All good points..

But I am more concerned regarding how Obama is attempting to bypass the power of one third of our government...

This attempt to thwart or ignore the power of Congress is most disquieting...

MIchale.....

i can't speak for "the left," but if president bush had sent out an e-mail like that, my suspicion would have been that it was empty rhetoric. i would likely have assumed that bush already knew what he was going to do, and was simply looking for a public relations angle on it. perhaps a "regular guy" type of conservative citizen would emerge to be the face of the legislation, by suggesting bush do what bush had already planned to do anyway.

in such a scenario, any suggestion i made would be at best pointless. is this what obama is doing now? possible, perhaps even probable. then again, as we've established, obama has governed in a way more similar to bush than anyone on either side of the aisle is particularly comfortable admitting.

I got an email from someone named "Nancy-Ann DeParle" from the White House...

Normally, I don't share emails in any way, shape or form, but since this is obviously a SPAM email, I figure I am on safe ground..

Good afternoon,
When President Obama says that we can't wait to put Americans back to work, he's not just talking about the White House. He's talking about all of us. That "we" is everyone.
The President has a proposal -- the American Jobs Act -- that economists say could put nearly two million Americans back to work. But some in Congress are determined to block that jobs plan, so we're getting started with concrete actions that President Obama can take without waiting on lawmakers to debate legislation or pass a bill.
We are looking at everything that the government can do, and we know that some of the best ideas are going to come from people like you.
If you have an idea for something President Obama can do without the help of Congress, or know of a program in your community that needs to go nationwide, I want to hear from you.
Submit your recommendations at WhiteHouse.gov/Advise

Now, I have to ponder..

What would be the reaction from the Left if a GOP President had sent emails out to American citizens asking them for ideas on how to bypass and evade Congress...

I really have to wonder that...

Michale.....

I wonder how many Americans would support such action, knowing it will lead to the wholesale slaughter of over 3000 Iranian and Iraqi dissidents at Camp Ashraf..

The Obama Administration guaranteed the safety of the residents of Camp Ashraf in Aug of '09 when control of the city was handed over to Iraqi authorities..

Since then, there have been several massacres of residents at the hands of the Iraqi military at the behest of Tehran.

Once all US Forces are out of Iraq, there will be absolutely nothing to stop Iraq from wiping out the residents of Camp Ashraf on the orders of Iran..

The last American soldier to leave Iraq will not be cause for celebration..

It will be mark the beginning of the end of the lives of over 3000 Iranian and Iraqi peaceful dissidents..

Michale.....

Since 1974 (the year NBC started asking the question) no president has won re-election with 74% of Americans saying that the country is on the "wrong track"..

And no president has won re-election with 13% of Americans saying that they are satisfied with the way the country is.

No president has won re-election with approval numbers as low as 43%.

No president has won re-election with Unemployment higher than 7%.

And, since 1952, no president has won re-election with a consumer confidence index of 60.9.

And, barring an upheaval or something really dramatic, there really isn't any reason to expect that these numbers will change..

Obama needs to be looking for a Hail Mary here real soon...

Michale.....

An emerging enthusiasm gap on the right would be good news indeed. Keep us posted on what your brother thinks, as it is interesting data in the great scheme of things....

Michale -

Actually, before the foreign policy victories, Obama was polling as low as 38-39 percent in some polls. Now, he's polling at 43-47 percent. That's a pretty big improvement, in such a short time (a 5-8 percent bump).

Where's Chris1962? She knows polls, and is unafraid of facing the reality they show...

Heh.

-CW

All that good news and yet Obama's poll numbers didn't improve much at all...

Why???

Michale....

Up to now I suspect that most people haven't paid much attention to the tin-foil hat brigade ... sorry, the Republican Presidential primaries. However, we have now infused SEX into the mix. Always good for bringing out the couch potatoes.

My brother called me up tonite to ask who was trying to change the US motto. When I answered that no one was, that it was strictly a bill to say that the House was in favor of the motto he wanted to know why the dumbasses did that. My brother then cursed a few minutes and said "I give up. They're ALL dumbasses and ain't no one running that's any better" and hung up. My brother stands firmly to the right Adolf Hitler and is probably not going to vote.

Four years is a long time to keep the troops fired up. Especially when the troops came thru and nothing is getting done, anyway. Perhaps both sides have an enthusiasm gap.