By Ryan Riell
With President Obama’s first State of the Union address coming up tomorrow, it will be interesting to see if he only listened to what the American public has been saying since July or whether he truly heard what they said.
As little as 3 months ago, if you would have asked anyone, to include Senator-Elect Scott Brown, if a Republican candidate had much of a chance of winning the Senate seat that was held by the late Ted Kennedy, they would have chuckled and said no.
Fast forward to January 19, 2010… Scott Brown, the Republican candidate won a decisive victory, in spite of the Democratic machine in Massachusetts and President Obama making a late trip to campaign for the Democratic candidate. For those of you that haven’t followed politics- Brown’s victory is the equivalent of the Jamaican bobsled team winning a gold medal in the Winter Olympics.
President Obama has the lowest approval rating of any president in modern history at the end of his first year. Here is a graphic that I pulled off www.RasmussenReports.com that illustrates that point. If you look at the crossover point, it was approximately July, when health care became the topic. Do you remember the town hall meetings that became so hostile... that correlates nicely to the graph.
There is a long list of reasons the majority of Americans (53%)1 disapprove of the job President Obama is doing.
Some of the main reasons for his high disapproval ratings are:
• Increased spending (TARP and stimulus bill)
• Auto bailouts
• Bank bailouts
• Health Care
• Exempting the unions from the “Cadillac” tax on health care
• The $300 million Louisiana purchase of Senator Landrieu
• The deal with Nebraska and Senator Nelson, sticking the rest of the country with the Medicare bill for Nebraska
• The long and distinguished list of socialists, communists, progressives and admirer’s of Mao Zedung who murdered 50-70 MILLION people.
• The steady increase of the National debt
• Cap and Trade
In 1995, Bill Clinton, who had just lost control of the House, figured out that he better move to the center if he had any dreams of winning the Presidency in 1996, which is exactly what he did.
I actually feel bad for the President, he’s stuck between a rock and a hard place. The “rock” is the far left of his party, which is livid that he hasn’t accomplished anything on their agenda in the first year, especially with a Democratically controlled Congress. They want a purely government run healthcare system and the Cap and Trade bill to be passed in addition to the absolute redistribution of American wealth. Do a simple YouTube search for Andy Stern, Van Jones, Anita Dunn, John Holdren, Valeri Jarret, Cass Sunstein, Ezekiel Emanuel or Mark Lloyd to see the full extent of their agenda. Remember, President Obama said “judge me by the people with whom I surround myself.” If you are not familiar with these high-level advisors and czars, you better get smart fast... it paints a VERY interesting picture of the “hope” and “change” that this country voted for.
The “hard place” is the more moderate members of the Democratic party who don’t want to see Europe-light invade the USA. If he tries to satisfy the far-left of the Democratic party, he is dooming himself and the party to a slaughter in November 2010 and very possibly in 2012, granted the American public tends to have a very short memory. If he tries to govern from the middle, he will enrage the far left, which will attack him and his campaign funding by reducing the amount of money donated by the unions and other special interest groups.
All indications from the Obama White House are that they are going to proceed with their radical progressive agenda. It will be interesting to see if President Obama will read the writing on the wall from last week, or if he’ll plow forward with the destruction of the Democratic party.
References:
1. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/obama_approval_index_history
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