Do You Believe Me Or Your Lying Eyes?

The one thing that cannot be said about Barrack Obama is that he lacks confidence in his ability to sell anything to anyone. In today's Saturday Youtube address to the nation, the President claimed with a straight face that his Porkulus Bill “has worked as intended” at creating jobs jobs because, if not for the Porkulus, “state deficits would be nearly twice as large as they are now, resulting in tens of thousands of additional layoffs -- layoffs that would affect police officers, teachers, and firefighters.”



The chart below created by the Obama economic team to sell the Porkulus set out what the bill would accomplish - keeping unemployment from reaching 8%. In fact, as shown by the red dots added by Innocent Bystanders, unemployment has risen unabated to 9.5%, a level far above the Team Obama prediction without the Porkulus.



Mr. President, if your pollsters haven't clued you in recently, folks are catching onto your whoppers.

The Obama Apology Tour Hits A Shameful Low

Two American journalists were captured by North Korea somewhere on the border with China and sentenced to twelve years in a slave labor camp.

Does our invertebrate President protest and demand their release in a heady exhibition of his much touted "tough and direct diplomacy?" Not a chance. Instead, Secretary of State Clinton just cravenly apologized to the North Koreans in a letter and in a town hall meeting with Foggy Bottom bureaucrats.

I do not suppose there is any chance at all that the North Koreans would accept Obama and Clinton in trade for the journalists?

Shameful.

Gearing Up For 2010

For the second straight week, the GOP leads the Dems in the Rasmussen generic congressional poll of likely voters. In what may be the best environment for GOP congressional gains since 1994, the National Republican Congressional Committee is finding a rich crop of candidates to run against Dem House incumbents. The GOP claims to have its favored candidates recruited for the top 20 targeted districts and is now working on the next tier necessary to retake the House.

UPDATE ONE: For the first time in the past two election cycles, likely voters trust GOP more than Dems on vast majority of issues:

Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on eight out of 10 key electoral issues, including, for the second straight month, the top issue of the economy. They’ve also narrowed the gap on the remaining two issues, the traditionally Democratic strong suits of health care and education.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that voters trust the GOP more on economic issues 46% to 41%, showing little change from the six-point lead the party held last month. This is just the second time in over two years of polling the GOP has held the advantage on economic issues. The parties were close on the issue in May, with the Democrats holding a one-point lead.

Voters not affiliated with either party trust Republicans more to handle the economy by a 46% to 32% margin.

Elephants, keep voting unanimously against every bit of Donkey socialism, spending, borrowing and taxes that come down the pike. Let the Party of Asses own this steaming pile of a national government in all its smelly glory.

Summertime Blues Deepen

Rasmussen polling over the past week is reporting a collapse in Obama job approval numbers that continued today. In its presidential job approval survey, Rasmussen offers respondents four answers: (1) Strongly Approve, (2) Somewhat Approve, (3) Somewhat Disapprove, and (4) Strongly Disapprove. The pollster adds all approval and disapproval for an over all presidential job approval number and offers a Presidental Approval Index of the most passionate likely voters by subtracting those who strongly disapprove from those who strongly approve.

Today's Rasmussen Reports announced that 32% of likely voters Strongly Approve, 20% Somewhat Approve, 11% Somewhat Disapprove, and 37% Strongly Disapprove. This gives Mr. Obama a 52% to 48% split in overall job approval, but a -5% Presidental Approval Index among those who are most passionate about the President. In sum, Obama's policies have completely polarized the country and those who Strongly Disapprove of his job performance are the fastest growing segment of the electorate and now make up a plurality of likley voters.

UPDATE ONE: Obama's Presidental Approval Index is now -8:


Rasmussen notes:

Thirty-nine percent (39%) now give the President good or excellent marks for handling the economy while 43% say he is doing a poor job. Those are by far his lowest ratings yet on the economy.

Reseting History

Solidarity union leader, Lech Walesa's tribute to Ronald Reagan after his passing:

When talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. We in Poland took him so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty. This can't be said often enough by people who lived under oppression for half a century, until communism fell in 1989.

Barack Obama's reseting Cold War history in yesterday's speech in Moscow:

[W]ithin a few short years, the world as it was ceased to be. Make no mistake: this change did not come from any one nation alone. The Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years, and because the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful.

Apparently, the Soviet police state was self liberating. Who knew?

Fill In The Caption

Fill in what Medvedev and Obama are thinking in this photo.

My entry:

Medvedev: Useful fool, let go of my hand.

Obama: Remember not to bow. Remember not to bow.

Summertime Blues - Ohio Edition

There is more evidence that the Bush recession has become the Obama recession and voters are not pleased. A new poll of Ohio voters by Quinnipiac University notes that Obama's job approval has completely collapsed from "a 62% job approval rating, with only 31% disapproving. Today, Obama's job approval stands at 49%, with 44% disapproving - a twenty-five point net drop in just eight weeks." The collapse in Obama job approval not coincidentally corresponds with Ohio's unemployment rate breaking 10%.

Up to this point, only Rasmussen's polling of likely voters has shown Obama's summertime blues, while Obama maintained his popularity in polling including those who do not vote. The Quinnipiac polling of a registered voters suggests that Obama's popularity is now falling among those who are registered, but do not vote.

UPDATE ONE: Speaking of Rasmussen, Obama hit a new low with likely voters yesterday, with 3% more strongly disapproving than strongly approving of his job performance. The passion advantage has passed back to the conservatives.


When likely voters who only somewhat approve or disapprove or don't know what to think of the President's job performance are thrown in, Obama is barely breaking even at 52% to 48%. In less than 6 months, Mr. Obama has frittered away his political capital and completely polarized the nation. The GOP will have to work extra hard to screw up the 2010 election.

In the meantime, the question is whether conservatives can limit the damage being inflicted on the country by this man by stopping the carbon cap and tax and public option health care nationalization proposals.