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U.S. Uninsured Rate Continues to Fall

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Focus On This: "But They Don’t Like Its Critics Either"

See, you've got your smart white guys, and they're really smart - sharp as a whip. And then you've got the slow guys, and when I say slow I mean s-l-o-w. Here's Hot Air if you don't believe me:

  The whole idea behind the “defund ObamaCare” strategy, I thought, was that risking a shutdown would draw public attention to the new health-care law, which would in turn boost opposition to it and generate a groundswell of discontent that eventually forced Obama to cave. Maybe that’s happening; there’s no way to tell since there hasn’t been a major poll taken on O-Care since the shutdown. But the fact that Gallup and other polls find the anti-ObamaCare party’s approval dipping lately isn’t an encouraging sign that that strategy’s working. For all the justified trumpeting of this morning’s AP poll that O’s approval rating had dropped to 37 percent, the fine print reveals that Congress’s approval now stands at … just five percent. What exactly is our pitch to Obama right now? That he should abandon his signature domestic achievement because his numbers are falling — even though ours are falling faster? That can’t be the “groundswell” we were hoping for. In fact, ironically, the worse the GOP’s numbers get, the more Obama may feel inclined to stand firm in protecting the law. The public may not like O-Care but they don’t like its critics either.

Two: People will say that the dip in GOP favorability is partly the product of Republican infighting rather than the wider public souring on the party. And, per Gallup, that’s true,... 


We may be waiting a l-o-n-g time for these idiots to wise up,...

 

Uh, Congress: What Is In These Eyes That Say "I Care"?

Cry, scream, howl - you can't win:

As Congress' inability to agree on compromises that would reopen the partially shut-down government and raise the looming debt ceiling continues, Americans give Congress an 11% job approval rating, down eight percentage points from last month and one point above the worst rating in Gallup history.

This is the most losingest losing, of a loss, since we started calculating "losers" around here:

I'm talking an epic flame-out with a whimper.

FUCKING ROMNEY FUCK,...

Nice Place: What Are You Paying In Rent?

"Regardless of whether you favored or opposed the health care legislation passed this week, do you think the methods the Democratic leaders in Congress used to get enough legislation — were [they] an abuse of power, or were [they] an appropriate use of power by the party that controls the majority in Congress?

Abuse of power 53%

Appropriate use of power 40%

No opinion 7%"

-- Gallup Poll

Well, well, well. These are interesting findings on who the supposed "fascists" are out there. What? It doesn't really mean that? Really? Then let's follow it up with some articles noted by James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal:

"• 'Albermarle County GOP's Headquarters Vandalized'--headline, WBDJ-TV Web site (Roanoke, Va.), March 26

• 'Brick Smashes Michigan GOP Office Window'--headline, Associated Press, March 29

• 'Norman Leboon, Accused of Threatening to Kill Rep. Eric Cantor, Donated to Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign'--headline, OpenSecrets.org, March 29

• 'The danger of political violence in this country comes overwhelmingly from one direction--the right, not the left.'--Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, March 30"

4/3/10 UPDATE - Also from The Wall Street Journal:

" • 'The arrests of members of a Michigan-based "Christian" militia group should convince doubters that there is good reason to worry about right-wing, anti-government extremism--and potential violence--in the Age of Obama. . . . The episode highlights the obvious: For decades now, the most serious threat of domestic terrorism has come from the growing ranks of paranoid, anti-government hate groups that draw their inspiration, vocabulary and anger from the far right.It is disingenuous for mainstream purveyors of incendiary far-right rhetoric to dismiss groups such as the Hutaree by saying that there are "crazies on both sides." This simply is not true.'--Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, March 30

• 'Most of the indicted militia members accused of being anti-government extremists have active voting records, a check with area voter registration offices showed yesterday. One is a registered Democrat, and the party affiliations of the rest could not be determined. Jacob J. Ward, 33, of Huron, Ohio, voted as a Democrat in the 2004 and 2008 primary elections.'--Toledo Blade, April 1"

Let's see: documented political violence, accompanied (repeatedly) by "spin" from the paper of record, pinning it all on their political opponents. That sounds pretty illiberal if you ask me. Fascist, even, when I put it with the ugly "ends justifies the means" attitude I've seen since ObamaCare was "rammed through" the process. It's like liberals "don't care" if they're doing wrong - which isn't surprising, considering how often they've told me, to my face, they "don't care" about right or wrong and actually want to start a civil war.

Oh well, America's dealt with wannabe fascists before, and it never ends well - for them - so keep it up, kids:

You're eventually going to discover that winning the House - and/or seemingly being in charge - ain't always everything it's cracked-up to be.

Placeb-O (With A Little Flavoring To Fool You)

"A majority of people said his policies have had either no effect yet on improving the economy or had made it worse, underscoring how his political strength still rests on faith in his leadership rather than concrete results."

-- Jeff Zeleny and Dalia Sussman, making the connection between the president, cultish NewAge belief - and good ol' homeopathy - ever more clear, in The New York Times.

Keep waiting, y'all,...

Rock Lobster: Down! Down!! Down!!!

"After 30 days, the Gallup Poll shows Obama has about the same approval rating as did George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush, the man whose eight years in office the Illinois senator so often denounced as destructive during the recent campaign."

-- Andrew Malcolm, watching the smoke dissipate - as the cult's mirror cracks - after one fucking month, in The Los Angeles Times.

"Pelosi and Reid called Bush's budgets 'dangerous' and 'unpatriotic,' but with Obama, they've changed their tune."

-- Byron York, standing the Democrat's ruthless "say anything for a win" hypocrisy and lies up, front and center, in The DC Examiner.

"I don’t look back on those things and regret them, but I’m willing to rethink them. And there are many things which I’m going to rethink."

-- Bill Ayers, the domestic terrorist - who helped Barack Obama's climb to power - admitting he's everything Sarah Palin said he was, on Don Surber.com.

"Here's what's going on dude: you're not actually allowed to take over buildings. Believe it or not.

(Also: 'We need to look at the situation, the hierarchy, the power relationship here.' Okay: you're surrounded by cops.)"

-- Hamilton Nolan, acknowledging a major tool of 60's protesters - and the delusions that go with them - have always been flat-out wrong, on Gawker.

"To be candid, the screwed-up, shared California mentality,...."

-- Victor Davis Hanson, on who and what's to blame - and, though he didn't say "NewAge cultism" (using "screwed-up" and "shared" instead) he might as well have - while writing for Pajamas Media.

Fooling Some Of The People Some Of The Time

"Question: Has Barack Obama’s popularity already plunged by 15 points?

Answer: Citing a Gallup Poll, the London Sun reported President Obama is “down” to 68% approval. If this keeps up, he’ll be in negative numbers by Easter."

-- Don Surber, reminding us that smoke and mirrors ultimately leave one with a cloudy reflection, as Don Surber.

One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others

"Word came this weekend that a new USA Today - Gallup Poll found the 44-year-old [Sarah Palin], a mother of five, is the nation's second most-admired woman, behind only Hillary Clinton and ahead of someone named Oprah Winfrey."

-- Andrew Malcolm, finding the conservative Governor of Alaska, lodged right between NewAge's proverbial "rock and a hard place," mentioned in The Los Angeles Times.

Once Blacks Get The Facts (They Never Go Back)

"The fact that black Democrats are much closer to [Republicans] than to nonblack Democrats,...is noteworthy given that blacks overwhelmingly identify themselves as Democrats,..."

-- Frank Newport, giving voice to a conversation I had, just last night, with a group of blacks - who were shocked to learn of Barack Obama's non-existent "record" - and all without taking a poll on Gallup.

Confirmed: Ex-Lax Is Running Ahead Of Obama!

"PRINCETON, NJ -- The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update shows John McCain moving ahead of Barack Obama, 48% to 45%, when registered voters are asked for whom they would vote if the presidential election were held today."

-- Gallup

HERE'S ZOGBY. And USA TODAY.