Republican Party Favorability Sinks to Record Low

[Mayhem]

Poll: Republicans' Handling Of Shutdown Gets Low Marks From 3 Out Of 4 Americans

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/14/republicans-shutdown-poll_n_4098496.html

Nearly three-quarters of Americans disapprove of Republicans' handling of the budget crisis, according to an ABC/Washington Post poll released Monday.

Disapproval of the GOP, which has risen steadily since just before the government shutdown began, is now at 74 percent, up 11 points from late September.

A majority of Americans are also discontented with Democrats' role in the budget negotiations. But disapproval ratings for Democrats in Congress and for President Barack Obama, both of which started at a lower level than disapproval of Republicans in Congress, have remained largely unchanged in the past two weeks. Sixty-one percent of Americans now dislike congressional Democrats' handling of the crisis, while 53 percent dislike Obama's. Those are rises of only 5 points and 3 points, respectively, from before the shutdown began.

Republicans themselves are increasingly negative about their lawmakers. In the latest survey, Americans who identified as Republican were about evenly split on congressional Republicans' performance, with 47 percent giving them a thumbs-down. Sixty-three percent of "very conservative" Republicans, however approve.

Other surveys have found similarly bleak results for the GOP. A Gallup poll last week showed the party's rating at a record low, while an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, also released last week, found that Americans assigned Republicans far more blame for the shutdown. The latter survey also found evidence of an "ideological boomerang” against the GOP, with support rising for a Democratic-controlled Congress, Obama's health care law and an expanded role for government.

The current political atmosphere is reminiscent of that surrounding the government shutdowns in 1995-1996, said pollster Gary Langer, from which he drew a note of caution.

"That result might give some pause to prognosticators who suggest that criticism of the GOP today will spell losses for the party in the 2014 midterm elections, just more than a year off," Langer told ABC. "No such impact seems readily apparent in the 1996 election: Ten months after those shutdowns, Clinton won re-election, but the Republicans held the House and Senate alike. Now, as then, what may matter most is not just today’s blame, but the eventual resolution of the crisis, and the extent of damage done en route."

The ABC/Washington Post poll surveyed 1,010 adults between Oct. 9 and Oct. 13, using live telephone interviews.

 

[Mariahxxx]

if the very conservative republicans were told that a new law was being proposed on All Americans requiring bible study daily, a specific style of dress (khaki's and an blue button down and loafers) and that women couldn't drive or work or leave the house unescorted by an elder, could not speak until spoken to and that the men were free to participate in adultery, women were to be absolutely obedient with the punishment being public death, they would stand in line to vote for the person who proposed such a law.

So why do they want to continue bombing a Utopia like Afghanistan when the Taliban is nearly a carbon copy of their dream existence? minus, of course, the poverty and that silliness of calling God Allah. Don't those savages know that they worship the wrong god? Otherwise it's like fucking paradise!

 

[Rey C.]

I would love to meet the 10% who like it lol

You could meet them during visiting hours at "the home". Probably best to catch them after basket weaving and before they take their meds. They tend to be more lucid then.

 

[Mariahxxx]

or at a tea party rally

 

[Petra]

Check this little gem out. What a clusterfuck.

 

[HappyHapyJoyJoy]

Petra[/URL][/B], post: 7949331, member: 114093"]Check this little gem out. What a clusterfuck.

Yup.

http://c-spanvideo.org/clip/4468570

 

[Straight Shooter]

Check this little gem out. What a clusterfuck.

Via Mediaite

WASHINGTON — Democrats have seized on video of Rep. Chris Van Hollen angrily confronting Republicans on the House floor over changes to the chamber’s rules as proof Republicans purposefully pushed the nation into a government shutdown and crisis over extending the nation’s debt limit.

The Republicans’ decision to alter an obscure procedural rule has enraged Democrats and given them evidence that Republicans have purposefully throw the government into chaos with a shutdown.

Normally, any member of the House can force a vote on legislation which the Senate and House are unable to agree on. Although it is a rarely used mechanism, House Republicans were taking no chances in the days leading up to the shutdown.

Republican leaders were nervous about the possibility that the Senate’s clean spending extension bill would pass the chamber on the strength of Democratic votes — or worse, that it would fail, taking it off the table permanently as a solution.

That concern appears to have driven the decision to change the rules to allow only Majority Leader Eric Cantor to force a vote on the Senate plan.

The House routinely alters its rules for considering legislation. The majority’s control of the Rules Committee makes it possible for them to limit the number and type of amendments that can be considered, the length of debate, and virtually all the other contours of a floor debate.

But the changes to the rules used to block Democrats from forcing a vote on the Senate’s spending plan is not the type of change that is routinely made, and is yet another sign of the Republican leadership’s tenuous control of the chamber.

http://board.freeones.com/showthrea...ing-House-Rules-To-Ensure-Government-Shutdown

 

[Rey C.]

Well, thank you, Dear Leader (Eric Cantor).