Obama’s Army Is Going AWOL
February 20, 2010
The “Millennial Generation” of young voters, many of whom comprise one of the President’s most devoted political action committees, Organizing For America, who were a major factor in Barack Obama being elected President in 2008 are not “feeling the love” for the Democratic party that they once had.
In 2008, party affiliation among young voters who “leaned to” one party or another favored Democrats over Republicans by a margin of 62% to 30%.
By 2010 the margin has shrunk to 54% Democrat, 40% Republican.
In February 2009, 73% of Millennials approved of President Obama’s job performance.
Just one year later, in February 2010, only 57% of Millennials give Obama a positive rating.
Sounds like the Millennials “liberal love” is fading.
How do Millennials compare to the political leanings of other age groups?
Among Generation X’ers, 38% described their political views as moderate and 38% said they were conservative; only 20% described themselves as liberal.
More Baby Boomers and members of the Silent Generation described their political views as conservative than moderate; 43% of Baby Boomer voters said they are conservative, 36% described themselves as moderate and only 18% said they are liberal. Similarly, 45% of voters in the Silent Generation described their views as conservative, 35% as moderate and 15% said they are liberal.
After such a strong showing of support for liberal values in 2008, the tide among younger voters may be shifting.
In the fourth quarter of 2009, as many Millennial voters identified themselves as liberals (29%) as conservatives (28%), while 40% said they are moderates.
So what does all of this mean for younger voters future support of President Obama, Democrat political candidates, and liberalism in general?
Sir Winston Churchill said it best:
“If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a consevative at forty you have no brain.”
Source: Pew Research Center
Congress Hit With A Capitol Offense
February 18, 2010
A recent CNN poll revealed just how fed up Americans are with their members of Congress:
Only 1/3 of voters think that their particular members of Congress should be returned next year.
Sixty three percent of voters polled are against re-electing members of the House and Senate whose terms will be up this year.
The anger seems to be equally directed between Democrats and Republicans, however this is worse news for the Democrats as they have more seats at risk in the 2010 elections.
And the voters of Massachusetts sending Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate may have sent a message that the Democrats won’t want to hear.
Yet with the general feeling among the electorate, regardless of political affiliation, leaning towards “throw the bums out”, the Republicans shouldn’t become too smug.
Liberals Test Positive For Stupid
February 13, 2010
Jim Yardley on Pajamas Media makes the case that liberal progressives don’t have the common sense that God gave to a goldfish.
My son and his wife just had their first child, and he recently asked me what books he should get to read to his son.
I thought about it for a minute, and suggested the works of a renowned thinker who lived around 600 B.C. Before you say that ancient philosophy would be wasted on a child, I told him to get a children’s version of the works of Aesop.
Even though our liberal/progressive/Democrat (LPD) friends continue to insist that we have evolved as a species, reading Aesop will show any but the most obtuse observer that we really haven’t. Aesop continually shows us that there is a strain of humanity that “wants what it wants, when it wants it” and assumes that making such a statement is equivalent to postulating a law of nature. And just reading any recent news reports illustrates his point.
The new and current LPD “natural law” is illustrated in the “spread the wealth” mantra. But it hearkens back to two of Aesop’s fables. The fable about the ant and the grasshopper comes to mind, as does the one about killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
It’s the latter that demonstrates beyond any doubt that the LPDs have tested positive for stupid.
In 1819, in McCulloch v. Maryland, Chief Justice John Marshall agreed with Daniel Webster when he stated “the power to tax involves the power to destroy.” Now we have a Congress dominated by LPDs, who show that they also have tested positive for stupid. Taxes, higher taxes, and still more taxes (even when misnamed as fines or penalties) is a guaranteed formula for economic collapse, followed shortly by societal decay and national disaster.
They are, as so imaginatively illustrated by Aesop, trying to kill the golden goose. And in this reality, the golden goose is the real engine of wealth creation — small businesses. Without the engine that creates wealth, there will be no wealth to spread around, regardless of how anyone thinks that is supposed to happen.
Gallup Poll: Majority Of Democrats Have Positive View Of Socialism
February 5, 2010
According to a recent Gallup Pool 53% of Democrats view Socialism in a positive light.
So if 53% of Democrats are Socialists, what does that make the other 47% ?
Marxists?
Communists?
Astroturfers?
Election Day 1988 was only days away. Ronald Reagan was headlining a rally in Nevada. He said the options were the same as “when I stood before you.” Reagan framed the Democratic “choice” as one for “liberal policies of tax and spend, economic stagnation, international weakness, accommodation, and always, always blame America first.”
Reagan-era framing is regaining its relevance. Fair or not, liberalism’s worst stereotypes have returned from the dead to haunt Democrats. “Tax and spend liberal,” it’s back with the charge of being soft on security threats – a claim that dogged Democrats from debates over crime to the Soviets to terrorism.
Democrats branding deteriorated across the board from November 2008 to the close of 2009, according to the McClatchy-Ipsos poll. Democrats’ 17-percentage point advantage on taxes became a 2-point GOP advantage. Democrats’ 30-point advantage on the deficit became a 7-point GOP advantage. Democrats’ 9-point advantage on protecting the public against terrorism became a 7-point GOP advantage. The numbers were a light on Barack Obama’s new political terrain, a landscape eerily reminiscent to liberals of the bad old days.
Democrats Cave In, Will Seat Scott Brown
February 4, 2010
It’s time for Teddy’s seat warmer to fing a new place to sit.
Sen.-elect Scott Brown of Massachusetts on Wednesday demanded to be seated immediately, saying that while he was set to be sworn in Feb. 11, there are a number of votes scheduled prior to that date — votes that, once he is seated, Republicans can defeat.
Democrats, seeking to avoid a prolonged battle over seating a duly elected senator, quickly assented.
In a letter from Mr. Brown’s attorney to Gov. Deval Patrick and Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin — both Democrats — Mr. Brown argued that the results of the special election in Massachusetts on Jan. 19 are not in doubt. While Senator-elect Brown had tentatively planned to be sworn into office February 11, he has been advised that there are a number of votes scheduled prior to that date, For that reason, he wants certification to occur immediately, wrote his attorney, Daniel B. Winslow. As he is the duly elected United States Senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, he is entitled to be seated now.
The lawyer asked that the results of the Jan. 19 special election be certified without delay and no later than 11 a.m. Thursday, in time to allow Senator-elect Brown to be administered the oath of office by the Vice President tomorrow afternoon. Hours before Mr. Brown’s demand, Mr. Galvin delivered official copies of the election results to the Governor’s Council. Mr. Patrick’s staff announced that the governor would sign Mr. Brown’s election certificate in the council’s presence — as is required by law — during a ceremony at 9:30 a.m. Thursday.
Scott Brown Is Elected, Not Allowed To Vote In The Senate
January 31, 2010
In the past few days, the Senate has voted on three major pieces of legislation:
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s confirmation.
Establishing spending caps.
Raising the federal debt ceiling.
In these and other matters that have been voted on in the Senate since Brown’s election, the Senator from Massachusetts casting a vote has been Paul Kirk.
Former Massachusetts Senator Paul Kirk.
This is after numerous Democrat leaders claiming that Brown would be seated immediately, in accordance with Massachusetts state law.
Where is the outcry, not only from the citizens of the Bay State, but from the leadership of the GOP?
Calling Michael Steele.
Obama’s Answer For America Is: More Obama
January 28, 2010
President Obama must be a firm believer in the old saying “If at first you don’t succeed, try try again.”
I guess he never heard the one about what defines doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
There’s a story of an ex hausted tenor at La Scala who, facing repeated cries of “Encore,” responded that he couldn’t go on. A man rose in the audience to say, “You’ll keep singing until you get it right.”
That seems to be the defining principle of the Obama administration — whose response to every problem, every setback, every hiccup and challenge has been, simply, “more Obama.”
Indeed, for people who aren’t sticklers for political jargon, it will be a shock that last night was Obama’s first State of the Union Address, since it was his third formal address to a joint session of Congress. Yet for all of the political déjà vu, what was most surprising last night was the degree to which Obama delivered even more of the same.
Washington graybeards and pundits have been insisting that Obama needs to “start over,” “reboot” and “tack to the middle” after Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts. But Obama’s response last night was to recommit himself to the agenda that has gotten him in so much trouble.
In fairness, the president took a French-bath of Clintonism before he took to his beloved TelePrompTer. He doused himself with the scent of the deficit-fighter and trade-promoter. He unveiled a slew of small, easy, applause-gathering proposals and populist appeals that he knows will go nowhere.
He also indulged in a lot of feel-your-pain pathos, trying to connect with the real Americans suffering from the recession and the misdeeds of a “Washington” that Obama seems to think is run by someone other than him.
A New Declaration Of Independence
January 28, 2010
This time, it’s a Declaration Of Independence from Obamacare.
The only thing missing was quills and powdered wigs.
Eleven House conservatives on Wednesday signed a “Declaration of Health Care Independence” at an event staged by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), and there was no shortage of Revolutionary War rhetoric and tea party references.
Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) compared Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts last Tuesday to the battle of Lexington in April 1775. The congressmen signed their names at the bottom of the so-called declaration, which had been printed in a small font to mirror Thomas Jefferson’s calligraphy.
Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) noted that the signers of the original Declaration of Independence put their lives and property at stake. The Republicans who signed Wednesday afternoon appeared to be in no grave political danger, since they all have fairly safe seats.
“Last week Massachusetts fired another shot that was heard round the world,” Akin said. “Each of those shots were followed by various declarations. … The shot has been fired now twice in Massachusetts, and this is a declaration.”
I’m Better At Math And Puzzles Than The President
January 26, 2010
I understand what numbers and statistics mean, and I can “connect the dots.”
It’s becoming obvious that President Obama can’t.
Forget any hope you may have had about President Obama reducing the size of the federal deficit.
I know, I know, many of you reading this place some (if not more than some) of the size of the deficit on the shoulders of the Democratic Party’s reckless spending, bailouts, etc.
Regardless of how is at fault for the ballooning amount of debt America is saddled with, one thing is clear.
There is no HOPE of President Obama bringing about any significant CHANGE.
The President will not reduce the deficit, nor will he cut spending, due to the fact that he cannot do the math when it comes to things that affect him on a personal level.
Cosider the following:
In 2008, Obama won in Massachusetts by 26 points.
In last week’s Senate race, Martha Coakley lost to Scott Brown by 5 points.
That’s a 31 point difference.
In 2008, Obama carried New Jersey by 16 points.
In the recent Governor’s race, the Democrat incumbent candidate lost by 4 points.
A 20 point difference.
In 2008, candidate Obama won in Virginia by 6 points.
In 2009, the Democrat candidate for Governor lost by 18 points.
Net loss, 24 points.
However you crunch the numbers, these results are a clear repudiation of President Obama and his agenda.
And the news gets worse.
According to the latest Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll, the data shows that 25% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -16.
All of this should be a cause for concern on the part of president Obama.
Yet his arrogance continues to lead him to believe that American’s will still drink the Kool-Aid, and that he and his fellow Democrats can continue to promote their Socialist agenda.
Sorry Mr. President, the numbers just don’t add up.
House Majority Leader Has A “Senior Moment”
January 25, 2010
I feel bad for him, but what other explanation could there be?
When asked to comment on the results of last week’s Senate race in Massachusetts, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer had this to say:
“I think what the public is angry about is they see, first of all, an opposition for opposition’s sake.”
He was of course alluding to the Democrats often-made claim that Republicans won’t support health care reform, or the rest of President Obama’s agenda, simply to be obstructionist.
And that the American public is mad at what Hoyer believes is “opposition for opposition’s sake.”
They sure have a strange way of showing it Steny.
They show that they are fed up with Republicans in general, and the Republican Party opposing health care “reform” by electing yet another republican to the Senate, one who made no secret of his opposition to passing Obamacare by signing his autograph with the number “41″.
As in 41 Republicans taking away your party’s supermajority.
And they elected number 41 in a state that hasn’t elected a Republican Senator in 42 years.
Oh yeah Congressman Hoyer, I can see where your coming from.
And I’ve got a pretty good guess as to where you and many of your fellow Democrats are going this November.
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