Day116 Thursday 12/23/10

ran 2.6 miles

• Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Approval rating shows that 26% of American voters strongly approve of Barack Obama’s performance as president while 39% strongly disapprove, giving Barack Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –13, compared to –17 on this day last week.

• Overall, 47% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of Obama’s performance and 51% disapprove.

• Only 23% of American voters generally believe the country is heading in the right direction. Regarding the official halt of the $1.2 trillion Omnibus spending bill, Howard Rich said, “It has been said that mindless growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. Now that America has been ‘fiscally diagnosed’, let’s hope a new crop of leaders has the courage to pursue a cure---not merely treat the symptoms of the disease.”

• Fifty-nine percent of American voters believe the most important objective of government is to protect individual rights and freedom. Twenty-four percent feel government’s priority is to ensure fairness and social justice. Ten percent believe government’s purpose is to manage the economy.

The first week in January will begin a new Congress. Those elected on November 2, 2010 will be sworn in and hopefully legislate on the ideas they campaigned on, which were ideas we voted them into office for to stop, or at least slow down, the liberal ideas that have awoken unmeasurable levels of frustration among American people.

This Lame Duck session has been a circus of seeing how many acts could be crammed into the ring before the new Congress began. The Lame Duck session is also known as “Zombie Congress” and it is called that for a reason. There were more deals struck and important bills signed and rejected, it seems, in the last month than the last two years…during a time period known as the “Zombie Congress”. All of the politicians who were voted out have nearly two months to perform a political kamikaze before cleaning their desks out because they have no consequence to their actions. While those who will be replacing them have to sit with their hands tied behind their backs for two months as they are forced to accept legislation they had no say in, even though they were elected before all of these current bills were passed. The Lame Duck Zombie Congress could use some serious revision regarding the excessive amount of time it takes for those elected to get into office and those voted out to pack their things.

1,794.4 miles to go.