Those Obama approval polls are interesting, but…
…not especially important.
We keep reading about how Obama’s approval ratings are “hovering near all-time lows.”
Only 43% now consider him a strong leader. Only? That 43% figure apparently represents the number of Americans who don’t read the news and/or don’t care, and/or who are so firmly planted in the Democratic camp that nothing could dislodge them.
It is not an encouraging statistic. It should be in single digits.
What’s more, why would Obama care about his rating? He will never run for office again (if the 22nd Amendment holds up). And although he doesn’t enjoy disapproval—he’d much prefer the wild adulation he’s accustomed to—he can take it, because both his narcissism and his staff (and the perks of his office, like vacations and golf) shield him from it. The only reason he would care about this level of disapproval is if it makes it harder for him to do what he wants to do in his next two and a half years of office.
Disapproval would make it harder for Obama to do things—if in fact he was making any attempt to cater to the wishes of the American people, or at least to cajole and fool them into thinking he is. But for Obama, bucking the majority opinion on a number of fronts, both foreign and domestic, is nothing new. It’s actually been a hallmark of his presidency, Obamacare being one of the earliest and most prominent examples. The bill was never popular, but that never mattered to him or his Democratic leaders in Congress; it was going to be happen anyway, by hook or by crook. Same with amnesty, same with whatever else he might have in mind. The dilemma for Obama is how to present it to the American people in such a way that they don’t elect a Congress in 2014 that is so overwhelmingly Republican that it could veto or somehow otherwise block what he wants to do.
Even if that were to happen, Obama figures he can get around such a Congress through executive action. You can bet he has a team of lawyers working hard to figure out the best way to do that without running afoul of the Supreme Court. You can also bet he wouldn’t mind if something really really bad happened to one of the conservative SCOTUS justices during the remainder of his term, so he could also get to change the current makeup of the Court and swing it to a more liberal direction for the foreseeable future.
As a check on Obama, there’s always the power of Congress to impeach and convict (impeachment is nothing without conviction), which would depend on how many votes there would be for conviction in the Senate. And that’s another reason Obama might be paying at least a tiny bit of lip service to soothing the American people prior to that 2014 election. Even then, for conviction in the Senate a two-thirds (67) vote would be necessary.
It is certainly theoretically possible for there to be enough votes in the Senate as a result of the 2014 election to convict Obama, although it is highly unlikely. Currently there are 45 Republicans in the Senate, with 53 Democrats and 2 Independents who caucus with the Democrats, making a grand total of 55 for the Democrats. However, 21 Democratic Senate seats are up for grabs in 2014, as opposed to 15 Republican ones. If the impossible were to happen and Republicans won all of the contested Democratic seats and lost none of their own, Republicans would still have only 66 Senate seats, and would need one Democrat to cross over and join them in order to convict.
But of course, there is almost no chance of such a sweep happening in the first place. So any effort to impeach and convict Obama, even if Republicans gain a majority that’s realistic for them, would require significantly more Democratic crossover votes than one. It is hard to imagine a scenario where enough Democrats would be willing to do that.
Therefore, the last direct power the American people had over Obama was the 2012 election, and they blew it. Now they are stuck, and Obama knows it, which gives him freedom as defined in the song “Me and Bobby McGee”: nothin’ left to lose.
War is coming..
cause the opposition would be up against tweedle dumb (obama) and tweedle dee (biden)… the opposition wrote the play book, and is years ahead..
too bad you dont do a survey of the new military equipment that they supposedly dont have, and the missile tests and the 16 times the nuclear bombers came at the US and and and and…
Political correctness was invented by Marxists to destroy Western society from inside…. And in Russia, there is no political correctness at all! The reason is that Marxists do not need to undermine the Russian society from the inside, because it is already Marxist – Konstantin Preobrazhensky
One might ask, given the tools available to the Russian strategists, how can they fail?
people love to say that they are backwards, they are demoralized, their economy sucks, and so on..
Russia created the first satellite
Russia put the first man into space
Russia built the first operational H bomb
Russia built the largest H Bomb that rang the planet 7 times
all their equipment is nuclear hardened with the most primitive stuff working after an EMP they have compromised our organs of state
they have waited and helped manipulate the politican situation that we exist in now, and they did not do it for comedic relief, but for their own gain and our end
the US underestimated germany thinking poland would box them in… we underestimated japan, which almost won their war with one strike at pearl harbor
we do not have the knowlege, the cohesiveness, the mechanical ability, nor the people with skills as we did then
hitler was convinced of his friend stalin, who together started a world war… at the time hitler had his famous conversation with Mannerheim…
Russia had 35,000 tanks in 1941….
[more than all the other countries combined]
[hitler destroyed them before they could be used]
to quote the daily news graphic…
they have not destroyed any of the nuclear missiles that they were supposed to destroy over the past 30 years, they still have most of them including the new ones (and the one they tested the past few days)
today, we have no idea what they have or dont have
and today, they also have missiles, mind manipulative drugs, comrades in state, publishing houses, new biological weapons, and a heck of a lot more we ignore
Nyquist
imagine world war two, but with better equipment, and instead of FDR and Churchill, you have Obama and simlar in the UK…
Konstantin Preobrazhensky points out that the KGB now FSB keeps a whole department whose only job was to manage heads of state who were soviet agents!!!
Today, the (younger) people are more soviet than they are american!!!
do we realize that a leading commander of ISIL was born in the soviet union? trained there? how much do their actions repeat the actions of the past?
Not everything must be approached as a frontal attack.
What will happen the first time Obama gives a speech, and is surprised by a chorus of boos? He’s not used to such treatment… and I expect it would get to him, big-time.
It is not an encouraging statistic. It should be in single digits.
Precisely. President Bush’s numbers were noticeably lower than that; in my opinion it was because of constant harping by the press that BO doesn’t have to worry about.
As the Instapundit says – the media are just Dem operatives with bylines.
While there is a minority (25%?) who will continue to drink the kool-aid no matter what bho does or doesn’t do, his poll numbers will continue to decline. There so many disasters ahead of us that imo will open many eyes to the messiah’s anti-American duplicity. I will not list all the dangers ahead, but the ramifications of the border crash and the conflagration in the ME will come to haunt bho and his minions.
Tens of thousands of 3rd world children will bring disease and bankruptcy to school districts and vicious latino gangsters will invest the inner cities from north to south to east to west. ISIS/ISIL/IS will continue to grow and infiltrate the West and bring beheadings to a mall near you. Bho’s speech tonight will be treated by the msm as majestic and profound but he will not actually implement a strategy that will make it “a manageable problem”. That would require thousands of boots on the ground, American boots, and this sorry excuse of a president is incapable of doing what must be done.
We are going to be harmed, everyone, by just these two issues; in addition to all the other issues such as obamacare’s impact on the economy over the next 2 years. Jimmy Carter will look competent by comparison. Daniel asks an important question. How will our narcissist in chief react when a vast majority view him as a dangerous failure? Will he retreat to AF1 and endless rounds of golf, will he become even more vindictive and blatantly nasty, or will he melt into a pool of self pity?
How about this for a creative solution – Charge Obama and Holder under the RICO statutes. That’s how they nailed Buddy Cianci in Providence.
Obama and Holder are certainly running a corrupt organization.
Only problem is to keep it away from the US Attorney. File it in a state court.
Nothing else seems able to work
We should not be rating Obama or Presidents really. We should be rating other American groups.
My approval rating for Democrat voters is at 5%. I think they are stinky rotten people who are indifferent to the death and misery they absolutely cause. I think they are selfish, lazy, and ungrateful.
Other than that I think they are fine.
My approval rating for all of the sub-groups now vying for premier victim status is also at 5%.
My approval for George Bush is at about an 80% rating. Not bad.
However, my approval rating for all the Rs who piled on him during his 8 years is about 6% – not democratesque, but really bad. They are also lousy people.
But if shit happens tomorrow, impeachment might not be so far from possible?
In my internet travels I have read that 37% is a hard core left percentage that will view him favorably no
matter what so subtract that from 43 we get 6 %,
that ‘ll work !
This is ethnic bloc voting.
Barry is carrying ethnic blocs because they’re “team oriented.”
Jon Stewart is “team oriented.” No matter which way Barry turns, Jon is totally on board.
Nothing yet has caused any serious pain to his ethnic bases.
His economic chaos is largely directed at classic GOP voter cohorts. 0-care is already drawing blood from small businessmen, coast to coast.
This is the reality of class warfare in our time.
What no-one is really prepared for is when the camel buckles.
Barry’s ENTIRE economic equation depends upon taking from the GOP/ Whites to feed his kind of voters.
[ Not withstanding his liberal White base, Barry is, at heart, a racist. He can’t contain it. It pours forth from every pore. It’s the way he rolls. It’s the Wright way. ]
His international policy depends upon sticking Bibi with all of the blame. (Think of Bibi as the new Bush.)
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What Barry fears is being tag-teamed by Congressional committees: House and Senate.
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The ONE thing that would bring Democrat senators into the convict column would be the destruction of the Democrat party.
It’s what really motivated Nixon to bail out: his party turned on him — and, obviously, only at the last second.
This bears emphasis: the flip and the ejection are NEVER seen in advance.
It’s futile to predict when an epic gaff will bring down a president. By definition, it comes out of the blue.
The very senators that will turn on him — absolutely don’t EVER imagine that they’ll ever have a reason to… right up until the last second… and the bombshell explodes.
It could be something as basic as treason with Putin. It could be something as obvious as the stolen vote in 2012 becoming irrefutable public knowledge.
It could be discovery that he’s been ‘pocketing senators’ with NSA blackmail.
It could be that he set ebola loose upon the land. His own faction dies in the Senate during the pandemic that he didn’t contain.
(BTW, ebola is ramping away, ever faster, ever faster.)
Soon it will be too late for an effective quarantine.
Barry’s decision to inject the Pentagon into the soup virtually assures that the epidemic reaches America — and spreads even faster in our urbanities.
Thus, he will have killed off his ethnic base — which is overwhelmingly centered in major cities. Rural America hates his guts.
Such a terrible disaster can change the metrics overnight. Ebola would simply destroy the Democrat party.
Yet, Barry is ‘playing’ with that time bomb.
Ebola suicide ‘bombers’ crashing the border are the avant garde of jihad, meanwhile barry flies to an undisclosed location to watch the panic and play spades with reggie.
Obama’s high poll numbers are indeed troubling. Like Hugo Chavez, Obama has learned how to manipulate people by appealing to their envy and greed. He claims credit for all good things which happen and blames someone else for all the bad things. Even though Venezuela is a total disaster, Hugo Chavez’s number are still high. Now that he has died he has become a national saint.
The question is whether Obama will be satisfied with two terms in office. If he has his way, he will undoubtedly be president for life. Other Democrats will probably block any attempts for a lifetime presidency since they want their own turn, but many things can change in two years.
As the perennial cynic, I’m not expecting the dummies (GOP) to do anything with a majority other than get hammered by a well orchestrated media campaign to portray them as worse than ISIS for America- that is the real America- women, minorities, and every other subdivision of Americans.
With bozos like Boner and McConnell steering the GOP public relations aground, they will be playing defense until the 2016 elections, where they will promptly get their asses handed to them again. And the blame-storming will begin the following day with Karl Rove, leading the loser interviews and pointing to the TEA party and other intractable, unreasonable conservatives who wouldn’t go along with amnesty and other “grand bargains”.
If I’m wrong and those wankers don’t get slapped around for 2 years, it will be a miracle, or because Obama gets beaned by a stray golf ball, falls into a permanent coma, and Biden ends up president.
Folks, you’re still imagining a White America — the nation of your youth.
But the maxim of Leftist politics is population replacement.
You now live in a nation that has more brown babies than white babies.
Yeap.
Barry is deliberately importing Latin American politics — by importing Latin Americans.
It really is that simple.
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And in other news: check out the number of Muslims clogging Moscow and Paris!
Araby, in contrast, would shoot to kill any White infidels that flushed out into a major street.
And, yet, STILL, few comprehend the psychic control that the Third World has over the NY Times — and Citicorp. Both are — in all practical terms — bankrupt — and politicized.
They are the “flounders” of modern American discourse.
From the ancient past: who watches the watchers?
So, who is watching the WaPo, the NY Times?
As far as ethnic cleansings/ genocides are concerned — the Times is a recidivist.
The Times got quiet: the Holomordor, the Holocaust, the Killing Fields, …
I haven’t even checked back to the Armenian genocide.
EVEN NOW The Times can’t much discuss:
ISIS — the Barry & Hillary connection — see West.
The irresolution of Barry: he won’t defend ANY Western values.
The Times won’t address Barry’s anti-Semitism. No-one questions why EVERY liberal Jew flees his administration. Yeah, e v e n t u a l l y they figure it out.
Barry hates brains. At heart, he’s NEVER recovered from the MOST influential person in his life: his Grandmother.
She’s a total nightmare. I know, I’m a first person witness.
Napoleon, Stalin, Hitler, Soetoro — ALL had horrific childhoods. Is there a pattern?
Okay, they ALL came up from the ‘south’ to dominate their target nation.
But I put it to you: is their ‘connection’ more towards their horrific childhoods — ESPECIALLY their horrific EMOTIONAL childhoods?
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Most of humanity is fortunate: their mother loved them beyond life itself.
Barry is ODD. He was raised — almost entirely — by a bitter bitch that was furiously angry with his very existence, his Grandmother.
I say entirely because Stanley did NOT raise him from the cradle. His Grandmother did. Stanley was off in Washington State getting her education.
Very much later, Barry was DUMPED on Grandma — when his birth mother needed to fly off to Pakistan — now obviously as a CIA accounting agent in chief for its biggest secret war: Charlie’s War.
Yeah, Barry’s mother was hip deep in ALL of the disbursements to the muj.
I expect the full history to evidence that the KGB liquidated his mother.
Her role was THAT obvious to the KGB.
Killing her was payback for all of the Soviet soldiers lost to the CIA/ muj during Charlies War.
You must be staggeringly naive to believe that Stanley had a post in Pakistan — for years on end — the kept her ‘trapped’ in a four stare hotel — and she was NOT CIA.
The hotel, and everyone in it, was under the protection of the Pakistani Army — and ISI. It was their ‘money tit.’ WAKE UP.
Barry lost his mother to the KGB.
Can you imagine a world wherein the KGB does NOT liquidate the woman who’s been financing ALL of their pain?
That HE actually comprehends such a fact, I rather doubt.
Such untoward thought towards the ultimate enemy: Moscow is most uncharitable.
But consider my track record: it’s off the hook brilliant.
So much so, it positively freaks witnesses out.
No, they are not blog posters. The events occurred too long ago.
Falklands War
Gulf 1991
Gulf 2003 — largely
ALL predicted in advance. My audiences were — in the main — officers in the American military. The rest were highly ranked non-coms. (in the extreme)
Non-com #1 was the left hand in I Corps — VIETNAM. He stood in on EVERY command confab during his tour. His role: ass kicker for the Lt General in command — as in RIGHT ADJACENT to his office.
Non-com #2 was the left hand in II Corps — as in the scene you’ll watch in Apocalypse Now. (1979) Yeap, this guy ran that HQ — and made all of his rank — right there. He ended up his US Army career in the Pentagon. In simple English, there was NO ONE he did know — personally. (Being Japanese, he was the king of the VCR presentation. Result: he was the VCR champ of countless Pentagon decision presentations. When he punched out, he held #4 seniority across the entire US Army. (!)
This almost equaled my Marine. His general went on to command the entire USMC. Yes, he knows everybody who’s anybody.
Between the two, you had a pipeline to the entire US military. Believe it.
That’ what seniority does.
Now the best part:
BOTH were amazed and astounded with bert’s ‘solution to Vietnam: the hose.
This tactic seems to have reached the CIA and those capturing John Walker Lindh. For the CIA use EXACTLY the tactic I mentioned in 1990/1991 in Honolulu: cold water.
An absolute connection will likely NEVER be made.
However, somehow, my suggestion that COLD WATER would totally ruin enemy morale seems to have left a mark.
Being — right at the scene — I can assure you that BOTH Non-Comps were SHOCKED and impressed.
For my target was a Sergeant with the 25th US Army division. HE was a “tunnel rat” — which launched my entire conversation.
Both sergeants were absolutely speachless.
(Both were confused, I talked like an officer — and acted like a non-com. They were perplexed because I wouldn’t tolrate ANY anti-Army, anti-Navy- anti- Marin, anti-Air Force, , anti Coast Guard speech.
For I have fathers and across ALL of the services.
Say, did you know that the Coast Guard provided ALL of the crews for EVERY landing craft? Yeah, it’s dropped into history’s bin.
Did you know that landing craft pilots (coast guardsmen) had absolutely NO PROTECTION – and the WORST causualties during EVERY landing ever attempted?
EVERY fillm focuses upon the drop-ramp. The bullets were ALWAYS focused upon the ‘wheel house” the Coast Guardsman!
One could go through a hundred war films and NEVER discover that the poor dude at the wheelhouse is exclusively a Coast Guardsmann!
Yiikes!!!
Sorry about the typos.
“You can bet he has a team of lawyers working hard to figure out the best way to do that without running afoul of the Supreme Court. ”
Doesn’t matter. With something like amnesty, it will not matter what SCOTUS decides if and when they get around to considering it. The horses will not only be out of the barn, they will be off the ranch.