Slow news day – here’s the 12/28/09 summary
Posted by Clyde Middleton
on Dec 28 2009 Filed under Politics.
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I’ve been on the wires, domestic and foreign newspapers, and the news aggregators for a couple of hours. Everything seems old. Let’s round up the issues.
Obama went to dinner with Mich. Boy howdy. She’s lost seven points in her favorability rating. Means nothing except the MSM is teeing up a comeback as – have they called her the most intelligent woman in America yet? – the sample mix changes to reach the pre-determined end. Note that her favorability won’t increase, just rebound. Nothing to see.
Barry is at -12 on the Rasmussen “net strongleys.” One side says that a good change from -21, but the other side says that he’s been in double-digit negatives for all but eight days since mid-October. Of course his numbers are moderating a bit – he’s stopped talking. That’s gotta be killing him.
J’Nappy corrected herself on the “system worked” crack, but couldn’t help herself by adding that she was taken out of context. Look, Jan, there’s an issue of whether the guy had a passport. His own father alerted us on his potential danger. He bought his ticket – over $2,800 – with cash. The explosive chemical he used was not exotic. We have the technology in place to detect it. President Bush GAVE detectors to other nations. The tech just wasn’t used. But for a bad detonator, a mistake we should assume will not be repeated, we would have lost those people. As Bill notes in his post, for all intents and purposes, Flight 253 exploded in midair. The system failed completely and utterly. Don’t coat the situation with sugar. Fix it. Just fix it.
The Pak-5 story is developing. These are the American Muslims that were rounded up over there. Seems they had a “site map” for a nuclear power plant. All of these clowns – Bad Detonator Boy and these fools – are like playing Whack-a-Mole. President Bush kept us 100% safe, albeit he had Richard Reid with the failed shoe bomb. So Obama has gotten his mulligan. No more, Barry. You own this now. Completely. Do a good job, son.
The health-care discussions are predictable. Chris Dodd is whelping out the “Party of No” mantra. How mindless and predictable. It anticipates the equally predictable faux run at appointing conferees to the Conference Committee that will be charged with merging the House and Senate bills but will never sit for a day. Tapper nailed Lil Bobbi Gibbs about transparency in these final House and Senate discussions; Gibbs deferred. The House is saying, it seems, that the public option can perhaps be achieved in other than name. They’ll back off that, too. The House dems are largely “80% folks” – get 4/5s of what they want now, and legislate in increments later. Two wild cards remain: Abortion and party defections.
There’s no hope for abortion in the Senate. Only Stupak and his league can stop the issue. That’s a rather thin hope.
Party defections are another issue. Notice two things coming out in the “polls”: The claim on a Politico-site poll (read, “No science”) is that GOP members of Congress are a big 2009 loser; and health-care continues to be viewed very poorly. The truth is that the GOP does not run Congress, and the overall approval of Congress right now is within the MOE of where it was on 1994 Election Day. The dems are also muttering that “20 seats” would be a disappointment. Really? Talk about trying to massage expectations. History points to 41 seats.
On health care, the dems are looking too closely at the polls. They think the American dislike is issue-based, so if they tweak this or that the polls will change. Just not true. What we don’t like is the federal footprint in our health care. We don’t want them between us and our insurance company or inside our doctor’s office. We recognize that cutting Medicare is just that – cutting Medicare. It is violating the promise we made to our seniors, to our parents, to us. The rest of the discussion on health care right now is just fluff.
It’s rather telling, methinks, that “Congressional dems have asked the Administration” to set aside Cap & Trade until after the mid-term elections. This statement does not comport with “GOP big 2009 losers,” “we’ll lose just 20 seats,” and “the American people will like health care as soon as they understand it.” The dems are in trouble.
Which brings us to the overplay on “no more defections.” It’s all over the MSM. There’s just as many people on the left talking about coming defections as there are people over there saying they have “solid information” that no more will occur. Expect a few more. It’s the only way for some of the freshman to have a chance at re-election, and the primaries are approaching rapidly.
That’s it for now.
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