Archive for September 1st, 2009
Could Dr. Utopia really be down to the 30s in approval by Christmas?
A friend of ours sent us this article from RedState just now, and we had a good discussion about it. It’s commentary on David Brooks’ column in the NY Times, where Brooks argues Democrats really and truly are committing political suicide, since the White House and Congress believe America is The Huffington Post. Brooks says Democrats will try to ram Deathcare through using every trick in the book, even if only 35% of the country identifies as liberal and supports this. Brooks predicts a massive backlash against the White House and Congress in 2010.
One of the comments on this RedState article says Dr. Utopia will be down to the 30s in approval ratings by Christmas, and that September is going to be a brutal month for liberals.
We feel Dr. Utopia will be in the very low 40s by Halloween, definitely…but the REALLY brutal month for him is going to be the four weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Why?
(1) People out spending money will realize how little money they have left to spend…and they will wonder where their hope and change are
(2) During the holiday season, people will gather together. There will be discussions…things will get into politics. Everyone will wonder where their hope and change are. Those who didn’t vote for Dr. Utopia will get to say “Told YA SO!”
(3) Heating bills will start rising soon…and will be BRUTAL in November-December…it’s going to be a bad, bad winter, folks. If you aren’t saving up for the gas bill now, you need to start today. We’re expecting our bill to rise to the $200-300 range for Buzzquarters this winter. We have friends with large homes who pay $800 a month for heating during the holidays. This is going to have an impact on the public’s perception of how things are going in this country. It always does…but this year, it’s going to be colder than we’ve experienced in a while…and people will mock the Democrats’ for all of that talk about global warming. Dr. Utopia’s going to take a big hit on all of this.
We have no idea how low Dr. Utopia’s numbers will go, but also can’t see how he breaks this trend and pumps the public’s opinon back up. It doesn’t seem like he can avert a real disaster by Christmas.
What think you?
GHOULS. Liberal Democrats admit Ted Kennedy's death "is going to help us"
This is disgusting and shameful, even for Harry Reid, a man who called American citizens “stinky” and waxed poetic about how happy he was the Capitol Visitors Center was finished so he no longer had to “smell the tourists” every summer.
Why the people of Nevada keep re-electing this buffoon is beyond us.
But, today Reid crossed another line — where he freely admitted liberal Democrats will use Ted Kennedy’s death to mount a new effort to pass Deathcare, and that Kennedy dying “is going to help us”.
Wow. Just when we think someone we have zero respect for couldn’t possibly get any worse, Harry Reid actually is within striking distance of beating out Claire McCaskill as the absolute worst person in the US Senate.
APPALLING.
If there is any justice in this world, this kind of nonsense from Reid will blow up in the libs’ faces, BIG TIME.
Tuesday Open Thread, September 1st 2009
What’s on your mind this Tuesday?
Check out Redstate for a disturbing report on one of the things Dr. Utopia snuck through in July: requirements for any federal construction project over $25 million to exclusively use union construction workers. This will block 8 out of every 10 workers from having jobs, will increase the costs of construction projects by 10-25%, and will funnel more money into labor unions so they can in turn donate more to Dr. Utopia’s re-election campaign come 2012. And with Ray LaHood as Secretary of Transportation, we shudder to think where, exactly, he’ll funnel those contracts and large federal checks to…considering his track record, and the track record of this state.
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Who does Eliot Spitzer think he is — a Kennedy? This disgusting fool is dumber than Mark Sanford, thinking he still has a career in politics ahead of him. Spitzer wants to run for Kirsten Gillibrand’s Senate seat (previously held by Hillary Clinton). We hope voters in New York quite loudly give him a much-needed reality check. The problem we have with Spitzer is not that he had a sex scandal…but that he’s a lawyer, who swore to uphold the law, and was a governor, who swore to uphold the law, but who believed the laws didn’t apply to him because he was special. That’s the same problem we have with the Kennedy family…that laws don’t apply to them. There are too many aristocrats like this in our government…let Spitzer become a lobbyist or find work somewhere else in the private sector. Get off the stage, and take Mark Sanford with you, please.
