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Obama By the Numbers
“For the first time,” the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds, “more people disapprove of Mr. Obama’s job performance than approve.”
And 57% of voters would prefer to elect a new person to Congress than re-elect their local representatives, the highest share in 18 years….
The results show “a really ugly mood and an unhappy electorate,” said Democratic pollster Peter Hart, who conducts the Journal/NBC poll with GOP pollster Bill McInturff.
American voters, moody and fickle. I suppose that’s one explanation. May I suggest another? After almost 18 months of observing President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Reid–18 months of utterly unprecedented spending, of the most dramatic expansion of the deficit in our history, of the passage, on a pure party-line vote, and despite the unambiguous opposition of a majority of Americans, of the biggest expansion of the welfare state since the Great Society–after 18 months of observing this, American voters aren’t suffering from mood swings or displaying a fit of pique. They have weighed the evidence of their eyes and reached a straightforward and perfectly reasonable conclusion:
Throw the bums out.
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That quotation, Ted, is a thing of beauty.
Peter: Roger Scruton is superb and should have larger American audience. He writes beautifully and really cares about Western civilization, our culture, and our future. He also wrote a wonderful memoir, Gentle Regrets, which is both touching and profound. He’s incapable of writing a bad sentence.
You should book him on Uncommon Knowledge.
Peter: Your post reminded me of one of my favorite quotes from The Meaning of Conservatism, by the great English conservative Roger Scruton:
“[T]his is the strongest argument in favour of democracy, and the reason for retaining democratic procedures at the heart of politics: namely, that they enable us to get rid of our rulers.” [at page 50]
How true! Now let’s do it.