Day102 Thursday 12/09/10

ran 1.9 miles

• Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Approval rating reflects that 27% of the nation’s voters strongly approve of President Obama’s performance and 41% strongly disapprove, making an Approval Index rating of –14 compared to –17 on this day last week.

• Overall, 46% of voters at least somewhat approve of Barack Obama’s performance as president and 54% disapprove.

• Only 26% of American voters feel the country is generally heading in the right direction.

• For all the stories we hear in the news about Christmas trees being prohibited from the lobbies of businesses and “Happy Holidays” taking the place of “Merry Christmas”, here is an interesting statistic: 92% of Americans say they celebrate Christmas in their family and only 6% do not. If 6% of the people in America wanted to ban the phrase “God bless you” from being stated after anyone in America sneezed, would Congress legislate that? Would businesses threaten their employees with immediate termination if they were to say it because 6% of people in America wanted it that way?

Continuing to inundate headlines and amass indecision, the House of Representatives cannot seem to find a middle ground in which everyone can equally set aside their egos and do something useful concerning the Bush tax cuts. They are set to expire at the end of this year and a decision has to be made. First, Obama and his democrats were driven to end these tax cuts for every family making $250,000 or more, without compromise. Then, on November 2, America united together and spoke loudly showing Barack Obama that we were not interested in his plan to deconstruct our country and indebt our children and grandchildren. Now, Barack Obama wants to recant on his promise to end the Bush tax cuts, letting down all of the people who voted for him, and renew them for another two years, even to the highest earners in America. And, today, his democratic gears in the House of Representatives went against his wishes and did not sign the bill laid before them. In a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill, democrats chanted “Just say no” regarding the president’s intention to continue the tax cuts.

Barack Obama currently faces a nation divided, with a greater number of people who do not believe in him or his ideas, a House of Representatives whose democratic lawmakers are behaving mutinously against what he is attempting to do to save some face in the eyes of American voters, and he will soon face a surge of newly sworn in conservative lawmakers, some who were highly driven Tea party candidates elected with a demanding obligation to make some real change in Washington.

The communal wall that separates politicians and their unexplainable motives from American voters and their just wishes is currently Barack Obama’s greatest bone of contention.

1.829.4 miles to go.