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Today in Washington – July 14, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  July 14th, 2010 at 11:00 AM  | 

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Thank you President Obama.  We couldn’t have done it without you.  The Conservative movement is back and strong as ever.  Liberals and Progressives are in tears.  Keep up the good work, Mr. President. More on this issue below the fold.

The House will vote on H.R. 1722, the Telework Improvements Act, and 6 suspension bills.  The Senate is scheduled to continue work on H.R. 5297, TARP, Jr., and may schedule a vote on the War Supplemental.  House and Senate Committees will commence a series of hearings on appropriations bills.

The big news today in Washington is the growing evidence that President Obama’s unpopular policies are becoming a serious problem for liberals in Congress.  The bottom is dropping out of the President and his party’s poll numbers.  Liberals seem shocked and unable to respond to simple questions explaining the tanking numbers.  This Sunday, the President’s Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked if his party would lose the House and he said yes.  This response has caused anger and panic among the left. 

Politico reports:

Republicans are seizing on White House press secretary Robert Gibbs’s admission Sunday that Democrats could lose their House majority to send an unambiguous message to Washington’s lobbyist community: The train is leaving the station, and it’s time to get on board.  For months, GOP officials have been making the case to donors and anybody else who will listen that they have a real chance to capture the 39 seats needed to reclaim the House.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was angry and, according to Roll Call, she said of Gibbs admission that Democrats will lose the House and Pelosi will not be Speaker anymore:

I don’t appreciate it. I don’t know who this guy is. I’ve never met him before. And he’s saying that we’re going to lose the House.

Liberals are scared.  They don’t know what to do.  Gibbs is using the talking point that Democrats in the House and Senate need to finish the Obama Agenda, because they are all going to be unemployed real soon.  Pelosi and others who are relying on the President and his staff to continue to argue that the President’s policies will help Americans after the election are losing faith in this President and losing their jobs.

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post writes “it would be accurate to say that Democrats are in a screaming panic about losing control of the House in November.”  Milbank paraphrased House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD):

He thought it “unfortunate” that voters have not come to appreciate all the good things in the Democrats’ economic stimulus legislation. He said the Democrats “regrettably” could not pass a budget with a target for deficit reduction. And he said the Democrats have a “very difficult” political argument to present to voters before November’s elections.

Hoyer and Pelosi don’t know what to say.  How do you explain away the President’s Stimulus plan the merely stimulated unemployment to almost 10%.  How to they justify Congress and President’s refusal to cut any federal spending as the federal debt breached $13 trillion.  

President Obama has done something extraordinary.  He has lead liberals in Congress into the political abyss.  Real Clear Politics has the President’s approval rating at 47.1%.  Compare that to his January 2010 of 49%, July 2009 of 59%, and February 2009 of 65.5% as evidence of a free fall.  

Thank you Mr. President, we could not have done this without you.

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  • 77redcounties

    you made my day. Now that I feel good for a change I will read no more news for the rest of the day. I need a vacation from the ups and downs of the media crush.

    Thanks again

    • Brian Darling

      Thanks for reading the piece. More to come in the next few weeks. Boy it is great to be an American at a time when the Conservative movement is blossoming and the Progressive movement is crashing. I love that the left is scrambling for spin to explain how they are going to lose the House and maybe the Senate after only 2 years of Hope and Change.

  • jimmyp

    Ronald Reagan.

    January 1983: 35% approval according to gallup.
    down from his personal high of 68% in May 1981.

    • audax

      Jan ’83 was the first month of the year that Reagans FABULOUSLY FANTASTIC economic policy’s came into play leading to his HUGE LANDLIDE in Nov of ’84. Those economic policies were lower taxes, less regulation and government, fostering economic growth. I remember my first mortgage under Jimmy 0 (10% interest), double digit inflation, double digit un-employment, etc. Reagan had a LOT to overcome and an unfriendly Congress to boot!

      I don’t see the 0′s economic policies fostering the dynamics that lead to economic growth like we saw under Reagan….so don’t expect 0 to “bounce back” in the polls like Reagan did and win a landslide in the next election. Expect higher actual un-employment and under employment, higher taxes, more regulation, higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher energy prices and or shortages, more government control of private property and businesses and NO economic growth.

      No jimmyp that is a bad example.

    • Scope

      you’re boy pres. will ever go back up in the polls is if he demands that all of his progressively pushed policies be repealed at once. That ain’t likely. In fact he/they are still doing additional destruction to the economy and freedom for Americans.

      I do believe that using RR in any demeaning way, especially in a faulty way, tells one a little something about who you are.

      • audax
    • audax

      was HATED by the main stream media at the time and no ALTERNATIVE media to speak of unless you read National Review, Human Events, The American Spectator, The Orange County Register or the Wall StreetJournal editorial page, that was the extent of the alternative media in 1983, no internet ,no blogs, noconservative talk radio, no Fox New,s just a handful of small publications. The media were slamming Reagan daily. I’m surprised he was at 35%.

      0 has the had the main stream media so far up his posterior all it can breath is his gas. If he was getting the same negative press as Reagan then 0 would be below 35%….LMAO!

      • Scope

        n/t

  • Scope

    uplifting and promising article. Speaking of the Progressive meltdown, the Kirsten Powers incoherence against the charging forward Meghan Kelley is yet another example. The lefties have been taken up so high with gaining control of the presidency, both houses, the majority of the media, and, that means they have that much farther to fall. Some little cracks were already starting to appear in the lefty’s media ranks, and, now those cracks are beginning to widen. Some of those biggest shills for the O are now writing in contempt of his policies, such as Zuckerman. Carville grilled O’s butt over the oil spill inaction. I don’t care how complicit they have been in the propaganda campaign to put the O on a pedestal, and, hide his ulterior motives. As long as they become instrumental in taking him off his pedestal, and sending him back to Chicago or Indonesia for that matter, I will accept their assistance.

    It is becoming more and more useless to try to figure out if O is incompetent, or if he and his handlers are following a plan. Either way, he and his Progressives have destroyed the Democrat Party for decades. They, including the first lady, and the Attorney General have sent racial relations back at least 50 years, all for no more reason than politics and power. They have no care about Civil Rights, and, everyone having the same opportunities for prosperity.

    Yes, thank you President Obama for radicalizing the entire federal government in less than 2 years. You saved us from the slower boil we would have been doing with McCain.

  • Swamp_Yankee
    • audax

      http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/07/newark_bomb_squad_investigates.html