Well it seems that Barry’s approval rating has now plunged to what is yet another all-time low, as 79 percent of respondents to an Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll said they were less than satisfied with him and the American political system. Now while I’m more than willing to agree with them regarding their opinion of Barry, I’m much more hesitant to agree with them when it comes to being dissatisfied with our political system. The system is working just fine, I think where the problem lies is with their perception of how it’s supposed to work.
According to Democrat pollster Fred Yang of Hart Research, "The American public is telling its elected representatives that the economic distress that a significant proportion of them are feeling is directly their fault." He conducted this most recent poll along with Republican Bill McInturff. Yang added, "The public seems to have moved beyond the plaintive cry of 'feel our pain' to the more angry pronouncement of 'you are causing our pain.'" Personally, I think the public needs to share in some of the blame as they are the ones who elect these people.
That pain has translated into strong feelings among the 1,000 adults polled that their children will not have a better life that they do, that the country is on the wrong track, that America is in a state of decline, that the country is still in recession — and that the nation's economy is not stronger because of unprecedented partisan gridlock in Washington. For there to be any forward progress to made it requires there to be a certain amount of compromise and Democrats have a rather odd way of defining compromise which is accepting nothing less than complete capitulation by their opposition.
Only 40 percent of those polled between Wednesday and Sunday said they approved of Barry's performance in the White House, which the survey reports is an all-time low. That is down from 41 percent in a June survey. But Barry's disapproval rating, 54 percent, matched a previous high, and he got his worst ratings on his handling of foreign policy, 60 percent disapproval to 36 percent approval. That should come as no surprise, look practically anywhere across the globe and you’ll find things much worse off than they were just 5 short years ago.
And much was made in this poll about the fact that the postings were just as bad for Congress, with only 14 percent supporting what legislators are doing on Capitol Hill. The rating marked the seventh-straight time it has been under 15 percent in an NBC-WSJ poll since 2011. But here the American people have no one to blame but themselves. They’re the ones who keep sending the same individuals back to Congress over and over. And yet for some bizarre reason Republicans are viewed less favorably, 19-54 percent, than Democrats, 31-46 percent.
It was in this poll that we had some imbecile by the name of Evan Coley, who happens to be the ripe old age of 22, and who’s from Albermarle, N.C., telling the Journal, "I don't think they're working for the middle class." This guy is said to work in an auto-repair shop. He went on to say, "They're trying to help themselves more than anyone else." Ok, so how stupid is this guy or has he just not been paying even the slightest bit of attention for the last few years. Frankly, to me it sounds like he spends most of his time tuned into CNN or MSNBC.
And then we had a guy by the name Al McCauley, 51, and from Greenboro, N.C., and is someone who is currently unemployed. It was this genius who said, "Both sides need to get their act together. They're not working with each other." Someone really should inform old Al, here, that the Republican House has now sent nearly 300 pieces of legislation over to the Senate, which is controlled by those which I have little doubt that old Al most likely regularly votes for. And there has not been any action taken on any of them.
Even 57 percent of the survey respondents said that they were so bothered by an issue that they'd easily carry a protest sign for at least one day. Here are some examples of the signs:
1. "Impeach Obama," a female Republican from Ohio said.
2. "Republicans and Congress, do your job," said a male Democrat, and obviously an uninformed nitwit, from Kentucky.
3. "Close the borders," added a GOP-leaning female from Massachusetts.
4. "Stop bombing people in Ukraine and Gaza and Israel," said a male, and obviously brain damaged, Democrat from Texas.
5. "Our government needs an overhaul," a female independent from Florida said.
Still, slightly more respondents said that they'd rather have the Republicans in control Congress than the Democrats, which is said to add to the general sense among most pollsters that the GOP is expected to retain the House and could possibly even re-take control of the Senate this fall. Republicans need six seats to win back the upper chamber, but it would be great if they could get all the way to 60. "What we're seeing is a good Republican cycle, but not yet like the wave elections we saw in 2006 and 2010," McInturff told the Journal.
But the bottom line here is that the American people can whine about our politicians and how the government works, or doesn’t work, until the cows come home. But the sad truth is that the direction our country is now headed has far more to with the people than it does with the politicians that they insist upon electing and re-electing. The American people could fix ALL that’s wrong with this country in the very short span of just three elections. But the fact of the matter is that I don’t think they really want to. They would rather just complain about things.
But sadly, until we, the American people come to decide that we wish to once again be a nation of responsible adults and shun the belief possessed by so many that we should continue on our present course of becoming nothing more than a nation of parasites, not much is really going to change. As long as we keep electing those politicians who promise us all manner of government give away, then there will be very little change in our current trajectory. If we truly want to get our country back on track, then we’re going to be required to get our hands a little dirty.
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