This week could get interesting. The article says (near the bottom of my excerpt) that Obummer will likely propose a plan Republicans can accept (thereby lending validation to the argument some of you have made that Obummer is just a Republican in Democrats' clothing), or will propose a plan he KNOWS Republicans will hate (thereby validating MY contention that the man puts politics and partisanship before leadership.)
It's always possible he'll go down the middle too, but none of us take THAT possibility too seriously. Not from the President who just heard Michigan unionists threaten to attack Republic S.O.B.s and, in response, merely said 'No comment.'
So, any bets before Thursday's talk as to which of us will be right???
Barack Obama's popularity plummets ahead of key speech
Two opinion polls put US president's approval rating at new career low, with faltering economy the dominant issue for voters
Ewen MacAskill in Washington
guardian.co.uk,
Tuesday 6 September 2011 19.58 BST
Barack Obama gives a speech on Labor Day in Detroit. The president's approval ratings
have sunk to a new career low.
Barack Obama's popularity has sunk to a new low, according to two new polls, adding to pressure on him to come up with a radical and workable jobs plan that might reverse his fortunes.
Just 43% of people surveyed in a Washington Post/ABC opinion poll published on Tuesday approve of the job the president is doing overall – a new career low.
This was mirrored by a Politico/George Washington University poll that put Obama's approval rating at 45%, a drop of 7% since May, reflecting attitudes towards his handling of the debt standoff with Republicans in Congress.
The dominant issue is the faltering economy, particularly unemployment, which is stuck at 9.1%, and Obama needs to produce some fresh job creation ideas when he addresses a joint session of Congress on Thursday night.
"The poll figures are not good for him but we are still looking at 14 months before the next election," Norm Ornstein, a political analyst at the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute, said on Tuesday. "An awful lot can happen in 14 months … I would not write him off."
Orstein said: "If anything can serve as a wake-up call – as if we haven't had enough alarm calls already – these polls ought to do it." He added that he felt Obama needed to become "more feisty" in dealing with the Republicans.
The president, speaking in Detroit on Monday, said part of his plan would be to create big infrastructure projects such as rebuilding crumbling roads and bridges in the US, something he has been talking about since his 2008 White House campaign.
The president may opt for projects he thinks Republicans in Congress will agree to, or go instead for proposals he knows they will block, allowing him to portray them as obstructionist.
Full story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/06/barack-obama-popularity-plummets
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