I really do think the Democrats would have a lock on election success if only Obama would say publicly that drinking Drano(hemlock?) is a bad idea.
For the latest on that score, check this out:
Most Americans say they back a plan that would allow certain illegal immigrants to stay in the country, but support for the idea slips when President Barack Obama’s name is attached to the question, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Sixty-one percent of Americans supported Obama’s plan — which shields some undocumented immigrants from deportation — when they were not told Obama had taken the action, according to the poll released Wednesday. While half of Republicans rejected the plan when described this way, 42 percent of Republicans supported it.
Told that the idea was Obama’s, though…and this happened:
Support fell to 54 percent overall, with only 31 percent of Republicans supporting it and 62 percent opposing the measures.
I guess that the fact that almost a third of Republicans still managed to hang on to their view exceeds my expectations. But a 20 percent swing attributable only to the horror at lining up with the Kenyan Moooslim Socialist Usurper is a measure of the triumph of the worst elements in our polity. They’ve managed to make agreement with even the most mild of sensible ideas an existential horror for too many. (See criminal justice reform for another reminder.)
As long as that prevails (and it looks like it will for quite a while) we’ve got problems. And the urgent need to elect a Democrat to the Presidency this November.
Just Some Fuckhead, Tone Police
Alright, I’ll be keeping an eye on things here. Keep it tonal.
Villago Delenda Est
Near.
Sheriff.
‘Nuff said!
redshirt
Obama: Please take deep, clean, fulfilling breaths every 10 seconds at the minimum
27% of Americans asphyxiate.
bystander
Unfortunately, if Hillary or Sanders were POTUS and advanced similar policies, the disapproval numbers associated with their names would only be slightly better. Invading a foreign nation and plunging the country into decades of war that have cost thousands of lives and countless billions is real leadery leadership and no executive orders were needed.
Brachiator
Very good illustration of how Obama Derangement Syndrome warps perception.
Benw
@Just Some Fuckhead, Tone Police: sorry, I’m tone deaf.
JPL
The poll is not surprising, considering what happened to Common Core.
Today I spotted a Republican car. It had two bumper stickers, one, freedom doesn’t mean free stuff and the other global warming is a hoax. it kinda made me feel icky just seeing it.
SiubhanDuinne
@Brachiator:
Republicans reject ideas they agree with when Obama’s name is attached. Democrats may be taken aback when we hear of a Republican espousing something we agree with, but our reaction is generally of the “stopped clock/blind squirrel” variety.
Mike J
@JPL: The two I saw yesterday were “I ♥ fossil fuels” and “The earth isn’t your mother”.
Davebo
You left out a somewhat important part of that piece.
As opposed to..
Far be it from me to defend Republicans but it’s quite possible a lot of them oppose it being accomplished by executive action as opposed to legislation.
A Ghost To Most
Ignorance can be fixed; willful ignorance, not so much.
JPL
Roadblock has been taken down and reporters are on the way to the refuge..
should have put OT
Mnemosyne
Completely, 100 percent off topic and totally bragging, but … you cynics would probably say that I should have slapped the co-writer of “it’s a small world” when I met him, but he’s such a sweet guy that you wouldn’t have been able to do it, either. I think he still believes in that song 100 percent.
JPL
@Mnemosyne: i still love that song..
pacem appellant
Why can’t we just say that Obama said that “that drinking Drano is a bad idea.” The right isn’t terribly interested in the truth. Wanna bet they don’t bother looking up the citation until enough of their electorate is ill, or dead?
JPL
Here’s a link to the twitter feed that I’m reading.. about the terrorists in Oregon..
link
JPL
If the siege of public property is over, surely, the right will credit McCain, cuz can’t ever admit the Obama administration is in charge.
dogwood
@JPL:
Maybe srv is your neighbor.
JPL
@dogwood: Could be since there is a neighborhood bigot, but I thought every neighborhood had a bigot or two.
Calouste
OT: Trump has just replied to Cruz’s challenge for a debate by saying that he will debate him once he has proven to be eligible for the presidency. I think that Trump running his own shows opposite the RNC sponsored clown shows is at it is going to be for the rest of the primaries, and that most likely Trump won’t “debate the Democratic candidate either.
Chyron HR
@Davebo:
Sure, some of them could be guided by their long-standing principled opposition to executive orders that started in January, 2009.
dogwood
@Calouste:
I think I would be fine if Trump refused to debate the Democratic candidate. He turns everything into a colossal circus, and debates are already a mini-circus. Only real political junkies think debates matter. Public opinion measuring winners and losers in debates isn’t necessarily reflected in the outcome of elections.
raven
Gilmore is ripping the Vets charade!
Eric NNY
I think you need to check that math. 11 percent swing among Rpugs. 42% to 31%.
Davebo
@Chyron HR: Just saying.
While I realize there’s no possibility of comprehensive immigration reform in the near, or possibly far future I would feel more comfortable with this laudable goal being accomplished legislatively. Because of the near total impossibility of that happening I support the EO approach but it’s possible some on the right who may support the goal wouldn’t.
That and the word “support” wasn’t capitalized in the linked story which leads us into the whole ellipsis debate.
Zinsky
Republicans would charge Obama with practicing medicine without a license if he cured cancer.
BTW – the picture of Socrates taking the hemlock used to be on the banner of The Agonist webpage, an old blog that has fallen on hard times.
Paula
Some Democratic senators have told him to stop deportations altogether.
Villago Delenda Est
@Davebo: They had no problem with “executive action” when a deserting shitstain was in the White House.
J R in WV
@srv:
Toxic to whom>? If you’re sensitized to reality, then reality is toxic. Like Republicans, for example.
I dunno why you bother us.
heckblazer
@Davebo: Still not an entirely rational response. If Congress only allocates enough money to deport X number of undocumented immigrants, and X is smaller than the total number of undocumented immigrants, the executive unavoidably has to decide who to deport.
Momus
Well, late to the party again. But, I must add that you, Mr. Levenson, must have been somewhat livid about this news as you failed to provide the attribution for the painting. So, I shall, in part, Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, but no date, as Sir Kenneth Clark in his The Romantic Rebellion doesn’t supply a firm date, but only suggests that it was done between 1780 and the Revolution.