was going to happen anyway. Obama was always doomed to be a failure as president (not because of his race, but because he’s a far-left radical in a center-right country), and the race-baiters were always going to attribute his failure to racism. It’s a ploy that has always worked for them in the past, and been very lucrative to boot, and they’re not about to give it up now.
Look for Barry’s third autobiography to be in bookstores in March, 2013. It will be titled: My Turn: How a Racist Amerikkka Refused to Allow a Black Man to Succeed as President.
AZCoyote on September 2, 2009 at 12:12 PM
The President has had so many frames for every issue that he might as well open up a poster store….
‘Would you like a stimulus package in the pork frame or the stop job losses frame? What do you mean there is just contact paper on the pork frame? That is gen-u-ine vinyl!’
‘Which frame would you like with GM and Chrysler? How about the save American jobs frame? Or the green frame? Or the indentured servitude to failing companies frame?’
The man has so many frames for so many bad pictures…
ajacksonian on September 2, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Nobody likes “bait and switch” sales. Nobody likes being chumped.
As a former Leftie, The One’s shtick was obvious to me from the get-go.
Not so for the GOP mother-in-law who voted for a Democrat for the first time ever. Not so for well-intentioned neighbor who wanted an end to “all the race stuff”. Not so for the beer buddy who was convinced Obama would be no different than anyone else when it came to “fighting the terrorists”.
Baited and switched, chumped…and pissed.
Bruno Strozek on September 2, 2009 at 12:15 PM
The growing meme is that the white people who voted for him only did so they could subject him to a historic public lynching.
LibTired on September 2, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Knucklehead on September 2, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Laura Ingraham’s been on it. Matthew Spalding, her guest from Heritage Foundation this morning, was very informative.
But if you’re asking Ed Couch or Allahpundit Heckler, you’d be involved with an exercise in futility. They must await the Boss’ decision before making any stand other than what they’ve already done, hands off “right-wing”. All must be politically advantageous within the Obamaworld PRIOR to any sign of alignment; right/wrong be damned as out-dated to populist survivalists. There’s room in the world for all kinds, unless of course Obama’s in charge. Appeasers enable.
maverick muse on September 2, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Here’s what, IMHO, is the difference between Hill and Obama. Obama went in with this arrogant attitude that the whole world stood in admiration of him, which is partly to blame on our own media. All he had to do was give a rousing speech now and then to keep the masses happy, and they’d fall all over themselves to pass anything he wanted them to. Hillary, on the other hand, had legislative experience and she would be damned if she’d have handed over a health care bill for this Congress to screw up. Hell, she would have written the thing herself AND gone out to sell it to the people. I was adamantly against Hillary being elected. Now? Not so much. “Courageous statesman my a$$.”
scalleywag on September 2, 2009 at 12:19 PM
This morning, some talking head democratic “strategist” said that Obama will be coming out to “simplify” the message using smaller words and sentences.
Is that not the most insulting thing to hear? Do they think we are complete morons? “Simplify the message. Use “smaller words”. Then they might understand better. How infuriating!
Grrrrrr.
Key West Reader on September 2, 2009 at 12:23 PM
I’m not sure it’s the same plant, but I heard recently that a joint Toyota/GM plant in CA was moving to Texas for non-union workers.
JiangxiDad on September 2, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Fighton03 on September 2, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Just a thought.
It’s mid-September. There are two important gubernatorial races in early November–New Jersey and Virginia.
To get a real sense of voter opinion, I wonder whether the Democratic members of Congress, especially Blue Dogs, would like to see how those races turn out before they pull up the covers with Obama on healthcare and other matters.
If the GOP runs away with those two gubernatorial races, I bet Blue Dogs sprint from Obama.
Pretty soon, standing by Obama in front of local voters will be like trying to pick up a girl with dogsh*t in your pockets.
BuckeyeSam on September 2, 2009 at 12:25 PM
It’ll be Obama 1.1. they’re bringing him back from vacation for a little tweak of the software and off he goes on the speech circuit again.
Fighton03 on September 2, 2009 at 12:28 PM
In those terms, this administration has given us nearly too much to work with; as distractions, though veritable, need organization aside from choosing the single first charge to pierce through this administration’s core, followed by that massive body of evidence.
maverick muse on September 2, 2009 at 12:28 PM
That’ll get the Sesame Street crowd back in the fold. It’s going to fail. How dare these POS in Congress try to remake a significant industry to deal with a problem that affects 5 to 15 million people–using “solutions” that won’t work.
People were stupid enough to give this guy a tryout, but I doubt that independents will run off the cliff with him. He’ll never go below 30% strong approval (Kool-Aid guzzlers and blacks), but fairly soon he’ll have 70% strong disapproval.
BuckeyeSam on September 2, 2009 at 12:30 PM
DNC’s new theme song: Slip-slidin’ away, slip-slidin’ awayayay..oh the nearer your destination, the more ya keep slidin’ away”.
Song has been going through my head for days now. Woo-Hoo!
MADgirl91 on September 2, 2009 at 12:40 PM
To paraphrase Michelle Obama: For the first time in my life, I’m terrified of my government and for my country.
hachiban on September 2, 2009 at 12:45 PM
Rat vs Cat, apologies to four legged rats. Obama needed Hillary out and found a clever solution, two cabinets, one to park his enemies, and one to park his friends.
I agree about Pelosi ‘cunning’ although it is exercised with the grace of a dog trying to rip a bone from another dog. apologies to dogs
Pelosi has more power under Obama. However if Hillary had won Hillary would have had to make big Obama concessions to appease the blacks. Pelosi could have used her position to ‘help’ Hillary make ‘amends’, and taken credit behind the scenes.
Hillary has Bill to make her likable and she doesn’t crave the camera, a plus. I am starting to divide pols into those who consider themselves ‘Americans’ and those who consider themselves citizens of something higher. In that category, the Clintons, despite their circle and their Asia sell- out, are more ‘American’ than Obama, Pelosi and Reid, Oh My, who are clearly ‘Other’
entagor on September 2, 2009 at 12:46 PM
What an appropriate commercial.
Hussein is Failing and they play the Kool Aid Commercial!
PRICELESS
BigMike252 on September 2, 2009 at 1:03 PM
Might make a good meme, like “Who is John Galt”.
petefrt on September 2, 2009 at 1:04 PM
Haha, I’m drinking the soda.
d1carter on September 2, 2009 at 1:06 PM
Heh, speaking of Shrillary, bet she’s sharpening her claws over the polls.
petefrt on September 2, 2009 at 1:06 PM
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Ford has taken government money several times in the past few years. Just because the money wasn’t part of the stimulus bills does not exempt them from the list of corporate welfare recipients.
Exhibit A: Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program
“USDOE announced in 2009 $8 billion in conditional loan agreements for Ford Motor Company; Nissan North America, Inc.; and Tesla Motors, Inc. to fund the development of advanced vehicle technologies. The loan commitments include a $5.9 billion loan to Ford for upgrading factories in five states to produce 13 more fuel-efficient models [...]
Ford Motor Company will receive its loans through 2011, using the funds to upgrade its engine plants in Dearborn, Michigan; Cleveland, Ohio; and Lima, Ohio, and to upgrade its transmission plants in Livonia, Michigan; Sterling Heights, Michigan; and Sharonville, Ohio. Ford will also upgrade its assembly plants in Chicago, Illinois; Louisville, Kentucky; Dearborn, Michigan; Wayne, Michigan; and Kansas City, Missouri, converting two of the truck factories into assembly plants for cars. In addition, the Ford loans will finance advances in traditional combustion engines and electrified vehicles and help raise the fuel efficiency of more than two dozen popular models.”
chimney sweep on September 2, 2009 at 1:06 PM
This must have been off of their HD feed. Why is it that it seems like ABC and NBC get on their HD feed a really annoying high pitch squeal, usually during news programs? God that is annoying
clement on September 2, 2009 at 1:16 PM
Obama hasn’t led because he can’t. All he’s done was go on world apology tours, take vacations, give soft-ball interviews, let Congress spend money like a drunken sailor, and give the same speech over and over. What’s he going to do to change his approval numbers? Go on TV more? Get on more magazine covers? If that worked his ratings would already be in the 90′s.
Fred 2 on September 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM
That was because Bush took a massive turn left in his second term. If he had stuck with Cheney, he would have been alright and we wouldn’t have the US now being run by marxists and the worst America-haters this nation has ever seen.
progressoverpeace on September 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM
Is there any sort of formal boycott against Government Motors going on? Or are people just smart.
PattyJ on September 2, 2009 at 1:24 PM
LOL and what a formidable force they presently are.
voxpopuli on September 2, 2009 at 1:41 PM
Hey BO if this is too hard feel free to go back to Chicago and organize a community.
ronsfi on September 2, 2009 at 1:43 PM
No formal boycott that I know of.
FNC had a spot this morning on the Russian government made cars, the Lada. Said they were inexpensive and nice looking. Only trouble is they broke down on average about twice a month.
That’s about what we can expect soon here.
petefrt on September 2, 2009 at 1:54 PM
I know I’m not the only one loving this. Not necessarily that the president is failing, that was a given considering his thin (partly invisible) resume, but the fact America still lives and Americans that value freedom are speaking out now.
I love it!
FireBlogger on September 2, 2009 at 1:55 PM
Me too. But rolling back all his damage is going to be a monumental task.
petefrt on September 2, 2009 at 1:58 PM
One that will take decades.
Dave R. on September 2, 2009 at 2:08 PM
My family owns three vehicles: one Ford, one Chrysler, one GM. I haven’t bought a foreign branded car for over 35 years. But I’m starting to rethink my stance, because even purchasing a Ford product benefits the UAW. It’s dawning on me that currently at least it’s better to buy a Japanese car that is assembled in the U.S. with non-union workers than further promote the UAW.
Christian Conservative on September 2, 2009 at 2:13 PM
I’ve recently rediscovered a wonderful old British sit-com called “Yes, Minister.” It’s funny still to this day despite being a late ’70′s TV show because all the red tape/government lies, etc that the show was lampooning in 1970′s England are now happening in 2009 America. Including experienced lifetime civil servants trying to manipulate an inexperienced pol (and vice versa).
There was even one episode where they opened a hospital with 500 employees. All were either union maintenance men or administrators. No doctors or nurses, so no patients were ever admitted and it won awards as the best run hospital in the UK.
DrAllecon on September 2, 2009 at 2:14 PM
wake me up when he is in the 30′s
PatriotRider on September 2, 2009 at 2:16 PM
According to some political experts, that could be in the next 4-6 weeks.
teke184 on September 2, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Now you got it right!
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on September 2, 2009 at 2:48 PM
All year it was the polls, the polls, the polls. “Don’t like what he’s doing? Too bad, wingnut, look at the polls!” HA-ha.
Jim Treacher on September 2, 2009 at 2:52 PM
Not a single conservative voice in that segment. Not even a Republican one. I expected better from Tapper.
edshepp on September 2, 2009 at 3:12 PM
Olympia snowejob
Call her office and say you are from Maine and represent a group of seniors against obamacare. It doesn’t matter if you don’t live in Maine. Find a zip code and town name off the net and call her now. Or say you are a moderate dem who voted for her, and you are against obamacare or any public option. We need to burn her local Maine offices as well as Washington. Call her now before she caves to the libs. Call her now!!!!
texaninfidel on September 2, 2009 at 9:07 PM
KEEP IT UP BARRY!!!
Be on TV 24/7
Try crying about your Grandmother (the one you called “a typical white woman”).
Give ANOTHER speech in prime time.
Try to hack off parents and give a speech to their kids (for your next push to get them into the YOUTH CAMPS) if they survive to 15 thru your OBAMA-NO-CARE.
Keep it Barry…….45….40….35….and take the RINO’s with you on the way down.
PappyD61 on September 2, 2009 at 10:29 PM
rat frakker superdelegates in our primaries were largely congress critters. they took Pelosi PAC money and all voted TOTUS convinced he had golden coattails to sweep them to victory
karmically they will be anchor to drag them to their defeat in 2010
frakkers
-proudly clinging to the Constitution
ginaswo on September 2, 2009 at 10:30 PM
cody1991 Pelosi was the reason Hill didnt get VP. Pelosi PROMOISED early in our primaries in interview after interview she literally say ” I guarantee there will be no joint ticket”
when pressed she kept saying “I just know”
she is an evil wanna be queen from Snow White, and to think I was overjoyed when she took the gavel. I was in my DEM delusion then. Now I absolutely abhor that woman.
as a 22 yr dem who campaigned for donated to and supported Hill let me say the DNC and Pelosi Cabl of Dunces fixed it.
O won every caucus, caucuses with no id required and buses of people showing up. Hill won almost every primary. Hill won ALL the biggest electoral states TX OH PA CA NY . It was ridiculous. the DNS and SDs did to us exactly what they do to all of us tea party patriots. called us racist. called DEM primary voters of WVA KY TX PA bitter clingy racists….
all fixed, right down to the acceptance speech being planned for MLK annioversary 1 yr in advance. giving MI votes to O who WAS NOT ON THE BALLOT. they literally TOOK 1/2 of votes , people who checked Hillary and GAVE THEM to O on May 31st at the Rules Bylaw Cmte meeting in literally a closed door backlroom deal
http://www.wewillnotbesilenced2008.com
sorry for the rant, lol I am in a hell of a mood with this in the school crxp today :(
ginaswo on September 2, 2009 at 10:36 PM
these video clips show a lot of the crxp that went down. Obama people were grabbing the sheets away at caucuses and locking out hillary voters. insane crxp. the media did jack shxt and we were all told we had no rights b/c the SCOTUS says primary business is private and not protected under the Constitution
ginaswo on September 2, 2009 at 10:39 PM
BOOTLICK MEDIA JAKE TAPPER CRIES IN ANGUISH.
Hey, Jake why don’t you and your fellow Gibby Fans grow some and actually start questioning the MARXIST?
What news are you actually going to be able to report if you don’t actually start INVESTIGATING these clowns in the Administration?
How about starting with HIS ADVISERS/CZARS?
You people in the Media are nothing but a bunch of bootlicking cowards. Your types in 1930′s would have done a soft focus Diane Sawyer interview of Hitler. Complete with pictures of him by his lakeside villa and the dogs running in the yard and small children with presents for him.
Tapper?
You’re not a journalist…you are a Bootlicker!!!
Obama?
We’re onto you….check your numbers with Independents. You keep pushing…..and you forever lose their trust.
And the cry went out across the land!!!
WATERLOO!!!!!
PappyD61 on September 2, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Ginaswo;
I’m way not a supported of Mrs. Clinton, but I always thought (and said) she got horribly abused during the primary.
Gleefully torn up by comics who never even took a tiny swipe at Obama; Trashed by those who worked the process to disadvantage her.
And, unable to meet Obama “force-on-force” because of fear of the race card.
massrighty on September 2, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Unpopular! Oh please!
He is the most popular President of the USA in 2009 than any other CURRENT President of the USA in 2009!
S/
DSchoen on September 2, 2009 at 11:00 PM
How right you are.
Geochelone on September 2, 2009 at 11:37 PM
Thanks, Geo!
massrighty on September 2, 2009 at 11:43 PM
forgive the off topoic post but
Olympia snowejob needs to be stopped !
Call her office and say you are from Maine and represent a group of seniors against obamacare. It doesn’t matter if you don’t live in Maine. Find a zip code and town name off the net and call her now. Or say you are a moderate dem who voted for her, and you are against obamacare or any public option. We need to burn her local Maine offices as well as Washington. Call her now before she caves to the libs. Call her now!!!!
texaninfidel on September 3, 2009 at 1:42 AM
Only because of the artificial effects of the Cash For Clunkers program.
BTW, if you boycott “Government” Motors, you’re helping to prolong gov’t involvement in that company. The fastest way to get DC out of Detroit is for GM & Chrysler to start turning a profit, eliminating the need for financial support from the gov’t.
Also, the person who deserves the most blame for this mess is Senator Richard “Big Dick” Shelby, (R. Mercedes/Honda/Hyundai). The Senate had the opportunity to craft some kind of bailout package that had oversight and grandfather clauses. Instead, Shelby was so intent on hurting the UAW and helping the transplanted foreign automakers in his state (and getting back at northern industrialists) that he killed any deal, forcing President Bush’s hand.
GM & Chrysler were going to get money from Washington either way. Shelby and the Senate Republicans had the opportunity to control the process, instead they abdicated, resulting in the UAW and the Feds owning GM.
Great job, Dick!
rokemronnie on September 3, 2009 at 8:57 AM
AP, Ed,
Are you guys sure you want posts like this? It could easily be seen as a threat of violence.
Also, he’s advocating lying about being a constituent of Snowe’s. Maybe he’s a moby.
Either way, he keeps posting his OT jabs at Snowe in every thread.
rokemronnie on September 3, 2009 at 8:59 AM
MSM tools are going into contortions to find new ways of kissing Obama’s backside and putting a happy face on his popularity slide.
RandyChandler on September 3, 2009 at 9:01 AM
In the video Jake Tapper looks ill, like he had a constipated epiphany.
BDU-33 on September 3, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Obama’s enemies are in the real Cabinet, where they need Senate approval. His friends become unconfirmed Czars, since even some Democrat Senators would balk at confirming them.
Hillary is probably laughing to herself has she watches Obama sinking trying to push socialized medicine, which used to be her “baby”. You know, been there, done that! She’s somewhat out of the loop as Secretary of State, but she probably enjoys more respect overseas than Obama does now, and is probably making some backroom deals for herself and Bill.
If Obama’s numbers continue to slide, look for Hillary to bail sometime in early 2010, win back her old Senate seat, then run in the 2012 primary as the “reasonable” Democrat. I could just see her ads, replaying the 2008 debates, then saying, “I told you Obama was dangerous and naive”!
There is a precedent for this–Colin Powell bailed on George W. Bush in 2003, and backed Obama in 2008. Hillary could also pull this off, since she’s married to the inventer of triangulation…
Steve Z on September 3, 2009 at 11:11 AM
…and referring to a group of human beings in such an objectifying, dehumanizing way — “the blacks” as opposed to “many black voters” or “some black leadership” etc. — only strengthens their case.
I hope your attitudes are not really the way they come across, because it is really frustrating for those of us whose only problem with Obama is his IDEAS to frequently feel as though racists see us as being aligned with them.
RegularJoe on September 3, 2009 at 11:29 AM
I hope we’ll all start shouting this idiot down. He/she keeps putting this crap in every thread. All this would accomplish is to discredit the anti-”reform” movement. Apparently txinfidel has never heard of caller ID, and thinks I’d be able to call Snowe’s offices and convince them that the Maine Senior Citizens Conference is headquartered in Knoxville, TN.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the truth is on our side. When we lie, we legitimize lying and lose the moral high ground.
And (as a Texan living abroad in Tennessee) I figure this idiot is probably IN Maine, and just SAYING they represent bloggers in Texas. The Texans I’ve known have too much honor to do a thing like this.
RegularJoe on September 3, 2009 at 11:35 AM
I personally question the automakers financial woes. I think it was a perpetrated necessity, to install the unions in a position of higher power, within the corporation. It’s quite possible it was a manufactured crisis, in order to pay back a political ally.
capejasmine on September 3, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Voting present when you’re the precedent and not acting like the President gets you Banana Republic popularity!
chickasaw42 on September 3, 2009 at 3:27 PM
hillbilly on September 3, 2009 at 5:46 PM
In the words of Bugs Bunny, “What a maroon”.
chewmeister on September 3, 2009 at 6:51 PM
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