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Are the Wheels Coming Off?
Part Three of Three By Dave Andrusko
The difference for pro-lifers was that we also knew that Obama and the Abortion Establishment were like star-struck lovers. Watch candidate Obama as he talks to the public policy arm of Planned Parenthood and you can see it was a love-in. (Go to http://stoptheabortionagenda.com where Obama makes it clear that abortion would be part of health care "reform.") ObamaCare is a albatross that pro-abortion Democrats cannot escape. The public rejects it as policy, but also the way--the process--in which it was muscled through without the public's involvement, let alone consent. But if we never had the wool pulled over our eyes, clearly tens of millions of Americans did. And as they begin to see more clearly, they are rejecting pro-abortion President Obama in numbers that grow larger virtually every day. We talked on Monday about TIME columnist Mark Halperin, who threw Obama under the bus and then backed over him several times for good measure. He wrote, "And that sentiment [that Obama's decisions "are causing harm"] is spreading. Many members of the general public appear deeply skeptical of Obama's capacity to turn things around, especially, but not exclusively, those inclined to dislike him -- Tea Partyers and John McCain voters, but also tens of millions of middle-class Americans, including quite a few who turned out for Obama in 2008." More bad news today--an avalanche, actually. A new poll conducted by Kellyanne Conway found that "Fifty-six percent of women consider the health care reform law a failure, while 29 percent view it as a success." Women were unhappy with lots of other things, according to the poll (thus the headline "Poll: Women see Obama 'failure'"), but they are not our issues. There's more. "Hope has turned to doubt and disenchantment for almost half of President Barack Obama's supporters," we read at Bloomberg News. "More than 4 of 10 likely voters who say they once considered themselves Obama backers now are either less supportive or say they no longer support him at all, according to a Bloomberg National Poll conducted Oct. 7-10. Three weeks before the Nov. 2 congressional elections that Republicans are trying to make a referendum on Obama, fewer than half of likely voters approve of the president's job performance." And worst of all "Republicans maintain a substantial advantage over Democrats among likely voters in Gallup's generic ballot for Congress -- in both lower- and higher-turnout scenarios -- fueled in part by the GOP's strong showing among independents," according to Gallup's Frank Newport. "Among voters Gallup estimates to be most likely to vote at this point under either a higher- or lower-turnout scenario, Republicans maintain substantial double-digit advantages. In Gallup's higher-turnout scenario, Republicans lead 53% to 41%. In Gallup's lower-turnout scenario, Republicans lead 56% to 39%." This is a massive margin. No wonder Obama looks for new villains each and every day to blame for his predicament. Too bad he doesn't look in the mirror. Please send your comments on Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha |
Okay,
you and I haven't "lost our faith," or "grown despondent," or
been "shocked" by the radical disconnect between the promises of
candidate Obama and the performance of President Obama. We knew
from 2007 that this man was (to borrow a saying from Texas) all
hat and no cattle. To switch metaphors, like a pitcher signed
out of college and rushed to the Major Leagues, what worked for
Obama against equally inexperienced batters had no chance
against veteran big league hitters.