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Constitution Corner as we continue to march through Article I, Section 3
Book of the Week brought to you by Prying1Books. . . including the Question of the Week by Constitution Quest board game.
5 Big Stories of the Week, March 17, 2012
Honorable Mention: Obama’s African-Americans for Obama
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2012/03/obamas-african-americans-for-obama.html
5. Soldiers Asked to Disarm During Panetta Speech
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9144379/Soldiers-asked-to-disarm-during-Leon-Panetta-speech.html
4. Obama Supporter Pleads Guilty to Threatening Arpaio
http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/justice/man-pleads-guilty-to-threatening-arpaio-03142012
3. Obama’s “We only have 2% of worldwide oil reserves but we use 25% of world’s oil” lie
http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/willis-report/blog/2012/02/27/obamas-2-lie
2. Santorum Wins Alabama and Mississippi
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2012/03/santorum-wins-alabama-and-mississippi.html
1. American Soldier Opens Fire on Civilians
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/11/us-offers-condolences-as-us-service-member-investigated-for-alleged-killing/#ixzz1oxWmTcYJ
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-source-afghan-shooter-stryker-brigade-175222910.html
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Nuts and Nuggets
Nut: Obama's speech to the community college students in Maryland the other day showed a huge defensive posture when it comes to energy and gasoline and oil. Then, two new polls came out in the Washington Post and the New York Times polls on Monday. In the New York one the president's approval number at an all-time low in that poll at 41%. The whole contraception lie to get women voters is not working.
Tuesday night on C-SPAN's simulcast of Politico.com's coverage of the Mississippi, Alabama, Hawaii primaries, the executive editor, Jim VandeHei and the editor-in-chief John Harris were discussing an article looking at recent polling data. And VandeHei said, "There was a good debate inside the Politico today. There's a piece that looked at the state of the American voter. Tell the people what the thesis of the story was, John."
So HARRIS responded: “Some of these poll results, they just seem stupid. So I asked Alex Burns to, said, "Why don't you do a piece looking at the question of whether voters are stupid and a lot of the things that they say in these polls are just plain stupid." And Alex warmed to the assignment and he wrote this, actually found a number of good voices from pollsters who say, "Yeah, that's the first thing you learn as a pollster, voters are stupid." He meant that often they're expressing their opinions in a context of ignorance.”
We've got two polls which shows the Obama drive to regain popularity in some serious trouble. Women have not abandoned the Republicans over the birth control strategy, and now the polls show Obama trailing with women. In the Washington Post poll he lost four points after this whole attempt to create the phony “the Republicans want to ban contraception” attack. The liberal left is looking at the people who participate in polls, and because even the polls they work to lean left won’t work in their favor, the people voting must be stupid.
They're talking about their own polls.
Later on he says, "Often they're expressing their opinions in a context of ignorance."
From their point of view, they word their questions in a certain way to get a certain response, and the media has been educating these people, so then how could they be ignorant? Are these people saying that voters are too stupid to appreciate all the great things Obama's done. Could it be that Obama has not done anything brilliant? Could it be the voters are too smart to fall for their crap?
After all of these years of polls and these guys have used polls to make news, not reflect it, they have used these polls to create public opinion, and all of a sudden two bad polls in the same day and the respondents must be stupid.
Then, on MSNBC the guest was Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson, and they were talking about Obama's recent poll numbers, and they said:
“We've seen a slew of polls with varying results on the President's approval rating from 41% as you know to 50. Are the polls broken?”
The president's approval numbers have fallen from 50% to 41%, and so the polls must be broken?
DYSON responded: “Yeah, it's very difficult to tell. The mechanics of trying to determine whether or not Obama is successful is not about the math; it's about the chemistry. And so here I think what's going on is that Obama strikes a nerve in the heart of the American middle states as well as some of those states that are significantly blue.”
What? Did that make any sense? Obama's striking a nerve? Could it be he is simply pissing everyone off?
The polls are not broken. They have been manipulating them for years, and now the media cannot manipulate them enough to hide the decline taking place with Obama. That's what's going on. The numbers are so bad they can't manipulate them enough and still maintain credibility after they do that.
Nugget: In a video previewing the release next week of the Republicans' proposed fiscal year 2013 budget proposal Paul Ryan hit it out of the ball park.
RYAN: You know, I was here in Congress in 2008 when we had the economic crisis. It was a terrible time. Millions of people lost their jobs, trillions of dollars of wealth gone. This coming debt crisis is the most predictable crisis we've ever had in this country. And look what's happening. This is why we're acting. This is why we're leading. This is why we're proposing, and passing out of the House, a budget to fix this problem so we can save our country for ourselves and for our children's future.
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