Moe Lane » Rasmussen and the quietly rusting Democratic advantage.
As you can see, back in October it was fairly clear that Democrats were enjoying consistent leads over Republicans when it came to how much the public trusted them on various issues. It’s also fairly clear that in most cases, those leads have been savaged. Leading in four categories and tied in one may not sound wonderful; but compared to zero-for-ten that’s not half bad - particularly since it’s looking as if the Democrats are in the process of thoroughly squandering their existing trustworthiness with regard to the economy. The only real disappointment is the government trust numbers (which were much better last month**), but that’s the next project.
What does it mean? Not much, except of course as a helpful reminder that the people who are currently eager to tell you that we’re doomed as a party are not necessarily working from completely accurate data. Hardly surprising: most of those people don’t have your best interests at heart. Or any of your interests at heart, really.
The chart is quite interesting.
The Dem majorities should be ripe for destruction when the elections roll around next year - assuming that the GOP doesn’t simply punt with its usual “we’re not quite as awful as they are” strategy.
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Have you seen whom the NSRC has endorsed already? I’m not optimistic.
I suspect they don’t care. Yes, there is some intent to remain in power, but if they get through all their socialist this and universal that, no conservative will be able to run on a platform of repealing it, or even curtailing it. If a conservative majority attempts to curb it, they’ll get thrown back in the next cycle. Democrats might not retain power, but their programs will be retained.
Incrementally, they win indefinitely, if they get their agenda through quickly enough. There’s no reason to think that with their filibuster proof majority, or by using procedural votes, there is anything that can be done to stop the passage of all this garbage.
Bush was blamed for increasing the deficit, but proposed several plans to reduce it, and he tried to reduce much of it by reforming Social Security. Congress said no to those reforms (or even discussing it), but Bush still gets blamed for the spending.
That’s the game they play. The people only look at the bottom line, without any understanding (or attention paid) to what the over-spending was on: Democrat enacted entitlement programs.
America is now a nation of drunkards, waiting for us to hit the gutter stage; the stage necessary to get to before we recognize we have a problem.
It could be 100+ years before we get there… and at this rate of spending by Congress, that long to pay off our IOUs for this fiscal year alone.
Mrs. du Toit, with all respect, that’s a rewrite of history. Bush created the single biggest entitlement since the Great Society. The government cost under Bush grew at a faster rate than any time over the past fifty years. Bush remained supine during all of it, and never raised a veto pen until the very end in even a half-hearted attempt to slow down the hemorrhaging. And then, as one of his last acts, he signed off on the odious TARP boondoggle.
Neither Bush, nor the GOP as it has been constituted, nor Obama, nor the Dems are going to do much to stop the slide towards budget destroying state socialism in America. I suspect nothing will beyond the collapse of the current financial system, de facto bankruptcy, and probably some form of revolution.
Unless we get the Age of Abundance, but that is another story.