Quinnipiac Poll: Majority Of Americans Say Obama Incompetent, Dishonest, Untrustworthy Steve Watson Infowars.com January 23, 2014 More Americans believe president is paying no attention to his own administration’s actions A new national poll compiled by the much respected Quinnipiac University finds that a majority of Americans view the Obama administration as incompetent, while more Americans also believe the president himself is not honest or trustworthy. Less than a week ahead of the State Of Union Address, the survey shows that 53 percent of voters see the current administration as “not competent in running the government,” while only 42 percent believe Obama’s White House is competent.
On Obama himself, only 46 percent believe him to be honest and trustworthy, while 49 percent do not. A further 47 percent say he is not paying attention to what his administration is doing, while fewer Americans, 45 percent, believe he is paying attention.
The president’s overall job approval rating continues to occupy a near historic low, falling to a negative 40 – 54 percent, down 1 point from January 8. On separate issues, Obama fares even worse in the eyes of the American public, receiving negative ratings on four out of five key issues. On the economy he scores a negative 39 – 56 percent, while on healthcare Obama receives a negative 36 – 59 percent. Those two issues were named as the top priorities by voters in the survey, with a total of 77 percent stating that the economy is “not so good” or “poor”. “‘It’s the economy, Mr. President,’ say dissatisfied American voters who are not yet willing to give President Barack Obama a thumbs up on his presidency,” said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. On Obamacare, just 38 percent say they approve of the new law, with 56 percent opposed. That figure represents yet another decline in support. Since the Affordable Health Care Act was launched in October, already dwindling support has fallen by 7 percentage points, Quinnipiac finds. “If — and it’s a big “if” — the president can convince the American people that the economy is getting better and that Obamacare will be good for them, it will go a long way to rebuilding his sagging job approval ratings.” Malloy noted. The poll also found that only 1 percent of Americans feel that gun control is an important issue that should be pursued by the administration.
Overall, 65 percent of Americans said that they were either “somewhat dissatisfied” or “very dissatisfied” with the way things are going in the nation today.
Schumer To Poison Tea Party Alexander Bolton The Hill January 23, 2014 Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the Senate Democrats’ political guru, has a plan to poison the Tea Party by driving a wedge between its rich funders and its blue-collar rank and file. Schumer, one of the Democrats’ most influential strategists, will argue in a major speech on Thursday that super-wealthy Tea Party donors have hijacked the grassroots movement that grew out of the economic anxiety of the 2008 financial collapse to suit their pro-big-business agenda. He’ll lay out a blueprint for how Democrats could exploit what, he argues, is a weakness in the opposition in the address at the Center for American Progress, a pro-Democratic think tank founded by John Podesta, who just joined President Obama’s inner circle at the White House. "There is a glaring weakness, one very weak link in the Tea Party’s armor, which is an inherent contradiction within the Tea Party that, I believe can be exposed to greatly weaken their hold on the policy debate," Schumer will say, according to excerpts of his remarks. "The fundamental weakness in the Tea Party machine is the stark difference between what the leaders of the Tea Party elite, plutocrats like the Koch Brothers want and what the average grassroots Tea Party follower wants," he will say. Schumer will argue Democrats must defend popular government programs, such as extended unemployment benefits and student loan subsidies, to persuade Tea Party voters they could benefit from federal programs. "The average Tea Party member, like the average American, likes government run Medicare, likes government built highways and water and sewer lines, likes government support for education, both higher and lower," he will say. Schumer contends powerful Tea Party patrons, such as David H. Koch and Charles Koch, have directed the anger of many independent voters toward the government to ease federal regulation of their multibillion-dollar industries. “Wealthy Tea Party leaders have convinced Tea Party rank and file and many other Americans that antigovernment ideology is the answer to their problems — but many Tea Partiers and sympathizers support government programs — Democrats must exploit the difference,” Schumer’s office said in a statement announcing the speech. Schumer also plans to touch on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that gave outside groups more leeway to spend on elections. He supports legislation that would force outside political groups to identify major donors. Tea Party representatives scoffed at Schumer’s plans, saying they’d heard similar arguments for years.
“Liberals have been trying to claim the Tea Party is something other than what it is from the beginning,” said Sal Russo, co-founder and chief strategist of Tea Party Express, a major Tea Party political action committee. “We heard everything from Karl Rove’s orchestrating it to the Koch brothers are doing it or oil companies.” Russo said the Tea Party is an indigenous grassroots reaction to “exactly what Chuck Schumer is,” and the movement resulted from “an oppressive intrusion into the people’s lives by the federal government, runaway spending and an unsustainable national debt.” Schumer, however, thinks Tea Party leaders are at a vulnerable crossroads because their unifying ideology centered on the federal deficit has become outdated. A nationwide poll by Quinnipiac University earlier this month showed 39 percent of respondents said the economy should be President Obama’s top priority, while 23 percent said it should be the federal budget deficit. A CBS News poll from mid-November showed 31 percent of adults nationwide rated the economy and jobs as the most important problem facing the country, while only 7 percent pointed to the budget. Democratic pollsters say a majority of Tea Party voters support increasing the minimum wage, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will address later this year. “What the senator is getting at is, they’re very populist, and they are hard-pressed economically,” Democratic pollster Celinda Lake said of Tea Party voters. “So I think there is an interesting point right now where Democrats can lay out an economic agenda that really pressures the Tea Party leaders.” Lake said Schumer and other Democratic leaders would be hard pressed to convince Tea Party voters to embrace big government, but they could push a populist economic agenda that resonates with them. “A majority of Tea Partiers do support raising the minimum wage. They like to stand up for the little guy,” she said. Democrats also believe a majority of Tea Party voters support extending unemployment benefits, which Senate Republicans blocked before Congress left town last week. Schumer also wants state officials to mull switching to a “jungle primary” system similar to what was adopted in California, in which the two highest recipients of votes in a nonpartisan primary advance to the general election. He believes this would reduce the influence of conservative ideologues in low-turnout races. The election of some hard-core conservatives has made it more difficult for Senate Democrats in Washington. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), for example, helped trigger the October government shutdown. He defeated former Sen. Bob Bennett, who had been more willing to cross the aisle, in a GOP contest But the election of conservatives has also worked to the advantage of Senate Democrats by making it more difficult for Republicans to win Senate races. Democrats will look to keep the pressure on after Schumer’s speech with a national press conference call on Friday focused on extending unemployment benefits. And in another sign of better coordination between congressional Democrats and Obama’s team, Organizing for Action, a grassroots action group created to support the president’s agenda, has helped coordinate events around the country this week to pressure GOP lawmakers to support extended unemployment benefits. Outside groups such as the AFL-CIO, SEIU, AFSCME and MomsRising have also participated in the
coalition targeting GOP lawmakers. They helped organize events targeting Sens. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) on Wednesday, Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) on Thursday and Sen. Dean Heller (RNev.) on Friday, according to Democratic aides briefed on their activities.
A Message to Obama: “Being Black Isn’t Your Problem… The Problem Is You Suck!” *Video* Mac Slavo SHTFplan.com January 23, 2014
One of our favorite commentators on politics and global happenings is back with his latest diatribe, and as is usually the case, he’s right on target. Bob weighs in: Stop using the color of your skin as an excuse for your failures. Being black isn’t your problem. The problem is you suck, bro. You friggin’ suck. Obama's New Excuse - "I'm Black"... VIDEO BELOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwxp61wDM5Q This week Bob at Drinking with Bob takes aim at President Obama’s recent comments in an interview with The New Yorker in which he made the claim that one of the main reasons his popularity is sinking is because he is black and some Americans haven’t gotten over that. Here is the excerpt of the interview to which Bob responds in the following video: Obama’s election was one of the great markers in the black freedom struggle. In the electoral realm, ironically, the country may be more racially divided than it has been in a
generation. Obama lost among white voters in 2012 by a margin greater than any victor in American history. The popular opposition to the Administration comes largely from older whites who feel threatened, underemployed, overlooked, and disdained in a globalized economy and in an increasingly diverse country. Obama’s drop in the polls in 2013 was especially grave among white voters. “There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President,” Obama said. “There is a historic connection between some of the arguments that we have politically and the history of race in our country, and sometimes it’s hard to disentangle those issues.” There is no doubt that there are those who dislike Barack Obama because he is black. Likewise, there are plenty of African Americans who dislike white politicians simply because of the color of their skin. Welcome to earth, what else is new? But for President Obama to make this claim is not only disingenuous, but is a complete deflection to steer the American people away from his failures and to pit us against each other by once again throwing out the race card.. Barack Obama became President of the United States because half of the country voted for him. And he knows very well that a large portion of those voters were white. In recent weeks we’ve seen his poll numbers collapse to a 39% approval rating, suggesting that many who supported him during the elections have lost faith. If we are to believe the President, then that 10% drop in approval was a result of the anti-black racists? When they voted for a (half) black man for President it was a “fundamental transformation” for America. What’s troubling is that when those very same people who put him in office disapprove of his performance, President Obama claims they are doing so because of the color of his skin? His complete failure in everything he’s touched – from health care to foreign policy – couldn’t possibly be the reason, right? Previously from Bob (because sometimes one video isn’t enough): “What was Obama Doing at Harvard… Parkin’ Friggin Cars?” Obama is Unqualified to be President... VIDEO BELOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC0XhIAZYk0 Emergency: Obama Has Launched Purge VIDEO BELOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9P-xvoMZHY
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