Each day seems to bring us closer to calls for outright treason. The calls are coming from right wing voices, and are receiving the echo treatment from pols, talking heads, and the right blogostan madhouse.
But, one thing is sure. We are NOT looking at desperate Pubbies trying to show they can paint with poop better than anyone else. No, the whole affair of mad gibbering has a very logical basis, and so far, due to Democrats not having any real number of "attack dogs" to push back against this inane B.S., the silliness is working.
How is it working? Follow the polls. Let's go downstairs.
While I have little use for Frank Newport, if we follow Gallup's approval numbers for President Obama, we notice something peculiar.
The date, July 13 to 19 seems to be the presage of the slide the President experienced in the polls.
Obama was overshadowed by the Sotomayor Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Republicans and wingers in particular were all atwitter over this.
Though stories about Michael Jackson dancing off to the stars were declining, he was still the third leading story of the period.
The health care mess received a kick from Reuters on 17 July 2009 with this story by James Pethokoukis, on top of the heavy breathing over Sotomayor.
Republicans and fiscally conservative Democrats seized on this analysis, and called for more controls on the scale and cost of the plan. They are concerned the United States, with its $1 trillion deficit this year, can't afford expanded care.
This was the underlying thread running through this story and others like it.
This week, July 13 to 17, is where President Obama starts to slip.
Further, President Obama was NOT helped with this story from July 22 which saw wide distribution, here Obama looked at first glance to be contradicting himself.
Notice how the story of how "Medicare and Medicaid will bust budget without reform" has been seized upon by Republicans as the bait to lure us oldsters into their silly game. Stories like that little blurb from Joanne Allen of Reuters got twisted into the "plot to rob Grandma and Grandpa." When in fact, without reform the system is indeed in danger of collapse. Not that Republicans give a damn of course.
I contend that from this date the increasingly loud, gross, and obnoxious farting from the right is part of a huge attempt to drag down the President's numbers. It didn't start that way, it really started by accident. Pubbies noticed that when Obama got upstaged by Michael Jackson, and Sonia Sotomayor his poll numbers went down.
We know the right wing noise is full of lies and exaggerations so laughable as to be outright dismissed, but for some reason Left Blogostan is all abuzz and consumed with this garbage.
We know that trumped up charges about Acorn and this or that hired hand in the administration are filled with the smell of bullshit by the 32 yard dump truckful.
But, when we pay attention to what is going on, we see a corrupt corporate whore like Baucus showing why both campaign finance reform is so desperately needed, and the legalized bribery of the corporate contribution loopholes have to be closed once and for all.
We are unfocused and off balance by both the absurdities from the right and the duplicities of pols who favor the corporate money more than the public good.
We see both madhatter Pubbies showing why they are Pubbies and not professors with gibberish like this and how the Senate Finance Committee is about as useful as teats on a bull.
So, when I hear that President Obama's numbers are going down, I am not worried.
When I see Pubbies playing caged monkeys throwing poop I see a game meant to derail the president. But like the Monkey Mail that makes the hate-mail-palooza column I also see no answers or suggestions beyond, "why don't you shut up' quality put-downs and goofiness.
They are loud tyrants with small penes. Republicans are a failing minority. The only success thay have had is changing the subject and playing Theater of the Absurd quality politics like this this wacko's spiel
It's all about perceptions and nothing fuels perceptions in politics like polls. Drag down the polls, drag down the politician.
Let us instead of chasing stupid Republicans doing stupid Republican tricks instead start to rally around this President.
The right is wanting us to go at Democrats. Well, in the case of Baucus, Lincoln, Nelson, Carper and Conrad, I agree we need better D's, but the blasting of Obama by Republican Mensa rejects and charlatans like Rove and his ilk should be a call for us to close ranks now...NOW!
I'm getting behind the President again. I am sick and tired of half-baked, cockamamie media stories going this way and that way causing more confusion than revelation.
Back to Obama.
Will you join me?