Washington Insiders: Less Popular Than Ever!
From the good people at Pew: The American people are even less fond of Washington insiders than they were in 2007.
The public expresses mixed views of presidential candidates who have extensive Washington, D.C. experience -- 26% say they would be more likely to support such a candidate, while about as many (25%) say they would be less likely.
This is a change from 2007, when 35% of people said they would be more likely to support a candidate who has spent a long time in Washington; 15% said they would be less likely.
Maybe that's because of stuff like this:
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Unfortunately this means nothing as these same people will overwhelmingly reelect incumbents.
My thoughts exactly. Beat me to it, Jeff.
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Of course we are. We elected another one in 2008 expecting different results. We'll be even more pissed off after 2012 when we reelect him again!
Wait, I thought Obama was a community organizer from the streets. Are you saying that he sold out when he got picked up by a major label?
In my estimation, the Washington politician who started as a community organizer is the insidiest of the insiders. It means they were launched out of the birth canal at the seat of big government.
Look, just because a guy has never had a job that wasn't somehow the product of government largesse doesn't make him some kind of politically-connected Washington insider.
reelect him again?
That's how much reelecting we're going to do.
We're going to keep reelecting him again and again. Forever.
We'll never shut that door closed.
HuffPo writes an article about Citizens United that is intellectually honest.
Even if there are criticisms to be had in the CU decision (I'm not necessarily advocating that there are because I agree whole heartedly that CU was a huge win for free speech), the route the left has taken, with their cheap, intellectually lazy bumper sticker slogans about how "KORPORAYSHUNZ ARE NOT PEEPLE!!11one11!!!eleventy!!" is, well, cheap and intellectually lazy (much like their entire political philosophy though I digress). The author acknowledges that they need to do something about their intellectual laziness.
As expected, the commentary goes full retard and continues with the exact same intellectual laziness the author chides them over.
The author acknowledges that they need to do something about their intellectual laziness.
If they weren't intellectually lazy, would they still be Progressives?
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Does the deer eventually eat the cat?
Sort of. He licks his head until it's small enough, then he bites it off.
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a kitty-cat?
Depends. How raspy is your tongue?
Not very. Then again, I'm not a deer.
The cat looks miserable. Which is understandable.
That is Warty, right? Cute sweater. It goes with the crazy eyes.
I thought this was the only known picture of Warty. I don't think Sweater Man is the same guy.
What's more interesting is that Warty knits those sweaters himself from the hair of his previous cats.
No, you idiot, those are my furs.
I kinda' always pictured you like this.
I was at a beer tasting event over the weekend and saw a dude wearing a t-shirt with a Sasquatch and the words "I Believe." That plus the dudes in homebrew t-shirts and I was tempted to namedrop Steve Smith, just in case.
I Believe
Yes, that's more or less accurate.
So this card is accurate?
These polls make me yawn. If the public hates these politicians so much, why keep reelecting them?
Also, I hate reading about how the majority of youth say they like Obama personally, but hate his policies.
""These polls make me yawn. If the public hates these politicians so much, why keep reelecting them?""
Exactly.
If you want to see what people really think, make the polls in-state about their elected officials and aggregate the data. I bet they would have an approval rating of around 52%.