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So many numbers to digest here. Right at 50 with Indy's...the approval from repubs seems to high at 30 in his poll (not that I personally trust CBS to much)...all in all I'd say the 57 is about right, somehwere in the mid 50's.

All the right direction, wrong direction seem pretty good to me....and of course Congress as they usually do polls real low.

I can't beleive 7 percent of you are totally insane though thinking coverage of palin has been easier........yikes, I hope none of you are my neighbors. Do you also think bats turn into vampires?

Obviously there is a lot of feeling that the economy is not doing well, but there is still close to an even split on BO's approval regarding the economy. I guess still a lot of blaming W. But you have to think if and when unemployment passes 10% BO will take a hit for it. After that, if it passes 10.8, the monthly high since WW2, that should raise lots of eyebrows too. Not that I am hoping for a lot of people to lose their jobs. But given the policies of this administration, I am expecting it.

Conservatives couldn't write a better script for an over-reaching lib pres.

Cap and trade.
Lets tax your health benefits.
Massive stimulus that doesn't stimulate anything, just creates even more massive deficits.
A surgeon general nominee who thinks doctors should not make a profit.
Firing an Inspector General in violation of the law BO sponsored in the Senate.
Trying to criminalize decisions made by the last administration.

I can't wait until the grown-ups are in charge again.

57 seems about right to me.

Mike, I hope Republicans decide to run on those last three in your list - nobody cares about any of those. Now, the others may have some traction. IF something becomes law that taxes health benefits. Though I think Dems will get into more trouble if they don't pass anything at all. And I'd be careful writing off the stimulus just yet when only 10% of the funds have gone out. You sound like extreme liberals who wrote the surge off when all the troops weren't yet deployed. Now, obviously he will get some blame for the economy eventually but as long as there is some kind of turn around (from whatever height) before next November the midterms will be a huge disappointment to the GOP.

And Palin is still toast.

@conspiracy

Hey I am glad to see you admit Obama is an extreme liberal since he oe opposed the surge, even after it was successful, not just before!

You know how the people are, they want everything, but don't want to pay for it. If they start taxing health benefits, cap and trade gets passed and people start paying more....its bad news for the Dems. Are you seeing all the tax increases by the states? They are putting taxes on everything from cok,e to nail polish, etc...its getting out of control and there is going to be a backlash against big g'ment.

On Obama's so-called stimulus, sorry, but you cannot spend your way out of debt, if your fat, do you eat more to lose weight? All he has done is inflate the deficit to record levels...and if he starts putting fees on business and passing health care, etc, we could see unemployment go into the mid teens.

You guys on the left better get out of everyone's pockets or your going to find yourself out of power real quick.

I was against it. I was wrong and so was Obama. The point stands with regard to patience.

@conspiracy

A stimulus pckage designed to not spend the bulk of the money for two years is not stimulus....tell those who are out of work, losing there homes and who cannot pay there bills due to lack of work to be patient!

My issues here is that we already had a formula we know worked for reversing a severe recession like this. The example was 1981 and what Reagan did....Obama took the oppositte approach, he took the FDR approach which many beleive worsened and prolonged the Great Depression and not until WW2 did it end. G'ment does not have the capacity to end the recession, so public works programs and pet projects from politicians won't serve any purpose, but to make g'ment bigger.

So to a lot of us Obama is playing liberal politics....because there is no sane reason to ignore a formula we know works in favor of one that many beleive will lead to inflation due to more g'ment spending, money the g'ment simply does not have. Again, if your fat, you do not eat more, you eat less....the g'ment shoud be spending half of what it is now and cutting taxes on consumers and business....that is how you grow an economy, building a bridge does not grow the economy. Its populism at its worst.

So its not really valid to compare a military strtegy of increaisng troops with a plan of action to combat a recession.

You are talking about ideological differences. Those are fine. I'm talking about making premature conclusions before all resources have been put in place. As always we shall see.

Hmmm, on this one I cannot agree, because the country alrady had a formula in place to combat a recession that is proven. So by taking the oppositte approach its reasonable to expect the oppositte result.

I guess I could be wrong, I guess maybe for the first time ever g'ment debt spending will help, but living in NV I am safe to say, I wouldn't be ton it.