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Split government, split populace

by YankeeJim | December 14, 2010 at 02:52 pm

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Breaking at the seams, America needs to collaborate and tend to business.

This story reports in summery that we are tied: we like the President and we like a Republican Congress.

What we really want is for the economy to get back on track. Did you miss the off-handed endorsement by Mayor Michael Bloomberg this week when he asked people to get behind the President? We have one commander in chief and you know he is pretty smart regardless of being let down by senior members of his own party who are largely political lifers and unfit for office. That aside, there is perhaps an equally unfit set of Republicans, though some are marginally better fit to right the economy.

So if I were President, I would call up Mayor Bloomberg and Steve Forbes, a couple of knowledgeable guys and solicit their advice.

“Breaking News Alert: Post-ABC poll: public not yet sold on GOP
December 14, 2010 5:03:03 PM
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Republicans made major gains in the November elections but they have yet to win the hearts and minds of the American people, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The midterm elections – where Republicans gained 63 seats to take control of the House of Representatives and added six seats to their Senate minority – were widely seen as a rebuke to President Obama. Still, the public now trusts Obama marginally more than congressional Republicans to deal with the country’s main problems in the coming years, 43 to 38 percent. And when it comes to who has taken the stronger leadership role in Washington, it's an even divide: 43 percent say Obama, 42 percent the GOP.

For more information, visit washingtonpost.com”

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"thirty-aught-six" (not verified)

at 15:13 on December 14th, 2010

"Republicans made major gains in the November elections but they have yet to win the hearts and minds of the American people." Which American people? The ones who didn't vote for them? Because I doubt very much if those who voted Republican expect much more during a lame duck session. Leave it to the Wash.Post to write such tripe. Since the election Democrats have been in denial and have offered excuse after excuse for the election results and since have put the onus on the newly elected for all the ills. The Liberal media completely disregards the fact that those elected don't actually make up the government until after January. It's called a lame duck session for a reason folks. A "lame duck" session of Congress occurs whenever one Congress meets after its successor is elected, but before the successor's term begins. The Session of legislature called after a general election that includes members who were not reelected.

YankeeJim

at 16:21 on December 14th, 2010

"Leave it to the Wash.Post to write such tripe."
I am quite fond of tripe, especially from Roncone;s restaurant in Rochester New York.

"thirty-aught-six" (not verified)

at 17:25 on December 14th, 2010

Tripe. Offal. Pronounced, awful. From the Germanic Abfall. Which means garbage. I could have referred to the statement as garbage but, I was trying to be polite. No wait, make that...PC. :-)