Minus 10: Approval Index for Obama Still in the Dumper & Still Double Digits
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on July 29, 2009
For the last few days, President Obama’s approval index has inched up and down a trifle, but as of today, it is still in negative double-digit territory, at minus 10.
From Rasmussen Reports:
The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern.

Obama's presidential approval index still in negative double digits, at minus 10 | July 29, 2009
Great reading at Big Hollywood this week – check this out:
Frank DeMartini, Big Hollywood: Obama’s Six-Month Report Card
Quick blurb on unemployment from Rush Limbaugh, EIB broadcast on July 29, 2009:
I have a little news here from CNN: Detroit Area Jobless Rate Tops 17%.
“Government report shows unemployment continues to rise in the Motor City. California’s Riverside area also ranks high.” This is CNN. It’s by Ben Rooney, CNNmoney.com. He needs to talk to the TV people over at CNN because they say the recession’s over, but here’s Detroit, 17% unemployment.
There’s been tremendous speculation on both sides of the fence as to why the president’s approval numbers are so low. To help those of you who are too busy supporting your families and paying your mortgages (bless you!), and simply don’t have time to track down all the articles and posts out there, I’ve worked up a nice breakdown by category of articles that I’ve enjoyed reading or are popular reading here. Below are hyper-linked articles addressing the FIVE primary issues political and economic experts say have contributed to Obama’s plummeting approval numbers.
I took the time so you don’t have to… it’s the least I can do for your loyal readership and for recommending the site to your family and friends. It means a lot to me and to other Americans to spread the knowledge about what is happening to America. We can’t let our country and our freedoms be diminished, have our Constitution dismantled and disregarded, incur historic trillion-dollar debts that our children and their children will be paying for. This is the most reckless, fiscally irresponsible administration in all of US history.
There are a zillion more articles on these five topics out there, but you should find a few of interest to read here in this mini-directory. Let freedom ring and God bless America!
New York Times: For Public, Obama Didn’t Fill in Health Blanks Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Cap-N-Trade: Your House Is Not Your Own–UPDATED PJTV: Bill Whittle, Scott Ott, Stephen Green: Does Obama Have A Different Copy of the Constitution Than The Rest of Us? (video) Lloyd Marcus, American Thinker: Who Will President Obama Drum Up Hate Against Next? Huffington Post: Obama Ineffective On The Economy: NYT/CBS News Poll
ObamaCare/Socialized Health Care Issues
Hot Air Green Room: Obamacare would already be law, if not for you stupid Americans
Senate GOP Doctors: Have a Better Plan for Health Care, Not Socialized
Charles Krauthammer, National Review Online: Why Obamacare Is Sinking – You can’t fake health-care nirvana in legislation
Fortune, CNN Money: 5 freedoms you’d lose in health care reform
Frugal Café Blog Zone: “War on Senior Citizens”: Mark Levin Interviews Dr. Betsy McCaughey on ObamaCare Details and Billions, Trillions, and More: CBO Releases Appalling Dollar Amount for Crappy ObamaCare and Dems’ Sheep-herding Health Welfare Program Like Eastern Bloc: Reckless Disregard for Economic & Fiscal Reality and Audience Cracks Up When MO Rep. Carnahan Claims ObamaCare Will Save Money: “If It’s So Good, Why Doesn’t Congress Have to Be on It?” (video) and Michelle Obama’s Shady Involvement in Chicago Hospital’s “Patient Dumping” of the Poor Being Investigated and Bad News: Sen. Feingold Admits What We’ve Suspected All Along: Obama’s “Public” Health Care Plan Meant to Ultimately Push Americans to Single-Payer Health Care
SWAC Girl: Obama-ABC News propaganda machine team up to jam universal health care down Americans’ throats?
Legal Insurrection: Getting Punked On Health Care Reform
The Anchoress, First Things: Science Czars & Healthcare; When Life is devalued…UPDATED
Michelle Malkin: The more he talks about nationalizing health care and spending more money… and Obamacare: Code Blue and Barack Obama speaks the truth! Update: Mayo not okay-o with Obamacare and and The Obamacare horror story you won’t hear and Obamacare bogus statistic of the day and Obamacare bogus statistic of the day, Pt. 2 and Undercover at an Obama health care meet-up and Mobilizing against Obamacare and Americans shifting to the right (Snowe and Collins not listening) and www.facesofgovernmenthealthcare.com and “Administration Is Open to Taxing Health Benefits” and Did Canadacare kill Natasha Richardson?
Steven Crowder, Big Hollywood: Must-See Undercover Exposé of Socialized Healthcare!
Veteran Outrage: Obama lied about the costs of Obamacare!
Verum Serum: New VS Daily Feature on Twitter: Gov Health Horror Story of the Day
nakedEric: Obama Healthcare Preview – “We Won’t Pay To Have You Cured, But We’ll Pay To Have You Killed.”
Pursuing Holiness: Railroaded Into Nationalized Health Care
Matthew Moore, Telegraph.co.uk: Sufferers pull out teeth due to lack of dentists
Clinging to G & G: Our horrible healthcare? A personal experience
Jason Killian Meath, Big Hollywood: Obama’s Health Care ‘Money Pit’
Pesky Emotional Republican: The painful side effects of Obama’s healthcare reform – ”Why not simply ensure that they die faster by denying them costly medical care?“ and ‘You Mean I Could Actually Get *Some* Health Care?’
John Boehner: Republican Chart Outlines House Democrats’ Government Takeover of Health Care
Chris Burgard, Big Hollywood: Dear Mr. President, Please Don’t Kill My Kids
Ztower: More Health Reform Antics: Include Illegal Aliens? – Democrats Say NO, Obama Says NO, Republicans Want To Say Absolutely NO, Dems Didn’t Really Mean “THAT” NO!
Hot Air: DeMint to Obama on health care: How’s that stimulus working out, champ? and Rasmussen: Obama strong disapproval rises; Update: Zogby shows Obama at 48% and Rasmussen: Obama’s presser backfired and The OMB-CBO throwdown and Video: The best part of ObamaCare? Lines! and CBO cost estimate of House health-care bill: A cool trillion over 10 years and Bombshell: CBO chief tells Congress ObamaCare will “significantly expand” federal spending; Report: Bipartisan deal close? and Rasmussen: Majorities believe ObamaCare will raise costs, lower quality of treatment
Family Security Matters: Look Here to See What’s in the Health Care Bill: CHILLING!
Business and Media Institute: CNN Glosses Over Failure of Universal Health Care
Matt Towery, Townhall.com: Americans Are Against the Health Care Proposal
Joseph C. Phillips, Big Hollywood: U.S.A. vs. Canada: The Healthcare Debate
Jim Treacher’s Blog That Is on the Internet: Under Obamacare, old people will have to stop bitterly clinging to their drugs and incisions
Family Security Matters: Look Here to See What’s in the Health Care Bill: CHILLING!
Veronica DiPippo, Big Hollywood: Why Amy Fears Obamacare
John Nolte, Big Hollywood: Will Steven Weber Put His Health Where His Ideology Is?
Why Mommy is a Palin Supporter: Terminally Ill Denied Treatment, Offered Suicide in Oregon
America Watches Obama: Under UK socialized medicine, Disabled children wait up to two years for wheelchairs
Ztower: I’ll See Your Euthanasia And Raise You An Abortion.
The Freedom Diva: Health Care Reform – The Corruption of Medical Ethics
Stop The ACLU: Should We Dare Pelosi to Bring Obamacare to a Vote? and Running Low on Political Capital, Obama in a Rush to Pass Socialist Medicine
John Goodman, Cato’s Letter (pdf): Five Myths of Socialized Medicine
Gary Graham, Big Hollywood: Obama-Care Can Kill You
Ace of Spades HQ: AP Bends the Curve of the Narrative, Admitting Obama Is Kinda Blowing ItCap and Tax/Global Warming Energy Tax Issues
Investor’s Business Daily, IBD Editorials: Waxman-Markey: Man-Made Disaster
Green Hell Blog: India rejects global warming junk science and Obama climate czar accused of law-breaking and Skeptics beating Al Gore: Dem advisors say drop global warming as lead message
Hot Air: Video: Pelosi’s national energy tax and Video Energy Czar Hasn’t Read Cap & Trade, Either
MasterResource: Climate Impacts of Waxman-Markey (the IPCC-based arithmetic of no gain)
Wired, Danger Room, What’s Next in National Security: Army: Sun, Not Man, Is Causing Climate Change (Updated)
Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters: Gallup Poll Editor: Al Gore Is Losing Global Warming Debate
Doug Powers, Michelle Malkin: Eco-hypocrite of the week
Jeffrey Jena, Big Hollywood: Beware the Earth Day Scam
Radio Vice Online: No More Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming officially rebranded “Climate Change” and My goodness, the Sun determines the earth’s temperature?
Heritage Foundation: Son of Waxman-Markey: More Politics Makes for a More Costly Bill
National Black Chamber of Commerce: NBCC Study Finds Waxman-Markey Reduces GDP by $350 Billion: New study finds Waxman-Markey could cost 2.5 million U.S. jobs each year through 2030 and reduce earnings
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Cap-and-Trade Energy Tax Bill… We’re in the Middle of Pretending to Save the Planet, Baby and Polar Bear Numbers Surge to 50-Year High, Obama’s Approval Rating Plunges to New Dismal Low
Barking Moonbat: Where Is Al Gore? July 22: Worst snowstorm in 50 years hits Buenos Aires
Michelle Malkin: Here is the cap-and-tax “placeholder:” Where’s the fine print? and Waxman wants Blue Dogs to heel, signals committee bypass and Cap-and-Tax Watch: Protests across the country and Cap-and-tax job loss chart of the day; Plus: A Senate reading assignment and Cap-and-Tax 8 Watch: Follow the money and Colorado’s Democrat governor refuses to endorse cap and tax and Unshocked by Gary Locke and Chinagate-tainted Gary Locke “sails through” confirmation hearing and The Chinagate/Buddhist temple cash skeletons in Gary Locke’s closet
Founding Bloggers: Nothing Says Global Warming Like 59 Degrees On July 1st!
An Honest Climate Debate: Brisbane has its coldest October morning since 1976
All American Blogger: US government’s climate con-job | Obama administration “report” on climate change is deceitful, scare-mongering, bogus science
Mofo Politics: European Union President believes climate change is a myth
Walter E. Williams, AMinority View, WND: How much cooling is enough?
Dirty Democrats: Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Says US Should Pay For China’s Emissions
Beltway Snark: China’s Emission Problems All Our Fault
NEOAVATARA: Why We Need A New Path On Global Climate Change
Dwight Schultz, Big Hollywood: Obama’s EPA Ignores Inconvenient Truths
Prison Planet: IPCC Scientists Caught Producing False Data To Push Global Warming
Heritage Foundation: Beware of Cap and Trade Climate Bills
Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Kill Polar Bears, Drink Coke to Save the Planet!
Sister Toldjah: Waxman: Not supporting Obama’s agenda means you are “against America”Leadership/Ideology/Constitution Issues
Politico: Limbaugh Lashes Out – Rush Says Obama has ‘chip on…shoulder’
The Substratum: Obamian Slip: When The Mouth Speaks Truth Before Brain Can Stop
PJTV, Instavision: Taking the Fight to Your Local Congressman & Organizing Tea Parties in a Hippie Town (video)
Patriot Burr: “Remaking America” Into What?
The Great Illuminator: Even Claire McCaskill Calls Obama Walpin Firing Illegal
Hot Air: The Greenroom: WH attributes Walpin’s firing to dementia and How to write a NYT article on an Obama controversy and Obama playing hardball on Walpin as key Dem calls foul and Obama cronyism: Going after AmeriCorps IG on behalf of contributor; Update: A Michelle Obama connection? and Obama has fired 2 IGs in 2 weeks, leashed another and White House: We’ll cut off criticism of Porkulus
Steven Crowder, Big Hollywood: Obama the Pee Wee!
Scott’s Slant on Politics: A False Messiah
Dick Morris: The Declaration of Independence Has Been Repealed
Stop the ACLU: President Pantywaist Reappears In Telegraph
Victoria Jackson, Big Hollywood: President Obama and the “C” Word
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: An America That Tortures
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times: Obama Takes 100th-Day Hoopla and Runs With It
Jeffrey Jena, Big Hollywood: Obama Tortures Me Every Day
Hot Air: Video: Don’t make us into France, Mr. President and Another deadline missed: Obama’s Gitmo task force won’t report on time tomorrow; Update: Delayed six months and The rank dishonesty of the Obama administration and Oh my: Obama drafts executive order to detain terrorists indefinitely without trial and Joe the Plumber: Obama’s Answer Was “Right Out of Karl Marx’s Mouth” (Video) and Joe the Plumber Weighs in on Debate: “Obama’s Proposal Scares Me Because It’s Just One More Step Towards Socialism”
Tarheel Pundit: Here a Czar, There a Czar, Everywhere a Czar, Czar
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: How many Czars does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Peace and Freedom Promises: If you had told me some of these Obama stories three months ago I would have said “impossible!”
GoodTimePolitics: The Dirty Dozen: 12 New Obama Administration Policies That Undermine Civil Society
HotMES: Obama, you’re a politician, it’s always about politics!
Free America: President Pantywaist
Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian: Is Obama losing his political magic?
The Angry Black Woman: Of Patriotism, Joe Six-Pack, and Real Americans
Myrna Sokoloff, Big Hollywood: ‘The Smile’: A Perfect Presidential Nickname
Michelle Malkin: Fraud in Obama’s White House? AmeriCorps & Cronie Scandal Unfolds, Taxpayer Money Funds Left-wing Groups, Inspector General Fired for Uncovering Misused Funds and Obama’s transparency policy: Don’t let the sunshine in and Obama’s shamnesty distraction and Inside Obama’s meeting with 9/11 and Cole bombing families and Sticker wars: Shattering the myth of Hope and Change and Nice work if you can get it and The “Going Galt” phenom spreads; Whoopi goes on anti-tax rant and How Obama blocked the wealth generators in Pueblo, Colorado
Tim Slagle, Big Hollywood: Democrats — Why so Unhappy?
Free Republic: Socialism Coming Back To Haunt U.S.
RedState: Whoops… Entitlement Programs Collapsing Faster than Expected
Charles Winecoff, Big Hollywood: A-holes and Insects – or Mother Nature Doesn’t Care If You’re a Good Liberal
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: WHITE Police officers are ’stupid’ and ‘racist’ according to Obama
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Rush Limbaugh: Obama on Edge as Magic Fades; DeMint Hits Nerve with “Waterloo” and February Was a Picnic Compared to How Things Are Now: Mark Levin, ‘Liberty and Tyranny,’ & Obama’s Socialism
Burt Prelutsky, Big Hollywood: Principles? Leftists Don’t Need No Stinking PrinciplesRace/Prof. Henry Gates/Cambridge Police Issue
GayPatriot: Obama Needs to Learn from Himself About Apologizing
Patterico’s Pontifications: The Officer Didn’t Stereotype Henry Louis Gates — Henry Louis Gates Stereotyped the Officer
Hot Air Green Room: We Need The Truth, Not Beer and Apologies
Michael McGruther, Big Hollywood: We’ve All Felt a Little ‘Profiled’
Founding Bloggers: (VIDEO) African American Officer Regarding President Obama: “I Supported Him, I Voted For Him. I Will Not Again.”
Goodtimepolitics: Police officers across the country have a message for Obama
Steven Crowder, Big Hollywood: Lonewolf Diaries: Arresting Black People is Racist, You Pigs!
Michelle Malkin: ‘Racial Harmony Through Beer’ initiative kicks off Thursday and Stuck on stupid(ly) and The anti-police bigotry of the Left and The “Don’t taze me, bro” moment of Henry Louis Gates
The Gun Toting Liberal: President Obama Torques Police Officers Off Nationwide By Playing The Race Card In Harvard Professor’s Disorderly Conduct Arrest
Gadget’s Blog: News Flash: Obama not really black, just full of crap.
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Beer Won’t Solve It: Obama’s Lack of Leadership & Mistakes in Not Apologizing for His Controversial Gates Comments (video) and Black Cambridge Cops Back Crowley’s Actions – Kelly King: “Charges Are Bogus, I Won’t Vote for Obama Again” (video)
Sister Toldjah: Why “Gatesgate” is a losing situation for Obama – and black youths (UPDATE: POLICE RELEASE TAPES) and Why won’t President Obama shut up about the Gates arrest?
American Thinker: If Obama Were My Friend
Autographed Letter Signed: Thursday Stitch N’ Bitch: It’s All Black and White To Me
The Smoking Gun: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Police Report -”I’ll speak with your mama outside,” Harvard prof told Cambridge cops
Boston Herald: White House qualifies Obama remark about arrest
Gateway Pundit: Bill Cosby “Shocked” At Dear Leader’s Attack on Boston Police Officer
Jan LaRue, American Thinker: Obama’s ‘Recalibrated’ Insult
Andrew Breitbart, Big Hollywood: The President’s Accidental Gift on Race
Free Republic: Obama pays parking tickets 17 years late
The Pugnacious Irishman: Acting StupidlyUS Economic/Unemployment Issues
The Weekly Standard: Know-Nothing-in-Chief – There’s no evidence Obama has even a sketchy grasp of economics.
Gateway Pundit: As Nation Suffers– Pelosi-Reid Congress Increase Travel Costs By 50% During Recession and Brilliant!… 134 GOP House Members Ask President Obama: “Where Are the Jobs?” (Video) and Late to the Party — Rich Obama Supporters Realize He’s a Class Warrior
Rasmussen Reports: Number Who Says U.S. Heading in Right Direction Slips to Lowest Level Since February
New York Times: Obama Poll Sees Doubt on Budget and Health Care
MSNBC: Poll: Public concerned about size of deficit, NBC/WSJ survey also shows concern over intervention in private sector
Democratic Underground: In Poll, Obama Is Seen as Ineffective on the Economy
Doug Powers, Hot Air Green Room: And These Are the People Who Are Going to Make Health Care Cheaper?
John Nolte, Big Hollywood: Hollywood to America: Trickle-Down Economics Works Only For Us
The Other McCain, Hot Air: A Liberal Lecture on Economics (and Why It Won’t Work)
Innocent Bystanders: The Stimulus Package that Forgot to Stimulate Anything
Kevin Hassett, Bloomberg: California’s Nightmare Will Kill Obamanomics
Breitbart.com: Rising unemployment accelerates foreclosure crisis
Hot Air: New White House spin: Stimulus not designed to … stimulate; Update: Obama’s stimulus speech and AIP Column: Obama’s Utopia and Dem control of Congress spikes junket travel 50% and Obama, the reverse Reagan and New GOP ad: The stimulus isn’t working
Neoavatara: Failure You Can Believe In: Obama Stimulus II
RedState: Whoops… Entitlement Programs Collapsing Faster than Expected
Jim Blazsik: The real reason behind the economic meltdown – government (particularly Democrats) and Barack’s Economic Plan – the people giveth, and the government taketh away…
Urban Grounds: Tom Golisano: Goodbye New York and Failed Democrat Policies
Plumb Bob Blog: Checkin’ on the Kids: How’s That Stimulus Going?
186 k per second: Charts and Graphs – Obama’s Stimulus / Jobs Disaster
Scared Monkeys: Obamanomics: US Unemployment Rate Climbs to a 26 Year High at 9.5%
Confederate Yankee: “The Obama Administration is the Most Fiscally Irresponsible in the History of the U.S.”
Michelle Malkin: New unemployment numbers: Quick, blame Bush! and Sen. Coburn: Our Watchdog
Jim Blazsik: “We Misread How Bad The Economy Was” – Joe Biden
The Other McCain: The Monstrosity From Hell That Will Destroy the American Economy
Clinging to G & G: 120 Days After and the Stimulus Package is a Failure
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Where’s the Money, Obama?? Coburn Reveals 100 Instances of Gov’t Waste of Stimulus Package Money and The Obamas’ Personal Debt vs. Obama’s Demand That Americans Cut Back and Yet Another Trillion Dollars of Taxpayer Money… Gregg Warns That Obama’s Bailouts Will Bankrupt America and Liberal MSM Headlines: Obama’s Effectiveness on Economy Crumbling, More Americans Negative on His Spending… Colin Powell Wrong about Taxpayers Wanting “Big Government”
RomanticPoet’s Weblog: Biden With the Biggest Understatement of the Year: ‘We misread economy’




Vicki,
Have you heard the announcement that Obama made this morning that may change his poll numbers dramatically?
A young woman with a genuis IQ has been hired to work as a White House advisor reporting directly to President Obama after offering what some are described as miraculously inspired strategy, which she claims will solve our economic problems, put people back to work, solve global warming, and homelessness.
President Obama said that this woman is a contemporary equal to Einsteim, easily ranking as the smartest woman or man in the administration, and on the planet. White Houses sources say that she may even be the intellectual equal of Obama, himself. Obama says that’s irrational exuberance; sources should calibrate their words. The president excitedly explained that if people would watch the YOU TUBE clip of the CNN report, prepared with steno tablet and pen for note taking, that the clip would be a teachable moment that would dramatically impact the hearts of the viewers.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxe_kwc8klw
ROFL!!!
I’m still scratching my head over “silkworms”, though…
Thanks so much for the laugh – I needed it!
Einstein said “the definition of insanity is repeating the same thing over, and over again while expecting different results”.
The present administration could be considered insane, along with congress.