One more reason...

Want to know why I'll never support Obama? Well, here's yet one more reason to add to the ever-growing list. click here

Surprising Polls

I took a glance at realclearpolitics.com just a few minutes ago and was really quite surprised. President Bush has long been scarred by low poll numbers, but the RCP average has gone up since the last time I remember checking, unless my memory serves me incorrectly. I recall looking and seeing Congress tied with the President at 29%, though it could have 31% or something close to that. But now I can just forget that poll, because things are different now. President Bush is at 32% in the RCP average. And Congress? 25.5%! That's right, Congress is now, on average, listed as 6.5% lower than the President. They claim they were elected to fix things in Washington, but their approval rating is now LOWER than the Republican Congress's approval rating around the time of the election (a Fox News poll from 11/4 - 11/5 showed it with 29%). If Congress continues to waste the money of the people who elected them to rename Post Offices and pass meaningless resolution that they even acknowledge will have no effect on anything, their majority will be short-lived. If Republicans decide to go on the offense and defend the Conservative values that put them there for 12 good years, there is no reason they can't capitalize on this opportunity and regain majority status. Not just for the sake of the Republican Party, but for the sake of America.

Another interesting thing to point out: RCP also shows McCain BEATING Clinton now, on average. Granted, there is only a 0.8% spread, but this is showing the gaining Republican momentum against the undeserving Democrats. Until recently, the only Red win overall on RCP was Rudy vs. Hillary. This has now changed. Rudy not only beats Hillary now, but he also beats Obama, on average. McCain beats not only Hillary now, but also John Edwards. Another sign of Republican gains is the first Romney victory in ANY poll to date against a Democrat. An LA Times/Bloomberg poll gives Mitt Romney a +2% victory against Hillary Clinton.

Seeing these polls give us insight to what could possibly happen. If asked 2 months ago, a large majority of Americans would have said it is impossible for Republicans to win the White House in 2008. These polls suggest that things have changed, and a Republican win is not impossible. It will still be a close battle, but if we stick to our values, the Republicans will have recuperated from what seemed to be a horrible sickness inherited from 2006.

Just a thought...

I don't have my normal laptop anymore and don't get my replacement until the second week of July, so there's probably going to be a temporary pause in updating the podcast. But I continue to do some writing. I was listening to some sound bites from the Democratic Presidential debate the other day, and, though I don't remember the whole quote, one particular thing was from Hillary Clinton..."Bush started this war."
And this is not the first time she's made these comments. And as I hear things such as this, I began to wonder...does Hillary Clinton know about the Constitution? The Dems all too often complain that the Constitution provides a system of checks and balances, but you can't blame President Bush for their lack of understanding that he can't do much at all except head the Executive Branch of the U.S. to enforce the laws and carry out diplomacy. If Hillary Clinton would read the 8th section of the first article of the U.S. Constitution, it plainly states that Congress declares war and makes appropriations for the army and navy and it is the Congress that maintains them. As Commander in Chief, it is President Bush's job to head that Army that the Congress provides. If the Democrats oppose the war so badly, stop it. That's where they can check and balance the President, but they're too scared to because it might hurt them in 2008.
Another interesting thing that I heard was Hillary bashing the President with a "joke" about how the Bush Administration doesn't know what Diplomacy is, occasionally decide to send the Secretary of State or the Vice President to satisfy people. Well...if it's not diplomacy that the Secretary of State, who is responsible for taking care of the foreign affairs and diplomacy issues of the nation, what is? Another point: Has Hillary forgotten the negotiations breakthroughs with the North Koreans? Or the recent meeting with Iran with the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq? Those are just to name a few. You can NOT blame the President if the OTHER end of the agreement falls through. I just wonder...if working on agreements with enemy nations to try to get them to stop their renegade programs isn't diplomacy, what is? This only proves another point: diplomacy doesn't always work.
But what do I know.

~CreepyNerd