News this week is not good for the carpet chewers. Democrat incumbents in handily won Obama areas are not running for re-election. The heart can be weak when the road is long and looks like a loss anyway. The lower The One goes, the grimmer Reid’s and Pelosi’s prospects get. (In fact, there’s been virtually no bounce from PelosiCare’s passage in the House.) In fact, ObamaCare itself is now so unpopular that Obama’s ratings, flaccid though they are, are actually helping to boost support for the bill.
What with the Democrat gold standard of polling, Gallup, finally giving up the ghost and admitting, like all the other poll services, that Obama is below 50% in approval ratings. With 53% of independents and 61% of whites disapproving of the Presidents agenda and handling of his duties, it isn’t hard to discern what’s going on. With those kinds of numbers, politician are the first ones to watch for acts of self preservation. Like the mid-range furniture stores are the ones to watch for signs of coming economic decline. The little signs are all there.
Governor Jim Doyle, Wisconsin, is the first Democrat to win re-election in this state in a generation and would have been the first politician to win a third term in a long time. Unemployment hovers around 9%, his poll numbers are in the 40’s and he’s raised taxes and fees. In all, a tough road and not one wants to conclude a political career with. Keep those numbers in mind. You’ll see them in many states in the upcoming election. Since Obama has admitted he owns the state of the economy, it will be Democrats who will take the blows.
Rep Dennis Moore, Kansas, is a cowardly Democrat who would not meet his constituents in Townhalls, claims he has gotten threats because of his stand on health care and is being run out of town because of his votes. Kansas seems to be getting its rationality back.
State Rep. Kino Flores, Texas, is a corrupt Democrat indicted on several counts. what else is new for Democrats?
Well! Looks like a pattern, that’s for sure. A governor, and two Congressmen, not seeking re-election next year. I guess I will pack it in for a decade or two, check into some progressive hermitage and re-read my Foucalt. Laterz…
Those look like people dressing up as rats dumping tea overboard.
Vern let me know if you find a good progressive hermitage, I may have to join you.
Terry you forgot, to let everyone know despite how much the numbers have fallen for democrats and it is the economy. that the Republican approval numbers continue to be in most cases below 30% and that the number of people who clam to be Republicans are at historic lows.
If there was another choice both of our parties might be in trouble.
Well, Jim, I don’t concern myself with Republicans. You know better than most that they left me a decade ago. Most importantly, I don’t feel like I have to concern myself with Republicans because I want government to have the least to do with my life as possible and if they behaved like Republicans thats exactly what would happen. Out of sight, out of mind, as it were.
Now, since Democrats are so in your face about all the things they want to do in my life, I do pay attention to that.
“Now, since Democrats are so in your face about all the things they want to do in my life, I do pay attention to that.”
I’m starting to like you Terry. What’s your current political standing, Independent, Libertarian…???
Libertarian.
I am the National Libertarian columnist for examiner.com
http://www.examiner.com/x-19821-Libertarian-Examiner
And thanks Lam. If I am contentious here, it has a reason. Readership, readership, readership.
Egads! Crowley’s gone national! I can hear the liberal lamentations…
Terry, I understanding where you’re coming from although I have the opposite approach. I don’t care for the Democrats but I often criticize the Republicans because of the Bush/Cheney/Paulson/Fox in your face approach.
I checked out the examiner. Is that a picture of you or Jack Nicholson?
Egads! Crowley’s gone national! I can hear the liberal lamentations…
Oh, sweet Jesus. Does this mean “coffee filters”, “carpet chewers,” and “heavy breathers” are going to now be national Libertarian catchphrases?
Does it mean Libertarians believe that Obama’s reason for bowing toward the Emperor of Japan was to show how embarrassed he is of his country? (I had thought that was just a phony GOP BS line.)
Does it mean Libertarians are now going to consider George W Bush “one of our greatest Presidents,” as Crowley proclaimed in his maiden post here?
The heart grows sick and mourns for the fledgeling Libs. We don’t need another batsh*t crazy party in this country, we already have one!
(there, vented. Congrats Brother Terry.)
Vern, you made me laugh til I hurt. Yes, that was true. I didnt say “I” would believe that, but yes, I would reiterate: over time, the things we think of as important and critical will one day not be viewed so. The dramatic international changes Bush wrought will have consequences for ages and, I believe, eventually be viewed as positives. Not next decade, but eventually. And the recession will eventually be viewed as a distant one, with all the recessions to come.
Lam,
I think I look more like Tom Arnold, but the Jack comment is always funny…
OK, enough being nice. ICK.
Lam – I ALSO said that about Terry – a young jack nicholson b/c of the cool factor glasses enhancing the look.
And as far as nice goes, I guess I shouldn’t mention that Terry regularly helps me out with posting stuff around here, despite my being, according to the Grateone, “commi red” 😉