Fair enough.. However, if *I* am right, I am sure I can be indulged for an "I TOLD YA'ALL SO" now and again, eh? :D

You know me.. I am never one to rub ya'alls nose it..

"{{cough}}bullshit!{{cough}}"
-IceMan, TOP GUN

OK, the Leno bit was funny. I caught it last night. Happy?

"Ecstatic...."
-Jafar, ALADDIN

:D

Bush's presidency was a study in leadership. It's called "How The Vice President Led The Country While Dubya Was On Vacation." Heh.

So, you are saying that CHENEY deserves the credit and not Bush??

Well, OK.. If that's what ya think.... :D

Michale

Yeah, I like the new graphs too. I changed the colors a tiny bit, but now all the previous presidents' graphs have been updated. Check them out at ObamaPollWatch.com or go to today's article and there are links in the last paragraph....

I'm going to look closer into the "most consistent president ever" phenomenon next month, because I think you're on to something (had too much to do with the charts this time around to delve into the data).

Michale -

Now why did I just KNOW you'd enjoy this month's column?

But I warn you not to put too much of your Easter eggs into the "Obama will be as bad as Bush" basket, personally. I think Joshua's right -- I bet I will be forced to start looking at "detail charts" soon, because Obama will hover in the 45-50 percent range unless outside events prove to be either wildly positive or negative.

Joshua [4] -

Bush's presidency was a study in leadership. It's called "How The Vice President Led The Country While Dubya Was On Vacation." Heh.

David [13] -

Not to add that Republicans are still for "do nothing." In all the hyperventilating on the Right over Romneycare... whoops, I mean "Obamacare"... they've proposed exactly NOTHING to take its place. So much for being a party of ideas, eh?

Michale -

OK, the Leno bit was funny. I caught it last night. Happy?

:-)

[Note: new OPW column up, everyone! Check it out!]

-CW

Let me try to understand this: The key incentive for small businesses to support Obamacare was that they would be able to shop for the best deals in health care super-stores—called exchanges. The Administration has had 3 years to set up these exchanges. It has failed to do so.
http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/02/obamacare-incompetence/

Seems to me that Obama and the Democrats were more concerned about just getting something... ANYTHING... on the books and didn't really care whether it would actually HELP anyone....

I believe it's fitting that this abomination will "proudly" wear the name OBAMACare...

Michale

Com'on, guys!! #11 was REALLY funny... :D

Wish I could take the credit for it, but it's hilarious nonetheless... :D

Michale

You mean like how conservatives were for it, before it was an Obama plan?

Yes, EXACTLY like that.. :D

I'm for the ACA only because it's better than option 4, Do Nothing.

So, rising health care costs, longer wait times, a shortage of doctors and an increase in bureaucrat-in-charge health care is "better" than what we had??

On what planet?? :D

Joshua,

... or an example of the proverbial broken clock or blind squirrel. from the air national guard

Falsified documents.....

to the texas rangers

Com'on.. Baseball??? How important is that in the large scheme of things??

to abu ghraib

Nothing more than college hazing... Again,there were more important things than embarrassing a bunch of scumbag terrorists...

to the first round of bailouts,

Which Obama and the Democrats embraced with gusto.. If THAT is an example of "failed leadership", then Obama and the Democrats are TEN TIMES the failure that Bush ever was...

there are too many examples of bush's abject failure to lead.

But in the things that REALLY matter such as, oooohhh I dunno.. life and death..... Bush proved his leadership mettle beyond ANY question...

Seven years w/o a terrorist attack on US Proper, despite hundreds, if not THOUSANDS, of attempts..

Bush's leadership made that happen.. He could have taken the easy way and bowed to DEMOCRAT pressure to coddle terrorists and treat them with kid gloves only to see a 9/11 every other month..

But Bush said "politics be damned" and saved this country in spite of the near treasonous actions of the Democratic Party whose SOLE position was based on nothing but crass Party agenda and nothing more..

Let's be honest here and give credit where credit is due..

Michale

You mean like how conservatives were for it, before it was an Obama plan?

Here's my quick rankings of a few healthcare ideas:

1. Single payer
2. Public option
3. Romney/Obama plan
4. Do nothing

I'm for the ACA only because it's better than option 4, Do Nothing.

But yes, you're right. There were better plans.

-David

The very definition of good leadership...

... or an example of the proverbial broken clock or blind squirrel. from the air national guard to the texas rangers to abu ghraib to the first round of bailouts, there are too many examples of bush's abject failure to lead. based on bush's track record, any part he may have played in obama's foreign policy success is highly unlikely to be anything other than coincidence. there are many dimensions of leadership, and bush excels at very, very few.

perhaps bush's greatest contribution to any success obama may have garnered is that every other country in the world was thanking the stars for someone, anyone other than george w. bush.

~joshua

It's a shame we don't have any lesson from history that might indicate how this will turn out..

Oh wait.... :^/

Michale

I am also constrained to point out that Democrats share as much of the blame for the economy as Bush. It was their pushing and pushing to force banks to loan money to people who couldn't afford it that directly led to the implosion.

Apparently, Democrats are pursuing a course that is the very definition of insanity...

Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-administration-pushes-banks-to-make-home-loans-to-people-with-weaker-credit/2013/04/02/a8b4370c-9aef-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html

Doing the same wrong thing over and over hoping for a different result.. :^/

Michale

“And in a groundbreaking move, the Associated Press, the largest news gathering outlet in the world, will no longer use the term ‘illegal immigrant.’ That is out. No longer ‘illegal immigrant.’ They will now use the phrase ‘undocumented Democrat.’ That is the newest – ‘undocumented Democrat.’”
-Jay Leno

:D

Now THAT's funny!! :D

Michale

Good of the country??

Do you know how I know that ObamaCare is bad for the country??

Because ya'all are very intelligent people and ya'all were against it. Before you were for it. :D

Before it became the Obama/Democrat flagship legislation..

Michale

Good of the country??

See comment number #3...

Interesting that you still think Bush did "good" for the country. To me, it looks like there wasn't much country left after his 8 years in office.

Really??

How bad would it have been under a President Gore where we would have just taken Al Qaeda to court over 9/11..

Or under a President Kerry where we would have totally and utterly decimated our economy to pursue the myth of Human Caused Global Warming (Yet The Planet Us Cooling)??

All things being equal, we made out quite well considering the Democrat alternatives given us..

But I guess if you care more about torture and data mining than the economy ...

Abso-frakin'-loutly...

Because an economy doesn't mean diddley squat if yer dead...

Wouldn't you agree??

Obama has proven beyond ANY doubt that torture and data mining saves American lives...

But hay.. If ya have a problem with them, take it up with Obama, not me.. :D

Michale

Like the Affordable Care Act?

Interesting that you still think Bush did "good" for the country. To me, it looks like there wasn't much country left after his 8 years in office.

But I guess if you care more about torture and data mining than the economy ...

-David

Abso-tively and posi-loutly..

As we see by Obama's actions, those policies ARE effective and DO produce actionable intel..

not his responses to katrina,

As we saw with Sandy, response to natural disasters are best left to STATE authorities.

Apparently, though, it's only REPUBLICAN State authorities that have the competence to respond properly to natural disasters..

irrespective of obama's limitations as a leader, anyone who calls bush's presidency a study in leadership might want to check their breakfast for hallucinogens.

Du auch.. :D

As history shows, Bush made some very unpopular decisions that showed in his low poll numbers.

In the here and now, Obama has proven beyond ANY doubt that those decisions were the RIGHT decisions to make.

Make unpopular decisions for the good of the country?

The very definition of good leadership...

Michale

i assume you're talking about his administration's commitment to torture and data-mining, not his responses to katrina, the 2000 budget surplus, "mission accomplished" or iraq's complete lack of WMD's (much less any connection whatsoever to 9/11). irrespective of obama's limitations as a leader, anyone who calls bush's presidency a study in leadership might want to check their breakfast for hallucinogens.

~joshua

But is it really hysteria???

"Forty years ago, when I began practicing primary care medicine, medical decision-making and its funding were in the hands of patients and their physicians. The only protection patients had lay in the professional ethics of their doctors. In modern terms that sounds pretty skimpy, but think about it for a minute. The first precept was 'Do no harm'. Ask yourself: can you hold your government to that standard?

"I am in my mid-70s and have both the capacity and willingness to care for patients for another decade. But I am retiring. I cannot stand it anymore. More than half of my time in the office is spent filling out forms, writing letters, responding to inquiries, and attending to 'urgent' matters that did not exist 10 years ago. And every year my income is less. At this point I would rather be paid nothing and have the freedom to decide what is right for my patients. ACA is only another straw, but for this tired camel, it will break my back."
-Dr John Curry, Fairfax VA

There is also the FACT that Insurance costs are going to rise sharply once ObamaCare is implemented. This FACT comes from none other than Obama's HHS Secretary...

Over 60% of doctors will be retiring because of ObamaCare. The doctors that remain will scale back or eliminate their Medicaid/Medicare participation.

So, let's put partisan politics aside and address the FACTS.

Is it REALLY "hysteria"??

Or a sobering acknowledgment that ObamaCare is not the savior of health care ya'all are touting it as...

I'm just sayin'...

Michale

As I see it, Obama's numbers will closely mirror Bush's numbers, but for different reasons.

Bush was actually a LEADER and did unpopular things for the good of the country, politics be damned..

Obama is clearly in it for himself and himself only, country be damned. The evidence on this is plentiful and it comes from the Right **AND** the Left... While Obama has absolutely no problem putting Party before Country, it's also very clear that Obama will put Obama before Party...

That's why Obama's numbers will continue to fall. My prediction that Obama's numbers will fall and fall fast came true. This new prediction will also be as accurate..

Michale

~joshua