By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
It's not stunning news. But it's also not a positive sign that two new polls Thursday showed President Barack Obama's popularity is tanking.
That doesn't bode well for Obama as he gets ready to arm-wrestle with Congress in the next few months on needed health care reform and a meaningful cap-and-trade bill to reduce pollution.
As with most presidents, Obama entered office with strong approval ratings.
But they have slipped as the economy has continued to stay grim, and as Obama has pursued several expensive programs such as health care reform.
The new polls:
-- A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey said 56 percent of respondents approve of Obama's job in office, down from 61 percent in June.
His biggest loss, CNN reported, was with white men; fewer than half now support the job he's doing.
-- A Quinnipiac University survey showed 50 percent of respondents approve of Obama's job in office, down from 57 percent in June.
The polls indicate that Americans continue to be worried about the economy, that Republicans aren't seen as being any better when it comes to leading the country out of its current mess, and that many people are concerned Obama and the Democratic majorities in Congress are taking on too many costly programs.
It will take some victories on a couple of important issues for Obama's popularity to go up again.
And, of course, if the economy starts to improve more dramatically, he would get a bounce.
But if neither happen, the president who thrilled the nation in January could face a very chilly winter of 2009.
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سوق المرأة مستعمل فلل للبيع ارض للبيع سوق فله للبيع شقه للبيع تأشيره للبيع تأشيرات للبيع فيز للبيع مخططات لكزس كامري سياره للبيع سيارات للبيع فورد كورولا جيب لوحه مميزه لوحات مميزه للبيع رقم مميز رقم مميز للبيع ارقام مميزه لوحه للبيع ارقام للبيع جوالات للبيع جوال للبيع نوكيا سوا الرقم الخاص رقم شحن رقم عام ارقام شحن ارقام عامه عطور مكياج ادوات تجميل مجوهرات العاب الزوجيه كمبيوتر للبيع لاب توب للبيع موقع للبيع ايميل للبيع محمول للبيع مودم للبيع كونكت للبيع وظيفه وظائف توظيف فرص وظيفيه
Yael - do you have insurance ?
and would you plan on keeping it ?
Just checking ...
I have insurance and plan on keeping it too.
Guess we are part of the lucky folks that do.
Universal health care is the only civilized way to go
The comments below against the Obama initiative to reform health care only reveal the boneheaded stupidity of people who resent change and are too ignorant and lazy to want to understand its benefit. Among the lies they willingly believe are:
1) that they will lose choice. WRONG! Both Obama and Congress, who are steering this legislation, have said repeatedly that if one is happy with what he or she has, then, fine, they may keep. And at no additional cost and most probably less cost.
2) that the public option will hurt the insurance industry and drive prices up. WRONG! It will do precisely the opposite. If the insurance industry controls the health-care costs levied on the sick and dying, then it only makes sense that a single-payer, public option be available to keep the industry honest. If not, then why not hand the keys to the blood bank over to Dracula? My mother died last year and Medicare, a public option that has worked splendidly, took care of the costs, along with the supplemental coverage that my sister and I provided for her. All we received after her passing was a statement of charges taken care of for our records. There was a $0 balance due--for which, in our time of loss, we were profoundly grateful.
3) the government should stay out of health care. THIS IS THE MOST INANE ARGUMENT OF ALL! What the hell do you think Medicare (for seniors) is? And it has been comparatively successful for the last forty- plus years! It's the working and middle classes who can't afford insurance that are gouged by an insurance industry that leeches off of them. After all, what is it that the insurance industry usefully provides? (You're sick and the doctor or health-care provider administer your care. It's a pretty simple deal. In this context, why should anyone profit off of your misery?)
That idiotic conservatives, who are too stupid to insist on the same kind of health care their Republican congresspeople receive, should resent our democratically-elected government not only makes them un-American, it makes them disgruntled, dangerous lunatics.
Move along, nothing to see here, go 'wan to yer homes, people
Friday, August 07, 2009
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 34% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -4. The level of Strong Approval is the highest since late June and the overall Index rating is the President’s best in a month (see trends).
Obama's popularity TANKING? TANKING???
Bush's popularity finally TANKED. And that took awhile. A journalist should have a better command of the language than to used such a word. CNN's playing gradecard, giving Obama a C-. Which I doubt unless there are more racists than I think and Republicans are more effective and putting our troubles off of their own backs onto the new presidents.
It's early. Lots of better words to use at this point. Faltering, declining, slipping, wavering. Not TANKED. you must be wishful thinking.
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Radmod - turn on the time machine
back to say 2004 - insert the word Democrat in place of Republican, and you still have a true statement.
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The big difference between 2004 and 2009 is that in 2004, the Democrats in congress had the numbers to stop things (at least in the Senate).
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Why do you complain about the Republicans when, in Congress, they can't stop anything?
No
The point is NOT so that I can choose. If I were allowed to choose I would keep the insurance I have right now.
Acording to HR 3200, the copy released from the House Ways and Means Committee, available on the web, explicitly states that somewhere in a period between immediately and five years I (and every other American) MUST be enrolled in a "government approved plan", and be able to prove it when I file my taxes or a percentage of my income above and beyond the current overly punative income taxes, will be stolen from me. There will be numerous mandates, yet to be defined, of what those 'government approved plans' cover, much of which are things I do not want, and certainly dont' want to pay for. There is an intent to drive private insurers out of business by using price fixing, hidden rationing methods and other under the table illegal in the private sector tricks, to make public plan prices artificially low (until those private insurers are out of business - then the public plan prices will HAVE to increase exponentially) and force people into the 'public plan'.
I will NOT be able to make a FREE choice about my health care. The intent is to take away every American's choice. Obama and increasing numbers of Democrat members of Congress have openly stated that their GOAL is socialized medicine. THEY DO NOT INTEND TO LET US CHOOSE. Any statements to the contrary are outright intentional lies.
Unless Teddy Kennedy, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and the rest of congress go first and go on the public plan and agree to use ONLY public plan approved treatments for themselves and their families, with the penalty for going outside the plan for so much as an unapproved asprin being immediate loss of office and permanat ban from further public office or employment by the federal government, with potential jail time for extreme cases (Teddy running off to Indonesia or Thailand for more cancer treatments not allowed by the plan, or Barry not accepting that HIS kid should get a tylenol instead of chemo).
Cap and Control The second
Cap and Control
The second greatest economic power held by government is to tax; the greatest is to selectively un-tax. With this seemingly innocuous power, Congress elicits favors from all those who are willing to pay the tab. To radically expand this power is the central goal of Cap and Trade legislation.
For months my friends and most of the pundits I follow thought there was so little chance of Cap and Trade legislation passing, they ignored the issue and, at best, humored me when I pointed to it as the greatest economic threat facing the U.S. economy today. However, with it now apparent there is real threat of this legislation passing the House; thinking people are beginning to take notice. Unfortunately, it may be too late.
Because Congress is not encumbered by truth in advertising laws, the Cap and Trade bill, which even some Democrats call "Cap and Tax," has been named the "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009" or, as its called inside the beltway, "ACES." This title accompanies two House Resolutions, H.R. 2454 and H.R. 2998. When writing your Senators, I suggest referencing the full title (American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009) and both of the bill numbers noted above. This is a point in time when being abundantly clear is of the utmost importance.
The important thing to understand about ACES is that it is not at all designed to do what its name suggests; as a matter of fact, when viewed on a global basis, it may have just the opposite effect; there are strong arguments to be made supporting the contention that ACES would cause higher global CO2 emissions and significantly detract from our national security even beyond the nearly unbeatable fact it would be ruinous for our economy.
There are many easy, painless and even economically positive ways we can encourage reduced CO2 emissions and stimulate the development of new technologies that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil, which is what is implied by the "security" part of the title. However, this bill will not accomplish these goals. What this bill will accomplish is a mechanism for massive corruption, the strengthening of the power of congressional incumbency, the establishment of a full employment act for lawyers and the debasement of the aggregate U.S. economy. Yes, those are bold words, but I can back them up.
If this bill passes, Congress will have the power to decide who gets to release CO2, how much they will get to release, how much they will have to pay if they want to release more than the congressional dictated allocation and who they must pay. Because nearly everything we do from raising cattle to growing crops to powering our electric grid to manufacturing everything we eat, wear and use emits CO2, the implication is Congress will have absolute control over not just our economy as a whole, but also in naming the winners and losers.
Make no mistake; what our Congress is trying to do is levy a huge carbon tax that will make virtually everything we do today more expensive and then give itself the ultimate and nearly infinite power to selectively un-tax without the annoying encumbrances or inconveniences of due process. Congress knows that if it is successful in this ruse, it will have industry cowering at its feet to beg for just one more bowl of CO2 credits and, with that, all the campaign contributions and perks you would expect to change hands when favors are denominated in tens or, in some cases, hundreds of billions of dollars.
When you write your Senators, which is something you can easily do today through the House web site, www.senate.gov, you should ask for two things. First, that they sign an affidavit stating they have read and understand the contents of both H.R. 2454 and H.R. 2998 and, second, to not only vote against the Senate version of ACES, but also mount a campaign to influence others to vote against them as well.
The bottom line here is that there is nothing that threatens our economy, our freedom, our state's rights, our class mobility and our security more than what is being deceitfully presented as the "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009." The power it will grant Congress is absolute and its wording is so duplicitous that it will clog our courts for years, which will do nothing more than redirect what money is left in our economy to lawyers. We need legislation designed to give us more scientists, engineers and doctors, not more lawyers and avenues to corrupt our political process more than it already is.
The only way not to dislpease is to do nothing..
or so it seems to be the strategy of the republican party. In the midst of the worst economic recessions in decades, when millions of Americans are unemployed, when millions are losing their homes, when millions have lost their life's savings, the republican party strategy has been to sit on their thumbs and complain about what others are trying to do to remedy the situation.
They whine about the Obama economic plan but offer no alternative. They shout down and intimidate other citizens at town hall health care meetings but have no plan of their own. They've presided over decades of deficits but have a sudden distaste for them.
People will remember that, when they needed help in their darkest hour, they got none from the republican party.
If we don't protect the freedom of speech how will we know who the a$$#@les are?
Why is that?
The whole point of the plan is that you can choose.