Late last night @BreakingReport learned the Twitter account of NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen (@AndersFoghR) had been hacked. This morning it was confirmed by a spokesman at NATO Headquarters.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen twitter account send Direct Messages containing a URL with a “log in” screen to take over yet another account.

Wie die NYT mitteilte, findet hinter den Kulissen ein heftiges Gezerre um zusätzliche Truppen für Afghanistan statt, in das neben den USA besonders der NATO-Generalssekretär, der Däne Anders Fogh Rasmussen und der Britische Premier-Minister Gordon Brown beteiligt seien. Dabei sollen die NATO-Partner jene geschätzen zehntausend zusätzlicher Truppen stellen, welche die Differenz zwischen den realistischen Möglichkeiten der US-Army (etwa 30.000 Mann) und den Anforderungen Stanley McChrystals, des kommandierenden Generals vor Ort, (etwa 40.000 Mann) bilden. Da Sarkozy für Frankreich schon ankündigte hart zu bleiben und seine Truppenstärke nicht zu erhöhen, werden sich deshalb wohl gesteigerte Erwartungen an Deutschland und die Bundeswehr richten. Was Verteidigungsminister Guttenberg dazu so bisher andeutete, schließt Truppenerhöhungen zumindest nicht aus, auch wenn er es so verpackt, dass man erst einmal aufrüsten müsse um eine Situation zu erlangen, die schließlich einen Abzug ermögliche. Ob die heute aufgetretenen Kollateralschäden, die mehr oder weniger freiwilligen Rücktritte des Generalinspekteurs der Bundeswehr, des Vier-Sterne-Generals Schneiderhan und des Staatssekretärs Wichert, diese Strategie behindern oder befördern, dass muss zunächst abgewartet werden. Ich bin ziemlich sicher, dass wir nicht allzu lange warten werden müssen! Guttenberg gilt als Atlantiker und dem neoliberalen Gedankengut nicht abhold. Wenn er jetzt unter dieser Voraussetzung bei der Bundeswehr “alte Köpfe rollen lässt”, dann wird die taktische Verfügbarkeit der Bundeswehr künftig weltweit womöglich geschmeidiger ablaufen, als wir das in der Vergangenheit gewohnt waren. Dies widerum könnte unserer “mächtigsten Frau der Welt” in die strategischen Karten spielen…

After leaving CNN following a fairly successful run as a political commentator, Lou Dobbs has been publicly flirting with the idea of running for public office. Now a new Rasmussen poll states the obvious and says a Presidential bid would siphon off up to 14% of the Republican vote, enough to split the electorate and ensure reelection for President Obama no matter what his popularity has become three years from now.

There’s no doubt that we’re still way early when it comes to handicapping 2012, but there’s little doubt that any center-right candidate could split the opposition vote, much in the same way Ross Perot did in 1992, garnering 18.9% of the vote and allowing Bill Clinton to win with just 43% of the popular vote. Running again in 1996, Perot received 8% of the popular vote, not as significant a vote siphon to Bob Dole (who was himself a fairly weak candidate to field against an incumbent), but still the best showing by a third-party candidate in the last twenty years. In both elections, however, the impact was the same: voters who supported Perot ended up with a winner that was ideologically opposite most of their own positions.

But does the Perot experience now limit a third-party effect? Allahpundit made the point on Monday that in 2012 Republicans would most likely be so desperate to unseat Obama that all but the most extremely alienated would pull the lever for whomever the GOP candidate will be. Democrats did the same thing between 2000 and 2004 when they gave Ralph Nader 2.7% of a close vote, essentially helping George W. Bush, and got more unified the next go-around and gave him only 0.38% of the vote.

I never watched Lou Dobbs that much, and I couldn’t give you much in the way of an opinion of him. I’m sure he’s smart enough to realize he has no shot at winning anything nationally in 2012, which is probably why his spokesman is saying he’ll try to win Robert Menendez’s Senate seat instead. His chances there are probably better, though I’m not yet sure he could even win there. I’ll also say that I’m surprised how closely all the Republican challengers fare against Obama in a two-person match-up, including, yes, the “unelectable” woman who’s supposedly too stupid and too extreme to ever garner wide support on her own, Sarah Palin.

Overall, though, third-party candidates should always evaluated seriously on all counts including their ability to win in a general election. More often than not, third-party candidacies are vanity trips for the office-seeker that leave their supporters feeling momentarily good about their ideological voting purity but leave them electorally defeated. Does that mean we should never consider third-party candidates? Of course not, but we should always be realistic about their chances and what impact they have on the larger two-person race above them.

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How sad.  CNN/Money headline on the CNN website says “Jobless Claims Plummet”.

Even the story headline says the same – “Initial jobless claims fall to 14-month low,” it says followed by the by-line, “Number of initial filers for unemployment insurance falls to 466,000 – lowest since Sept 2008.”

Oh, if any of this information was actually true.

First off – the report was a statistical blip.  The report was issued early due to the shortened week due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

“It seems to be a statistical pop,” said Tim Quinlan, economist at Wells Fargo. “As much as I’d like it to continue, I don’t see claims continuing to fall at this pace.”

CNN reports that continuing claims also fell by 190,000.  But, they acknowledged that the numbers probably reflects mostly people moving to extended state and federal unemployment rolls.

WTF?

Plummet?  That is the word used to describe the drop in initial and ongoing claims.  Millions are out of work and this statistical blip is a “plummet”?

OBAMA POLLING AT HISTORIC LOWS

In a historic first, Obama is polling at the lowest ever for him.  His spread between those that strongly approve versus strongly disapprove is now at -15 for the second straight day. His overall approval is now below 50% consistently.

The health care plans favored by Obama and Democrats has fallen to 38% approval – another dismal showing.

Where are CNN, CBS, PBS, AB(S), NB(S), NPR(BS) and the rest of the BS-ers with this bit of shocking news?

They must all be busy fact checking SNL or Sarah Palin’s book.  Could someone spare a reporter to check into the emails released from the hackers?  I mean – they should investigate the  emails NOT the whistle-blowers who hacked and released the data.

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, présidente del  Partito  socialista europeo, si è congratulato per l’accordo raggiunto dal Consiglio europeo riguardante il posto di Alto rappresentante dell’EU e del presidente del Consiglio, che ha definito “accordo storico per l’equilibrio politico dell’Unione Europea”

Il presidente del PSE Poul Nyrup Rasmussen ha poi cichiarato: « La designazione di  Catherine Ashton è un grande momento per il  PSE oltre che per le donne in Europa. Catherine Ashton è un rappresentante politico estremamente competente, che gode di una stima assoluta e che saprà rinforzare l’influenza collettiva dell’Europa sulla scena internazionale.
Il presidente Rasmussen ha concluso « Il PSE è felice di aver potuto concludere questo accordo con il PPE per garantire l’equilibrio politico e la eguaglianza dei sessi concernenti le alte cariche dell’Unione. Lo svolgimento del negoziato ha dimostrato che la famiglia del PSE ha compiuto gli sforzi necessari e quando si agisce uniti si può fare la differenza.”

Ci dispiace caro Baffettino, ma l’Europa non è l’Italia e li gli inciuci non funzionano.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15. This is the lowest Approval Index rating yet measured for President Obama (see trends).

Fifty-two percent (52%) of Democrats Strongly Approve while 68% of Republicans Strongly Disapprove. Among those not affiliated with either major political party, just 16% Strongly Approve and 51% Strongly Disapprove (see other recent demographic highlights from the tracking poll).

Forty-five percent (45%) want U.S. troops home from Afghanistan either right away or within a year.Forty-three percent (43%) are opposed to such a firm timetable.

Fifty-three percent (53%) of voters worry that the federal government will do too much when it comes to reacting to the nation’s financial problems. That’s up seven points since President Obama took office.

The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates are also available on Twitter and Facebook.

Overall, 45% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. That matches the lowest level of total approval yet measured for this president. Eighty-one percent (81%) of Democrats approve as do 33% of unaffiliated voters. Eighty-three percent (83%) of Republicans disapprove.

Among all voters, 54% now disapprove.

Support for the health care plan proposed by the President and Congressional Democrats has fallen to a new low of 38%. Sixty percent (60%) of voters believe passage of the bill will lead to higher health care costs.

via rasmussenreports.com

Rasmussen – the nation’s most accurate polling organization – says the numbers are crystal clear: America doesn’t want ObamaCare.

Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% now oppose the plan.

Half the survey was conducted before the Senate voted late Saturday to begin debate on its version of the legislation. Support for the plan was slightly lower in the half of the survey conducted after the Senate vote.

Prior to this, support for the plan had never fallen below 41%. Last week, support for the plan was at 47%. Two weeks ago, the effort was supported by 45% of voters.

Intensity remains stronger among those who oppose the push to change the nation’s health care system: 21% Strongly Favor the plan while 43% are Strongly Opposed.

Rasmussen Reports is continuing to track public opinion on the health care plan on a weekly basis. Next week’s Monday morning update will give an indication of whether these numbers reflect a trend of growing opposition or are merely statistical noise.

Only 16% now believe passage of the plan will lead to lower health care costs. Nearly four times as many (60%) believe the plan will increase health care costs. Most (54%) also believe passage of the plan will hurt the quality of care.

As has been the case for months, Democrats favor the plan while Republicans and voters not affiliated with either major party are opposed. The latest numbers show support from 73% of those in the president’s party. The plan is opposed by 83% of Republicans and 70% of unaffiliated voters.

Other recent polling shows that Democrats consider health care reform to be the top priority for the president. Republicans and unaffiliated voters see deficit reduction as most important.

Among the nation’s senior citizens, 34% favor the health care plan and 60% are opposed. A majority of those under 30 favor the plan, but a majority of all other age groups are opposed (Premium Members can see full demographic crosstabs).

Support for health care has declined along with President Obama’s approval ratings. For the first time in the Obama era, the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Approval Index has been in negative double digits for nine straight days.

Despite the decline in support for the health care plan, 50% still say it is at least somewhat likely to become law this year. That figure includes 17% who say passage is Very Likely.

While Senate Democrats this weekend assembled enough votes to begin debate on the plan, many challenges remain. All Republican Senators and several Democrats, for example, have expressed opposition to the so-called “public option.” Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters nationwide say guaranteeing that no one is forced to change their health insurance coverage is a higher priority than giving consumers the choice of a “public option” government-run health insurance company. Most liberal voters say giving people the choice of a “public option” is more important. But most moderates take the opposite view and say guaranteeing that no one is forced to change their health insurance is the top priority.

Overall, 46% favor the creation of a government-sponsored non-profit health insurance option that people could choose instead of a private health insurance plan. However, if the plan encouraged companies to drop private health insurance coverage for their workers, support for the public option falls to 29%, and opposition rises to 58%.

As Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, wrote in the Wall Street Journal: “The most important fundamental is that 68% of American voters have health insurance coverage they rate good or excellent. … Most of these voters approach the health care reform debate fearing that they have more to lose than to gain.”

Other challenging issues in the Senate debate include abortion and illegal immigration. Ever since the House’s passage of the Stupak Amendment which says the “public option” would not cover elective abortions and that recipients of federal insurance subsidies could not use them to buy abortion coverage, the divide among Democrats has been visible.

Earlier polling showed that 48% nationwide favored the abortion ban, but most supporters of health care reform didn’t want to address the issue. Just 13% of all voters wanted abortion coverage mandated in the legislation.

The Democrats are on the wrong side of health care – and every single element within their health care plan.  And yet here they are, determined to ram it through (especially before the public can get a chance to know how truly bad the plan is) and impose it on a country that doesn’t want it.

Obama’s approval is now at minus 15 – his lowest recorded number yet.  Only 45% of the country approves of him, versus 54% that disapprove.

You’d think that would matter.  But Democrats seem on a suicide mission to destroy America and destroy our way of life.  Your key words for understanding why: the Cloward-Piven strategy.  First ruin the country and cause it to implode, then assume total control over a desperate and hungry population by offering government as their only savior.

Elections have consequences.  A foolish America may literally pay for electing Democrats with their country.

Americans need to begin giving Democrats hell, or else Democrats will most assuredly give hell to Americans.

November 24, 2009

The plummet of BHO’s Passion Index numbers accelerates as Rasmussen reports 42% who strongly disapprove versus 27% who strongly approve of the President’s performance.  BHO Passion Index = negative 15%.   Highest Rasmussen number EVAH!

Here’s a 5 Layer Bean Dip paradigm to divide the US electorate into quintiles from Far Left to Far Right — though each is not exactly 20%.  Call the Far Left and Far Right both about 15%.  Call the Center about 30%.  Left and Right are about 20% each.  Very roughly. 

In the length of one tweet or less, here’s the motivation behind how each group voted in the 2008 Presidential election:

The Far Left:  The Far Left voted for Obama because they know him to be one of their own. 

The Left:  The Left voted for Obama because they’re honest Democrats who love the BHO Fable that any person of any color could become Prez.

The Center:  The Center because they believed him when he said he was post-partisan and would govern from the center and McCain was sketchy.

The Right:  The Right voted against Obama because McCain was the lesser of two evils, though not by much.

The Far Right:  See the Far Left.  The Far Right held their nose and voted for McCain because they saw Obama as one with the Far Left.

So what’s the scoop in bean dip bowl?  As long BHO governs from The Far Left resistance from The Right will stiffen to 100% and The Center will continue to abandon him and his party.

Who’s got the Big Mo?  Not enough ‘new’ votes in BHO’s Far Left base to replace the vote attrition in The Center.  Plus The Right is now the motivated cohort for the next election cycle.

CAN YOU SAY WHIPSAW?

According to Rasmussen, only 38% of voters favor ObamaCare. This is the “lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.”

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Did you doubt for a minute that the Mammogram advisory would have a devastating impact on public support for health reform? It became clear to America that under ObamaCare an advisory like the one issued last week would no longer be an advisory – it would be a command.

Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.

The drop in support is devastating – suddenly, everyone understands that Death Panels are real. But is it in time to scare Democrats enough to abandon their death march?

Prior to this, support for the plan had never fallen below 41%. Last week, support for the plan was at 47%. Two weeks ago, the effort was supported by 45% of voters.

The more America learns about the new era of socialism, the more they like things the way they are. How long will it be before voters will fall for the Dems again?

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% now oppose the plan.

Oh, but Democrats love to tell you how much citizens love the public option. What they fail to mention is that while the PO polls well, voters hate the legislation!

Half the survey was conducted before the Senate voted late Saturday to begin debate on its version of the legislation. Support for the plan was slightly lower in the half of the survey conducted after the Senate vote.

So numbers may just drop further tomorrow.

The longer OBAMA dithers on sending troops to Afghanistan, the more support for the war is eroding, this according to this morning’s Rasmussen polls. Is this a calculated plan or an unintended consequence? A month ago, 45% of those polled believed we could still win this war as opposed to 39% today.

Did the commie cabal in the White House know that this was likely to happen? Or is this another “lucky” break for them? If public support continues to fall off, it will make it easier for him to extracate us from this mess.

Or is it an indication that most Americans don’t trust him as a leader to manage and command a war – or a country?

His approval rating has been in minus double digits for the last 9 consecutive days;  at -13 today.

But we can still take heart: 24% of those polled say they watch Oprah, at least occasionally. (insert rolley eyed emoticon here, please.) And although she has tearfully announced to a likewise tearful audience that the end days are coming for her show, Oprah is in the works with HBO on a  really sexy series.

The writer of this hour long program for HARPO Films is the same gal who wrote Secretary, which starred James Spader and Meg Gyllenhaal. When I read this I had to laugh out loud as it was described as “the story of a boss-secretary relationship that veers into S&M.”

VEERS? if you’ve seen Secretary, you know it does not veer – it dive bombs into serious kink!

Oprah’s new HBO series pilot is about a woman who leaves her husband, kids and home in sunny suburban Santa Monica to embark on a voyage of self discovery and live out her fantasies (of the sexually dark and seedy kind) in a dark and seedy part of L.A. She disappears so abruptly that her family initially believes she’s been kidnapped or murdered… or both.

ahhhhhhhh…. interesting times.

From Rasmussen Reports:

Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% now oppose the plan.

Half the survey was conducted before the Senate voted late Saturday to begin debate on its version of the legislation. Support for the plan was slightly lower in the half of the survey conducted after the Senate vote.

Prior to this, support for the plan had never fallen below 41%. Last week, support for the plan was at 47%. Two weeks ago, the effort was supported by 45% of voters.

Intensity remains stronger among those who oppose the push to change the nation’s health care system: 21% Strongly Favor the plan while 43% are Strongly Opposed.

Public support for socialized medicine has steadily eroded and has now hit its lowest point ever, dropping 9 points in just one week!  Any intelligent observer would have to conclude that while the 2008 campaign generalities and platitudes sounded nice to some naive people, now that Americans have gotten a good look at the reality of such a program they have decided that it is not in their best interest.

Given that, and the fact that the congress is allegedly comprised of our “public servants”, one would expect the House and Senate to drop the matter.  But they will not.  Why?  Because this is not about giving the people what they want.  This does not even have anything to do with a concern for the health care needs of Americans.

This is about the power and control that comes with government dependency.  Neal Boortz summed it up well today:

ObamaCare = Entitlement = Dependency = Control = Power

This is the biggest power grab in the history of the republic.  It is time for us to do some heavy lifting.  It is time for us to do our part to earn the right to share the label of American with people like Nathan Hale and Joseph Warren and Samuel Adams.

Let’s not let them down, my brothers and sisters.  Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country.

These statist bastards have no idea that they have truly awakened the sleeping giant.  Let’s make our forefathers proud.

“This is about saving the future of our species.”

These words were uttered by Barack Obama only a few months ago at a press conference on the upcoming climate conference in Copenhagen, and the whole world over breathed a collective intake of expectation on hearing them. If America is onside, they thought, then everyone else will fall into line; China, India, Australasia.

But things are not, it would seem, quite as rosy as some would have us believe.

Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the Danish Prime Minister, is reported to have lowered his expectations for the conference. The organisers of Copenhagen have admitted last weekend that they no longer have any hope that the summit will be able to formulate a final legally binding agreement; the hope now, being spearheaded by Rasmussen as conference host, is that global leaders will be able to reach a “political deal” now which can be followed by a legal one at a later stage. The only questions remaining are just how “political” this deal will be and how soon the legal one will follow.

The date in everyone’s mind is 1 January 2013, the day the Kyoto protocol expires. From than point onwards, there will be no legally binding limits placed on countries globally on greenhouse gas emissions; all carbon trading deals currently in operation will be null and void, and any incentives to cut emissions will quickly dry up.

That date is just a little over three years away. Given that the Kyoto protocol took over seven years after signing to become a legally binding international agreement, anything signed by governments next year may not be ratified in time by the requisite number of states.

The Danish Prime Minister, remarking at a meeting in Singapore of Asian leaders, said that the pragmatic approach was to focus on “specific commitments and begin to bind countries to meet certain targets by certain dates”. He went on to say that the figures were needed, as was the action; his climate minister, Connie Hedegaard, agreed. Cynics are pointing to the politics of Mr Rasmussen’s right-of-centre party, Venstre, and their lacklustre attempts to tackle their own carbon emissions thus far.

For me, pragmatism is not enough. Nor is that other fashionable word “consensus.”

To me consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects — the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner “I stand for consensus”?

It is on the issue of consensus to which we return to President Barack Obama. Thought to be reluctant to have to renegade on promises that Congress will not let him keep – as Al Gore had to on Kyoto in 1997 as Vice President, he wants all climate change bills currently before Congress to pass before he makes any firm pledges either way. There is no possible chance that this will happen before Copenhagen.

Asiatic leaders, including the influential President Hu Jintao of China, have insisted that neither they nor their countries will commit to reductions in carbon emissions until the US is fully committed to cutting theirs. This was reported in newspapers the world over with a variety of different headlines, but one of the most cutting was in Le Monde and simply read “le lion se réveille”. If Obama can get a bill through Congress, then the international deal that now looks thoroughly stalled will remain strikingly doable next year. For the pessimists, it seems as if climate talks just ran out of time.

Tommy

Humans do have an amazing capacity for believing what they choose and excluding that which is painful

Senator John McCain’s future in the U.S. Senate may be a little less assured than previously thought.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely 2010 Republican Primary voters in Arizona finds the longtime incumbent in a virtual tie with potential challenger J.D. Hayworth. McCain earns 45% of the vote, while Hayworth picks up 43%.

Former Minuteman leader Chris Simcox gets four percent (4%) support, while two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate and seven percent (7%) are undecided.

With Thanksgiving less than a week away and the effective end of the Autumn food season on the horizon, students are returning home for their annual Thanksgiving breaks. As someone who isn’t terribly fond of the holiday diet, I ask what are your favorite foods for Thanksgiving?

A Rasmussen Report conducted in 2005 indicated that roughly 81 percent of families dine of turkey as the main course for their meal, with ham following at eight percent, and any other meal at  seven percent. Several other online polls conducted by Baldwin City and Yahoo indicated that most online users, however, favor stuffing to the main turkey, to which I vehemently disagree.

When given the option of either turkey or stuffing (keeping in mind that we’re talking about the giant whole turkey that takes hours to prepare), turkey should always come out on top. Look, stuffing is simple. Stove Top simple. Turkey has to be made carefully and is much less available (not talking about deli meat). Plus, for a lot of families, this is the only time of the year when a large turkey is eaten.

So for those of you who opt for the other table options next Thursday – shove it.

The trend is strikingly visible in a single image from Rasmussen:

The green line is the people who like Obama.  And it’s dropping like an asteroid.  The red line is the people who don’t like Obama.  And it’s going higher and higher.  And the “-14″ is the difference between the people who really like Obama from the people who really don’t like him.  As you can see, the “really don’t like hims” have it.

At traffic lights, I’m a big fan of encountering green.  Here, I really love the red.

Obama is already speaking about the possibility that he might be so politically gangrenous by 2012 that he won’t even bother to run.

“You know, if – if I feel like I’ve made the very best decisions for the American people and three years from now I look at it and, you know, my poll numbers are in the tank and because we’ve gone through these wrenching changes, you know, politically, I’m in a tough spot, I’ll – I’ll feel all right about myself,” Obama told CNN’s Ed Henry.

Obama went on to say:

“I’d feel a lot worse, if at a time of such urgency for the American people I was spending a lot of time thinking about how I could position myself to ensure reelection.

“Because if I were doing that right now, I wouldn’t have taken on health care, I wouldn’t be taking on things that are unpopular,” the president said. “I wouldn’t be closing Guantanamo. There are a whole series of choices that I’m making that I know are going to create some political turbulence. But I think they’re the right thing to do, and history will bear out my theories or not.”

All I can say is, “or not.”  You’re “theories” are bogus, Barry.

Health care was bad enough, in terms of a blatant display of either ignorance or disavowal of the clear will of the American people.  But when you look at the determination to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other terrorists on civilian trial in New York City in the face of overwhelming rejection of the electorate, you can see that Obama frankly doesn’t give a damn what the nation thinks.

As Rasmussen puts it:

Just 29% agree with the decision to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and five other terrorists suspects in a New York city courtroom. Only 14% believe terrorist suspects should receive the same legal rights in court as U.S. citizens.

We can add the fact that Obama hasn’t bothered to try to keep our citizens safe at home or our soldiers safe abroad (or at home for that matter).  Between Afghanistan, Fort Hood, and the H1N1 debacle, you’ve seriously got to wonder.

Only 47% of Americans at least somewhat approve of Obama.  And only 47% of Democrats strongly approve of him.

But he’s not listening to you.  He’s listening to George Soros and Andy Stern.

And there are portents of a total disaster for Democrats in 2010 if they continue on their suicidal path into the hard-core ideological liberal agenda they have been pursuing.

The Huffington Post (hardly even remotely CLOSE to being pro-conservative) has this:

NEW YORK — Despite sweeping Democratic successes in the past two national elections, continuing job losses and President Barack Obama’s slipping support could lead to double-digit losses for the party in next year’s congressional races and may even threaten their House control.

Fifty-four new Democrats were swept into the House in 2006 and 2008, helping the party claim a decisive majority as voters soured on a Republican president and embraced Obama’s message of hope and change. Many of the new Democrats are in districts carried by Republican John McCain in last year’s presidential contest; others are in traditional swing districts that have proved tough for either party to hold.

From New Hampshire to Nevada, House Democrats also will be forced to defend votes on Obama’s $787 billion economic recovery package and on energy legislation viewed by many as a job killer in an already weak economy.

Add to that the absence of Obama from the top of the ticket, which could reduce turnout among blacks, liberals and young people, and the likelihood of a highly motivated GOP base confused by the president’s proposed health care plan and angry at what they consider reckless spending and high debt.

Taken together, it could be the most toxic environment for Democrats since 1994, when the party lost 34 House incumbents and 54 seats altogether. Democrats currently have a 256-178 edge in the House, with one vacancy. Republicans would have to pick up 40 seats to regain control.

Republicans hold a six point lead over Democrats in generic balloting – and have held a lead for four months.  That hasn’t happened since the dinosaurs walked the earth.  That’s actually even bigger than it sounds, given the fact that those identifying themselves as “Republican” are considerably more likely to vote than those identifying themselves as “Democrat.”

On my own view, the Democrats aren’t in 1994 trouble; they’re actually more along the lines of being in 1997 trouble.

1997 was the year of the Heaven’s Gate cult mass suicide, as members – all wearing the same kind of Nike sneakers – committed suicide in order to beam themselves onto the spaceship hiding behind the Hale-Bopp comet.

As the Democrats pursue radical leftist policy after radical leftist policy, they are essentially saying, “Beam me up, Scotty!” just like their Heaven’s Gate intellectual forebears did before them.  As the American people clearly are turning against the Democrats’ radicalism, the Democrats are calling for still more radicalism.  It’s almost as if they’re saying, “If we guzzle more of our Kool-aid faster, we’ll be SURE to win.”

I was never a Bill Clinton fan.  But one thing you could count on Slick Willie to do was whatever was politically best for Slick Willie.  He was a liberal; but if the people demanded he be a moderate, he would suddenly discover that he was a moderate.

That isn’t Barry Hussein.  He is a hard-core ideologue.  People like me tried to warn you that the man who spent 23 years in a racist, anti-American, Marxist church would be such an ideologue.

Barry will destroy his presidency, and destroy the Democrat Party, in order to advance an agenda that is far more radical than the American people understood when they elected him.

Say hello to Obama’s little friend, the Cloward-Piven strategy.

Update, November 24:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15. This is the lowest Approval Index rating yet measured for President Obama (see trends).

Fifty-two percent (52%) of Democrats Strongly Approve while 68% of Republicans Strongly Disapprove. Among those not affiliated with either major political party, just 16% Strongly Approve and 51% Strongly Disapprove (see other recent demographic highlights from the tracking poll).

Oh, oh, Democrats.  It looks like independents utterly despise your Messiah.

Americans don’t agree with President Obama, which is why is popularity has dropped so precipitously. He started out last January with a 70% approval rating, and now Gallup joins two other pollsters in tracking him below 50%.

The latest Gallup Daily tracking results show 49% of Americans approving of the job Barack Obama is doing as president, putting him below the majority approval level for the first time in his presidency.

The health care fight is turning voters against the President, for the health care fight has the President working against America. Why does he seek to pass a health care bill that shows no respect for the U.S. Constitution?

Democrats want you to know that your McDonald’s Angus Burger meal has about 1,500 calories — before you buy and burp.

Buried deep in the House health care bill is a provision, likely to raise nanny-state hackles, requiring fast-food chains and vending machine owners to notify customers of calorie counts — by conspicuously posting nutritional information on menus or machines.

Aren’t Dems just responding to popular demand, you ask? Hasn’t there been outrage over the lack of burger control.

The provision — Section 2572 — requires retail food establishments “part of a chain with 20 or more locations” to list calorie counts “on the menu board including a drive-through board,” as is currently required in New York City and other localities.

And you know how upset folks have been about the lack of caloric detail on vending machines!

A “vending machine operator shall provide a sign in close proximity to each article of food or the selection button” that includes similar data.

Which might offer some insight into why the Senate is racing to get the health care bill passed against the plummeting support for the President and his proposals.

Substantially more Americans rate healthcare coverage in the country as excellent or good this year (38%) than did so a year ago (26%). Similarly, more Americans now say they are satisfied with the total cost of U.S. healthcare (26%) than said this a year ago (19%).

The more Dems push health care reform, the more folks think about it and realize that you don’t fix what ain’t broken. Regarding their own health care situation, Americans are pretty happy.

For example, 81% rate the quality of their own care as excellent or good, and 69% rate their coverage this positively.

It’s tough for the president to succeed while trying to be cute. Especially while visiting with the troops in South Korea, where he told them they made a good photo-op!

This as Obama’s approval ratings continue to drop, with a second poll in two days showing him below 50%.

….a Fox News poll released Thursday showed Obama’s approval rating at a new low.  Forty-six percent of respondents disapprove of the president’s job performance while an equal percentage approved, the survey found.  The poll, which surveyed 900 registered voters from Nov. 17 to Nov. 18, has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.

On Wednesday, a Quinnipiac poll showed Obama with a 48% approval. Dropping popular support, below the 50% level, generally leads to an inability to hold congress in line.