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WASHINGTON — To borrow the famous line from the 1976 film "Network," Americans are mad as hell at Washington — and they’re not going to take it anymore.
That, at least, is the conclusion from the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, which finds:
-- that less than half the country approves of President Obama's job;
-- that the percentage believing the current Congress is either below average or among the worst is at an all-time high;
-- that the number viewing the Republican Party favorably is at an all-time low;
-- and that the Democratic Party doesn’t fare much better.What's more, nearly six in 10 respondents still say the country is headed in the wrong direction, and almost two-thirds think that the U.S. economy has yet to hit rock-bottom.
And it's unlikely those attitudes will change before the midterm elections that will take place less than three months from now.
"I think it’s a ‘Jet Blue’ election. Everyone is frustrated," says Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted the survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff. "And everyone is headed for the emergency exit."
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uh oh
Lets see the accomplishments:
1) Cancel old folks dividends at GM, Chrysler and BP without due process
2) No COLA for SS or VA reciepients
3) Pay raises for congress
4) Hire an attorney general from a law firm that does pro bono work for terrorists expecting him to have the best interests of American citizens deep in his heart
5) Sue Arizonia for attempting to protect Arizonia
6) Refusing to meet with the Gov of Arizonia or Texas to view the problem
7) Stating a willingness to meet with the president of Iran unconditionally
8) Permitting the president of Mexico to berate our country in our house
I can go on but you get the idea. If there is a Democrat standing on Nov 3 shame on America!
Someone is always left standing when the game is musical chairs.
Ah, reminiscences.
My personal favorite Bush personnel move was the hiring of Condoleezza Rice, putatively a Russia expert, as National Security Advisor, when George Bush knew full well, because Bill Clinton and Richard Clarke told him, that the actual threat was Al Qaeda, and not the Russians. And this putative Russia expert, having no apparent knowledge of how it works in the Middle East, later testified that who would have thought that people might actually blow themselves up in airplanes? Apparently, our National Security Advisor had never heard of suicide bombers before.
And why did we need a putative Russia expert in the first place? I thought the cold war was over, won by Ronald Reagan. And besides, Bush looked into Putin's eyes and saw Sarah Palin.
Well, you get my drift.
p.s. How exactly were veterans and people on Social Security better off under George Bush?
p.p.s. Why shouldn't we meet with the President of Iran? How has NOT meeting with him done us any good?
Anna Molly.... maybe its because then it gives Iran the (false) belief that they are equal to us in any way? When in fact we are not equal to them we are far superior to them and every other country in the world.
Thats half the problem right now. We have a sitting president who does not believe that we are the superior country in the world. He believes that we need to be knocked down a peg or two because weve had it too good (in his mind).
Anna Molly
Vets and SS reciepients missed no cost of living increases under Bush. Their savings were not taken away by Bush
Bush has been gone long enough to give it up.
Iran has stated their desire to annialate America's strongest friend in the middle east.
Maybe you can explain why he does not want to see the destruction in Arizonia. He sure spends a lot of time wondering around the country doing nothing.
I wonder why Obama and the democrat controlled congress is ranked lower than whale poop in the public's opinion...
Lets see...they ended none of the bush excesses that they were voted into office to do and in fact they have doubled down with Afghanistan and bailing out losers in the economy...oh yeah and no public employee left behind everyone else can go suck eggs...thanks for nothing barry...we'll see how you like dealing with a republican congress come January 2011.
In case you weren't paying attention...
Great. Maybe NOBODY will vote, and democrats will retain Congress owing to a lack of enthusiasm.
This may be a dumb question, but what is the connection between NBC and the WSJ? Are they in business together? Isn't WSJ owned by News Corp, which also owns Fox News? Just curious if this is a new partnership.
No, it's been around for quite some time, pre-dating the News Corp involvement.
General Electric owns NBC, or at least did. Somewhere I heard that Comcast bought somebody, but I think that was only MSNBC. Prior to the purchase by General Electric, NBC was a commercial television network. What it is today is open to debate. And what the "Today Show" is today is also open to debate.
I may be on probation again feisty. I've tried three times without success. here goes. if the dems cannot beat this repub field of buck, macmahon, angle, paul and the others then surely they have to understand they have no one to blame but themselves. if the obama- (must have 60) reid connection would have accomplished even one of these middle class survival deals, we would be looking at a whole different electorate.
REAL hcr, public option or single payer. sorry, but what you have now will not help the middle class at all.
a stimulus check to middle class families at least 15,000. I dare anyone to filibuster that.
rescind the bush antimiddle class anti bankruptcy law
get us out of the twin quagmire of iraq and afghanistan. use sp. ops and predator drones to go after bin laden.
now to another matter, I aquate deleting paul's(I do not know him) post yesterday with school districts having parents give permission to hear the president of the United States give a speech. cowardly. if he did not cry fire in a crowded theater or call for someone's death(oh wait, my friends on the right have done that) then it should have been fair game. shame on censorship. seemslike we may be at cnn.
Oh leon.....Im about to make your head explode. Im one of those parents that held his kid out of school the day that Barry did his indocrintaion speech to the school kids.
I wouldnt dare let my son listen to the socialist in charge.
In fact Im actively teaching him about all the bad that Barack Hussien Obama Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm is doing to this nation. The best part? My son (who is all of 8) said to me the other day "Dad if we cant spend more than what we make why does the President get to?"
From the mouths of babes.....
How right you are, Leon. If I could have voted more than once, I would have. And I also agree with regard to deleting posts.
Larry ~ Maybe your son ought to go to school the day they teach apostrophes. And maybe capital letters. Just sayin'
Anna
Apperantly you cant argue with my son's wisdom?
Sad when an 8 year old has more common sense then liberals.
What did I miss? Paul had a rant deleted? The tinfoil-hat-9/11 was an inside job-Paul? That Paul? Who did he offend, the lefties or righties? Probably the intolerant, anti-free speech lefties I'm guessing.
Hmmm... given that's it's always righties that are against Muslims building mosques, against ANYONE expressing their views to the President of the United States (ahhh... remember those restrictive "free speech zones" of GWB? Yeah, so do I), against ... well, pretty much ANYTHING if your a Republican Senator - ummm... yeah, I think you've got it backwards there, CU.
CU LATER!
If you walked ground zero and smelled the destruction you would understand the opposition to a Muslim monument.
That would be understandable if you would bother to have an investigation which would prove that Muslims actually pulled off that destruction. So far you haven't bothered to demand it.
Who did he offend, the lefties or righties?
How about "anyone with a working brain"???
That would make you one of the UNoffended Joe.
Investigation required? Can you read? Are you deaf? Are you blind? We spend time investigating what we see. What a waste of time. And they allow people like you to vote.
What kind of gibberish was that? If you want to blame the destruction of the twin towers and WTC7 on "the muslims" you ought to support an investigation that is empowered to prove that. Up until now you haven't and apparently still don't.
Poll: Bad news for Obama, Congress, political parties, WTF is wrong with this headline, POTUS is at 47% he has been at this point give or take for 7 g&*d*&m months, what is the current rating for the useless media? People keep saying the MSM is in the POTUS pocket, b&*lsh*t, y'all have been trying to make news by driving every neg story you could, I WILL KISS YOUR ELEPHANT IF YOU WILL KISS MY ASS, and I will bring my own box. Good bye dopes of nope of the GOBP.
homama face reality this time your hero took money out of the food stamps to give to teachers who were already paid when is enough enough do you really love this idiot more then starving children?
Jose von hussein please just stop the stupidity really taking food out of childrens mouths to give the teachers who were already piad The obama family needs to go on vacation yes go to greece stay there dont come back.
sandy - go back to the shores, you would rather have uneducated children, no police or fireman? It was you f'king repubs that got us where we are today. By ALL means let's go back and try it again, and expect a different result! That's insanity, just like the GNOPers
Typical liberal argument there MAC?
If we dont pass this bill we'll have to fire the teachers, firemen and police..... if we dont pass the stimulus bill by friday the world will collapse....
Just as long as you guys can spend some more of someone elses money right?
Face it..... Barry wants...no check that.... needs to line the pockets of the unions. Thats all this was about.... maybe if he said "You know we're going to cut funding to the arts or some other nonessential program and move that money to the teachers, firefighters and police" then maybe we wouldnt be in an uproar. But no..... he thinks it best to plunge us more into debt....
What happened to taking a scalpel to the budget? Oh thats right....the same thing that happened to putting any legislation up on the white house website for at least 5 days before voting on it....
Joe Wilson was right.... He LIED
wow fr, anderson cooper must be talking about you tonight. he just did a segment on free speech and yep, it is right there in the 1st amendment. he brought out that free speech doesn't mean just the speech you like, it means even the speech you don't like. if you need to reveiw it, it's on 200 dish tv.
CU Farley
It wasn't a rant.
I wrote , "I hope that the Cheney family will fly out to Alaska for Ted's funeral."
You know, being good republicans and all, showing respect. This got deleted.
To the democratic party dont come back from your break stay away until you can be replaced you have completly botched up the job after this last taking food out of the mouths of children on welfare to give to teachers who were already paid you have proved you are beyond incompetent do a staycation stay out of the white house for two years until you can be replaced.
How do you explain the 160,000 teachers that were being laid off this year because you republicans can't stand anyone to be educated. We can't be as smart aas you. lol lol lol
They are being laid off because the union guys promissed huge pension and benefits packages that now cannot be paid for. States are facing huge budget issues due to this. Another union bailout, when will end?
If NBC says his approval is at 47%, it must really be pushing the high 30 percent range. If these theives don't stop paying off there union buddies, their numbers will go much lower.
The polls are bad for Dems. because they won't get tough with the Repbs. We are in a bad way in the USA and people are getting mad at no one standing up for them. It is like a dog and pony show whenever anything comes up for a vote in congress. The people standing in line for public housing is a disgrace on our country, when we help out all the other countries and not that we shouldn't when time are good, but people in this country need help with jobs and other needs.
JoAnn
Congress has done much to try to help, the house of representatives anyway, the Senate is the real problem.
Direct your frustration and anger at the Senate and the Senators, leave the congresspeople out of this. I know that we lump the House and Senate together and call it Congress, but that is part of the problem, so let's stop falling in that semantic trap.
Paul. How is the senate to blame? A 60 vote majority means they make the rules period. The house has a super majority as well.
They can do anything they want with the support of not one Republican. Stop blaming republicans.
I didn't say anything about the Republicans. Your count is wrong Lieberman is an Independent, Bernie Sanders is an Independent, and Ben Nelson is a DINO.
It appears to me that a 47% approval rating with 5% not sure or undecided is pretty good considering all the problems Obama has had to face and confront upon entering office. Given those 5% lean Obama's way down the road as the economy improves and as the troops begin coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan Obama will have an approval rating above 50%.
Now compare what the same poll would say if a question was ask as to how those polled would rate (as far as support for) Obama's potential competitors for the 2012 election. Palin would most likely receive an approval rating of 30% or less, Gingrich about the same, Haley Barber from TN perhaps in the low 40s, Pawlenty from MN in the mid or high 30s, Romney in the low 40s. Who else is there the oppostion has to put up against Obama? None I can think of that would come close to breaking the 50% approval (support) range.
Seems to me that instead of being concerned with or touting Obama's approval ratings as being low the Republicans better start worrying about finding a candidate that could even break the 40% mark . At this point, and unless someone comes out of the woodwork that we are unaware of, it is one thing for the right to claim and boast that Obama has low approval ratings and another thing altogether to come up with a legitimate candidate of their own who could beat him in 2012.