Obamma Approval Dips Below 50%

[AUTailgatingRules]

There may be hope for this country yet.  Imagine how low it would be if he didn't have the support of 99.9% of all blacks.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

[RWS]

There may be hope for this country yet.  Imagine how low it would be if he didn't have the support of 99.9% of all blacks.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

That media outlet acted stupidly by putting out those numbers.

[Snaggletiger]

Now, with his episode of jumping the gun and screaming racism, he lost the support of our men in blue.

[AUTailgatingRules]

Now, with his episode of jumping the gun and screaming racism, he lost the support of our men in blue.

Let's hope, however you know how short someone's memory is around election time.  The republicans need to run that in an ad from now until the 2010 elections.

[RWS]

Now, with his episode of jumping the gun and screaming racism, he lost the support of our men in blue.

Most firemen aren't for him either. I get to see both sides since I am our town's Assistant Fire Chief and I work at a police department. The government recently opened up a grant opportunity for fire departments to build new fire stations. Its part of the whole improving infrastructure thing. The guidance on the program is over 80 pages. The requirements for these new stations basically mirror his whole "green" concept. A certain percentage of the building has to be lit by natural sunlight during the day, a certain percentage of the hot water heating has to be done by solar energy, you have a system in place to reclaim a certain percentage of water used by sprinklers for irrigation, the sprinklers can't use more than X amount of water per hour, certain bulbs have to be used, you are required to have exhaust scrubbers in place to hookup to the trucks (so when you do your daily checks and run the truck in the station with the doors wide open the exhaust doesn't pollute), etc. Lots of other crazy shit that will drive cost way up.

In the guidance they admit that they will only grant about 100 requests and that those will go to the largest populations. It then says that priority will also be assigned to those projects that are "shovel ready" and already have engineering, etc done. Now, how many fire departments do you think have new station plans engineered to all of those green standards? Not many at ll. The government is in the process of changing emergency services grants into a format that awards for population, instead of based on need as it is now. Alot of us feel that the government is now dictating how things will be ran with emergency services instead of them consulting with agencies like NFPA, IAAA, etc as they have in the past. There is also a real possibility of the government using bean counters to award these grants as well, instead of actual fire service people. Bean counters don't know shit about the fire service.

A pretty good majority of fire, police, and EMS folks are not cool with alot of things the government has done in the past 6 months.

[War Eagle!!!]

Most firemen aren't for him either. I get to see both sides since I am our town's Assistant Fire Chief and I work at a police department. The government recently opened up a grant opportunity for fire departments to build new fire stations. Its part of the whole improving infrastructure thing. The guidance on the program is over 80 pages. The requirements for these new stations basically mirror his whole "green" concept. A certain percentage of the building has to be lit by natural sunlight during the day, a certain percentage of the hot water heating has to be done by solar energy, you have a system in place to reclaim a certain percentage of water used by sprinklers for irrigation, the sprinklers can't use more than X amount of water per hour, certain bulbs have to be used, you are required to have exhaust scrubbers in place to hookup to the trucks (so when you do your daily checks and run the truck in the station with the doors wide open the exhaust doesn't pollute), etc. Lots of other crazy shit that will drive cost way up.

In the guidance they admit that they will only grant about 100 requests and that those will go to the largest populations. It then says that priority will also be assigned to those projects that are "shovel ready" and already have engineering, etc done. Now, how many fire departments do you think have new station plans engineered to all of those green standards? Not many at ll. The government is in the process of changing emergency services grants into a format that awards for population, instead of based on need as it is now. Alot of us feel that the government is now dictating how things will be ran with emergency services instead of them consulting with agencies like NFPA, IAAA, etc as they have in the past. There is also a real possibility of the government using bean counters to award these grants as well, instead of actual fire service people. Bean counters don't know shit about the fire service.

A pretty good majority of fire, police, and EMS folks are not cool with alot of things the government has done in the past 6 months.

Thinkof how ad things will be fucked up with the Nationalized Healthcare they are forcing down our throats...

[RWS]

Thinkof how ad things will be fucked up with the Nationalized Healthcare they are forcing down our throats...

I feel that government and politicians in general fuck so many things up because they did them for the wrong reasons in the first place.

[Saniflush]

I feel that government and politicians in general fuck so many things up because they did them for the wrong reasons in the first place.

This

[Tiger Wench]

You would hope that these numbers are growing because everyone is seeing what a fraud and a poor excuse for  President he is...

Conservatives Now Outnumber Liberals Almost Two to One in America, According to Washington Post Poll
Friday, July 24, 2009
By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief


(CNSNews.com) - Americans who consider themselves conservatives now outnumber Americans who consider themselves liberal by almost two to one, according to a new poll by the Washington Post and ABC News.

In the poll of 1,001 adults conducted between July 15-18, respondents were asked: “Would you say your views on most political matters are liberal, moderate, or conservative?”

Thirty-eight percent said they were conservative, while only 20% said they were liberal.  Thirty-nine percent, meanwhile, said they were moderate.

The percentage of self-described conservatives has increased since President Barack Obama was inaugurated in January and the percentage of self-described liberals has diminished.  A Washington Post poll conducted in mid-January, shortly before the inauguration, showed 32% saying they were conservative, 24% saying they were liberal and 42% saying they were moderates.

The poll’s margin of error is +/- 3 points.

A Post poll done in late March also had 38% of respondents describing themselves as conservatives, but the percentage of conservatives dipped to 35% in an April poll and 36% in a June poll.

The highest percentage that conservatives have achieved in this poll since the beginning of the 2008 presidential election cycle (in January 2007) was 39%. That came in a September 2007 poll, several months before the first 2008 presidential primaries.

The highest percentage that liberals achieved in this poll during the same time frame was 25%, a mark they hit in both February 2008, in the midst of the presidential primaries, and July 2007.