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14 Aug 2007 10:09:47 AM |
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WOW! APPROVAL RATING FOR DUMocRAT CONGRESS WAY UP TO 25%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
"While the president's approval ratings are low, Congressional
approval ratings are even lower. Just 25 percent of Americans say they
approve of the way the legislative body is performing. Shortly before
the 2006 midterm election that resulted in the Democrats gaining
control of Congress, a slightly higher percentage of Americans - 29
percent - said they approved of Congressional performance."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/13/opinion/polls/main3162932.shtml
GO AHEAD, READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE. YOU WILL ENJOY IT.
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| User: "Captain America" |
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| Title: Re: WOW! APPROVAL RATING FOR DUMocRAT CONGRESS WAY UP TO 25%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
14 Aug 2007 01:50:17 PM |
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wrote:
"While the president's approval ratings are low, Congressional
approval ratings are even lower. Just 25 percent of Americans say they
approve of the way the legislative body is performing. Shortly before
the 2006 midterm election that resulted in the Democrats gaining
control of Congress, a slightly higher percentage of Americans - 29
percent - said they approved of Congressional performance."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/13/opinion/polls/main3162932.shtml
GO AHEAD, READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE. YOU WILL ENJOY IT.
YAWN.....They get low ratings from Democrats too. We do that because we
are mentally independent, not sheep like all of you Rush/Drudge/Coulter
followers.
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| User: "Sid9" |
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| Title: Re: WOW! APPROVAL RATING FOR DUMocRAT CONGRESS WAY UP TO 25%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
14 Aug 2007 11:08:10 AM |
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wrote:
"While the president's approval ratings are low, Congressional
approval ratings are even lower. Just 25 percent of Americans say they
approve of the way the legislative body is performing. Shortly before
the 2006 midterm election that resulted in the Democrats gaining
control of Congress, a slightly higher percentage of Americans - 29
percent - said they approved of Congressional performance."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/13/opinion/polls/main3162932.shtml
GO AHEAD, READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE. YOU WILL ENJOY IT.
RRR concedes to Hillary:
Hillary: the right's choice?
Clinton's free-trade economics and posturing on security could endear her to
conservatives unimpressed by the GOP field.
By Bruce Bartlett
August 10, 2007
Is hell freezing over? One might think so after reading recent comments from
editors at National Review and the Weekly Standard, America's leading
conservative magazines. Over the last 15 years, both magazines seldom have
passed up an opportunity to excoriate Hillary Rodham Clinton as some kind of
crypto-communist.
No more. Today, Sen. Clinton is rapidly becoming not merely acceptable to
many right-wingers but possibly even their candidate of choice.
Listen to Kathryn Lopez, editor of National Review Online, who was blogging
live during the AFL-CIO Democratic debate Tuesday in Chicago: "In response
to more than a few answers tonight -- on Iraq, on China -- I've said, 'She
sounds reasonable.' "
Lopez wasn't being facetious. She seemed, in fact, disturbed by her
unexpected positive feelings toward Clinton. "That's really hard to admit,"
she wrote. "I still have both 'Clinton Hater' and 'Vast-Right-Wing
Conspiracy' cards in my wallet."
Lopez needn't worry. Her boss, National Review Editor Rich Lowry, also has
had strangely respectful thoughts lately about Clinton. In a July 27 column,
he expressed genuine admiration for her political skill, especially in
managing to placate the left wing of the Democratic Party on Iraq without
repudiating her vote for the war nor making herself patently unacceptable as
a potential commander in chief. It was "brilliant politics," Lowry conceded.
Clinton's unwillingness to pander to her own party's base on Iraq has won
her grudging respect from another unlikely source as well: William Kristol,
editor of the Weekly Standard. On Aug. 7, he was quoted in the Washington
Post saying that compared with Sen. Barack Obama, who is trying to energize
the left to raise his falling poll numbers, she is looking quite
presidential.
"Obama," Kristol said, "is becoming the antiwar candidate, and Hillary
Clinton is becoming the responsible Democrat who could become commander in
chief in a post-9/11 world."
What's interesting is how quickly the right's view of Clinton has evolved.
Just in May, I published a National Review column that simply noted that she
clearly is the most conservative of the three major candidates for the
Democratic nomination -- and for that, Pat Toomey of the right-wing Club for
Growth called me "crazy."
The motive for my original article was a calculation that a Republican can't
win the presidency next year; none of the party's candidates look strong
enough to overcome the handicaps that President Bush has imposed on them.
Therefore, I had no choice but to size up the Democrats from a conservative
point of view. Which one is least bad?
On economics, Clinton seemed likely to be a rerun of her husband's
administration: fiscally conservative, free-trade-oriented, pragmatic. She
confirmed my conclusion in a May 29 speech on economic policy. In it,
Clinton said, "There is no greater force for economic growth than free
markets." That's about as good as any conservative can hope for from a
Democrat.
Clinton's voting record also shows that she is far from the most liberal
member of the Senate. According to the National Journal, she ranked 32nd
last year, with a rating of 70.2 (100 being perfectly liberal). Obama, by
contrast, was significantly more liberal, with a rating of 86.
Of course, Clinton is far more liberal than any of the major Republican
candidates and few, if any, conservatives will vote for her should she get
the Democratic nomination, which seems increasingly likely. But I'm starting
to see the makings of a rapprochement between Clinton and the "vast
right-wing conspiracy."
This could have important political implications. There are lots of
different ways to fight a battle. At one extreme, one can fight to the death
like a trapped rat; at the other, one can offer only token resistance. Not
long ago, I thought most conservatives would have employed the trapped-rat
option at the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency.
But at least a few conservative opinion-makers are ratcheting downward their
level of resistance. They are coming to terms with the growing likelihood
that she will be our next president and concluding that maybe it is
something they can live with.
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