Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on June 18, 2009

Liberal media reports Americans have negative opinions of Obama's economic plans for nation

Pres. Barack Obama’s popularity numbers continue to drop. The “honeymoon” is about over.

I can say this with confidence, because of today’s headlines in the LIBERAL mainstream media newspaper headlines.

Knock me over with a feather… finally, a bit of candor from the media in appraising Obama’s performance. More people are becoming increasingly worried and negative about his economic deficits and wild overspending than they have been. An increasing number of Americans have no confidence in Obama’s plan for America’s economic recovery, and some believe that he does not even have a solid plan, that he seems to be making it up as he goes along. If HuffPo headlines even a trace of a negative thought about POTUS, you KNOW it’s getting worse for BHO.

Here are just a few links and headlines from the liberal press, those that normally ignore or gloss over Pres. Obama’s missteps, overreaches, and mistakes:

Huffington Post Headline: Obama Ineffective On The Economy: NYT/CBS News Poll
New York Times Headline: Obama Poll Sees Doubt on Budget and Health Care
MSNBC Headline: Poll: Public concerned about size of deficit, NBC/WSJ survey also shows concern over intervention in private sector
Democratic Underground Headline: In Poll, Obama Is Seen as Ineffective on the Economy

From Say Anything:

Obama seems to be losing the economic debate right now. Apparently, blaming everything that’s wrong on Bush while simultaneously spending the national budget into even deeper black holes than it was in before isn’t a sound political strategy.

According to the Times’ poll, 52% of Americans think the government shouldn’t be trying to stimulate the economy by spending money and should instead be focusing on reducing deficits. A full 60% of Americans feel that Obama has no plan to reduce budget deficits.

From Wall Street Journal poll:

When asked what the most important economic issue facing the country is, 24% cited the deficit, vs. just 11% who named health care.

There was also support for the Democratic push to let people sign up for a public health-care plan that would compete with private companies, one of the toughest issues in the health-care debate. Three in four people said a public plan is extremely or quite important. But when told the arguments for and against the plan, a smaller portion, 47%, agreed with arguments in support of the plan, with 42% agreeing with the arguments against it.

At the same time, nearly half the participants said it was very or somewhat likely that their employer would drop private coverage if a public plan were available. As for how to pay for the package, estimated at more than $1 trillion over 10 years, the public favors proposals to require all Americans to get insurance, to raise taxes on taxes on the rich and, to a lesser extent, to require all but the smallest businesses to offer insurance or pay into a fund.

Guess Colin Powell misjudged the American people, as he was quoted just last month by the Boston Globe:

“Americans do want to pay taxes for services,” he told his audience. “Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less.”

There is nothing particularly unusual about Democrats deprecating conservatism or endorsing big government, but these comments didn’t come from a Democrat. The speaker was Colin Powell, who claims to be a Republican.

There are times when party loyalty asks too much, JFK once said, but for Powell there rarely seems to be a time when it doesn’t. Though he owes every lofty position he has held – national security adviser, four-star general, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, secretary of state – to GOP presidents, Republicans perpetually appear to rub him the wrong way: especially the conservatives who constitute the party’s base.

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Powell’s antipathy to the GOP’s Reaganite roots has gone beyond the point of reflection. What kind of Republican, after all, preaches that Americans “do want to pay taxes for services” and “are looking for more government in their life, not less”? (The opposite is true: In a nationwide poll last month, 62 percent of respondents said they prefer smaller government and lower taxes; only 28 percent preferred more services and higher taxes.) What kind of Republican calls John McCain “my beloved friend” and acknowledges that he “would be a good president” – then turns around and endorses the most liberal Democrat ever nominated for the White House?

Republicans are in the midst of a debate over how best to rebuild their party, and there are honest differences over what Republicanism means. But there are also limits. Powell may believe that embracing bigger government, higher taxes, and Obama is the formula for success, but most Republicans don’t. Most Democrats, on the other hand, do. If party loyalty asks too much, maybe it’s time for Powell to switch.

UPDATE, July 4, 2009: NObama Blog: Colin Powell airs doubts on Obama agenda

Additional:
Michelle Malkin: Bully boy Rahm puts screws on media execs and Most transparent administration ever adopts Bush visitor log policy and Sen. Coburn: Our Watchdog and Members of Congress look like their budgets and Bailoutmania: Not “permanent.” Just forever… and Tim Geithner is a joke in China, too and Feds extend Crap Sandwich to life insurers and Barney Frank has a snit fit and The Colin Powell endorsement: Triumph of hope over reality
Slublog: Sacrifice, Obama Style
Ken Blackwell, Big Hollywood: Dreams – or Nightmares – From Obama’s Father?
GayPatriot: Obama & Palin: Blank Slates on Which “Journalists” Project Their Biases
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: Bush Speaks
Teh Resistance Blog: Like a Crackwhore with a Stolen Mastercard
GayPatriot: If Arlen Specter Had Voted Against the “Stimulus”…
Hot Air: Obama’s economy? and How to write a NYT article on an Obama controversy and The Ed Morrissey Show: King Banaian and White House: We’ll cut off criticism of Porkulus and Great news: Obama names Biden stimulus czar
Scared Monkeys: Colin Powell Suddenly has Doubts on Obama Agenda … Americans Like Taxes … Can’t Afford Taxes
Legal Insurrection: For Crying Out Loud: “Barack Obama Deficit-Slayer”
Obama Pundit: How’s That Stimulus Working Out?
Washington Post: Recovery’s Missing Ingredient: New Jobs
Cultural Gadfly: Where has the money gone?
The K Ryan James Blog: Hopenchange: A transparent lack of transparency
Jim Blazsik: Barack’s Economic Plan – the people giveth, and the government taketh away…
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Rep. Alan Grayson: Who Is Responsible for Monitoring the Losses Incurred by the Federal Reserve? | Hearing Conducted May 12, 2009 (video) and Where’s the Money, Obama?? Coburn Reveals 100 Instances of Gov’t Waste of Stimulus Package Money and VP Biden Says to Expect “Scamming & Waste” of Stimulus Money on His Watch: Billions at Stake, Bring in Wile E. Coyote
The Daily Danet: “Disoriented” and “confused” Obama relies on NYTimes to omit details in Walprin firing.
Random-American: Biden says ‘everyone guessed wrong’ on the economic stimulus
NObama Blog: Colin Powell just lost what little respect I had left for him

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