Petty Partisanship
Has widened the approval gap for the most divisive presidential start out the gate to date. That’s the 61 percent gap between Obama’s 88 percent approval among Dems and 27 percent approval among Republicans, a gap that is 10 percent bigger than Bush’s at this point, even with the “stolen election” rage. Karl Rove on Obama at WSJ:
His campaign promised post-partisanship, but since taking office Mr. Obama has frozen Republicans out of the deliberative process, and his response to their suggestions has been a brusque dismissal that “I won.”
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Mr. Obama has hastened the decline of Republican support with petty attacks on his critics and predecessor. For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
I dunno. I’m starting to move past those superficial slights and focusing on the fundamental incompetence of the man and those around him. Which Rove suggests may be what others less partisan are doing. IIndependents have been shifting away. Approval numbers down, budget disapproval up.
We don’t yet know the price Democrats will pay for Mr. Obama’s fiscal radicalism. But we do know that no presidential hopeful in our lifetime has made bipartisanship more central to his candidacy and few presidents have devoted as many eloquent words to its importance … It took him less than 11 weeks to achieve the very opposite of what he promised.
I remember people talking during the election about how smart this guy was, as an offset to the lack of experience. No evidence of that yet. In fact, the lack of experience seems to be grossly compounding what looks like a lack of common sense. And manners.
Arizona State University doesn’t think he’s shown sufficient smarts yet to merit an honorary degree, which is pretty bad. Apparently they have standards. He’ll be the commencement speaker there but won’t get one. Somebody needs to tell all the people who want to name schools, streets and bridges after him that being elected is just the start. Never mind accomplishing anything. He still has to get through the next four years without screwing things up.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:19 pm on Thursday, April 9, 2009
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April 10th, 2009 at 11:59 am
“He still has to get through the next four years without screwing things up”,
Sorry, he flunked that test when he pushed for and signed Porkulus.
April 10th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
In fact, the lack of experience seems to be grossly compounding what looks like a lack of common sense. And manners.
Exactly.