The Tables Are Starting to Turn

As I predicted last week, it appears that the tables are starting to turn, Barack Obama's approval rating has now fallen to 37%.

You had to scroll way down to find it but an interesting story today from the Associated Press stating that Barack Obama's approval rating in the wake of the the partial government shut down is now at 37%. You heard almost nothing about it in the news media today.

I am of the belief that many of the media outlets don't know how bias they actually are. You see, a majority of news here in Canada and the United States comes from only a small handful of news sources... "The Wire" as it were. If the wire services (which are few to begin with) aren't reporting certain stories, you won't hear it on a majority of major media outlets.

I give you an example of that happening with today's story about Obama's low approval rating.

Below, is an excerpt (you can read the whole story here) from the story as it appeard on AP's Website:

Most Americans disapprove of the way Obama is handling his job, the poll suggests, with 53 percent unhappy with his performance and 37 percent approving of it. Congress is scraping rock bottom, with a ghastly approval rating of 5 percent.

Indeed, anyone making headlines in the dispute has earned poor marks for his or her trouble, whether it's Democrat Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, or Republican John Boehner, the House speaker, both with a favorability rating of 18 percent.

Now I present you with the wire version of the same story... in it's entirety:

WASHINGTON - A new poll says Americans are holding Republicans primarily responsible for the partial government shutdown.
    
The Associated Press-GfK survey finds plenty of disdain to go around as people size up the federal impasse. Most now disapprove of the way President Barack Obama is handling his job. And Congress' approval rating is a perilous 5 per cent.

    Overall, Republicans are taking the bigger hit in public opinion. In the poll, 63 per cent say Republicans deserve a lot of the blame. About half say Obama or the Democrats in Congress are largely responsible.

    The poll finds that the tea party is a significant influence among Republicans as well as a source of division. Forty-one per cent of Republicans identified themselves as tea party supporters and they want Republican leaders in Congress to stand firm.

 It should be noted that Obama's 37% approval rating is now lower than George W. Bush's approval rating at the same duration in his presidency. And at it's worst, Bush's approval rating was 33% and that was with the media crapping on him all the time. Unfortunately, the media is still in Obama's corner. Hopefully they wake up soon and start doing some actual reporting... like a CBS reporter did yesterday.

Glenn Beck - "The Forgotten Man"

As mentioned below, I've been listening to a lot of American radio talk shows the last couple weeks. In particular, I've been finding Glenn Beck very entertaining and informative.

On Today's show, he had a great commentary called "The Forgotten Man". It's a commentary about political power. How politicians put themselves ahead of the voting public and how they use vulnerable citizens to make that happen. It's 11 minutes long but well worth the listen... Link Below:

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Glenn Beck - The Forgotten Man

US Government Shut Down... The Media Hype

I've been fascinated with this story of the partial shut down of the American government. So naturally, I've been consuming a lot of American Media this week.

The parks department is getting by far the most attention with this story. Most of the national parks are shut down, Yellowstone, Lake Mead, The St. Louis Arch, Mount Rushmore and many more. The progressives will tell you that the US economy is losing millions of dollars while these tourist attractions are shut down. Here we go again with this assumption that government creates jobs. This idea that Idea that if people aren't spending their money at the St. Louis Arch that it won't be spent at all. Totally bogus, they'll spend it at a restaurant they'll spend it at another attraction that isn't shut down, they'll buy a T-shirt or a hat. The really sad thing is that things that don't even cost money have barricades around them. There was that story this week about the WWII veterans who were denied the opportunity to see the national war memorial.

This whole thing is happening because the Republicans want to repeal Obama care. Perhaps they have a point, how many people are actually signing up for Obamacare? The Numbers are shocking. The healthcare.gov website crashed on Tuesday at people were "clamouring" to sign up for Obamacare. However the 5 million reported visitors were in reality 5 million page views. The actual number of unique visitors was 645 000. In addition, the sign up rate is horrible. Some reports say less that 1% of those who don't have insurance have signed up. The state of Connecticut signed up 373 people this week. 373 people in the whole state! And not one person in Louisiana or California have signed up yet.

So how long will this continue? My guess is that by October 10th, the two sides will be getting closer to a resolution. Right now, the Democrats have no interest in ending the shut down. Think about it, you have all the media outlets out there blaming the Republicans for this shut down. The longer this continues  the better it is for the Democrats. However, there will be a point next week where the tables will turn as people realize that the Democrats aren't willing to negotiate.

I've totally lost all respect for CNN after how they have been covering this story this week.They grill every Republican who comes on but give Democrats a nice easy interview. CNN had a single mother on the other morning who was being inconvenienced because her government food program for her and her baby was stopped by the shut down. It was all pity on me... I was waiting for CNN to ask why is she having children when she's not financially stable? Of course it never happened. This woman is going to continue to have kids and live on the government dole fore the next 15 years.

That's the problem, government is too big and is spending to much money on things that aren't essential. We are learning this week on who is essential and who isn't. Unfortunately, things will soon return to normal and non essential workers will will become essential again and we'll be right back where we started. That is until it's time to raise the debt ceiling again later this month.

Ron Paul Talks to Jay Leno

I'm not the biggest fan of Jay Leno, I won't get into the reasons here. But I love Ron Paul. So I put aside my dislike for Jay for 9 minutes and 5 seconds to watch Ron Paul's appearance on the Tonight show last week.

It's clear that Leno doesn't agree with everything Ron stands for but to Leno's credit, Gave Ron Paul a good interview. Check it out:

▶ Ron Paul - Tonight Show with Jay Leno 9/26/13 - Video Dailymotion