Public opinion in The Age Of The One matters in direct proportion to whether it conforms to the Obama Agenda. If it does, O cites it and basks in the adulatory glory; if it doesn't, he heaps scorn and ridicule and hatred upon all the "haters" standing in the way of "progress" and "history" and does what he wants anyway.
The public take on his nuclear sellout to Iran is tellingly similar to how Americans regarded ObamaCare before and then after it took effect: When it was still an abstraction, they didn't really care much one way or the other, but after it landed like an asteroid strike and it was too late to stop it, they quickly turned against it:
A majority of Americans want Congress to reject the recently-negotiated nuclear deal with Iran, even as Barack Obama’s approval rating continues to stand in net-positive territory for the second month in a row, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.
The new CNN/ORC poll finds 49% approve of the way Obama is handling his job, 47% disapprove, about the same as in a June survey, which found the President’s approval rating at 50% for the first time since 2013. But on the President’s biggest accomplishment since then — the nuclear agreement reached between the U.S., its allies and Iran — most say they would like to see Congress reject it. Overall, 52% say Congress should reject the deal, 44% say it should be approved.
Some opposition to the deal may be fueled by skepticism. A CNN/ORC poll in late June, conducted as the deal was being worked out, found that nearly two-thirds of adults thought it was unlikely the negotiations would result in an agreement that would prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
This is the kind of noodle-headedness that gives "low-information voters" their, well, noodle-headed reputation. How can the same people that say that a nuclear "deal" with Iran is a good thing also simultaneously say that the mullahs can't be trusted and no "deal" will keep them from gaining a nuclear weapons arsenal? Seems to me that those two assertions are mutually exclusive.
The hypothetical becoming the reality has had the usual effect, as the polling has adjusted to reflect the same partisan divide that has existed for years and which Barack Obama has made deeper than the Marianas Trench. "Independents" have now joined Republicans in vehement opposition to the "deal," and only Democrats (61/36), "youts," (53/41), "liberals" (64/33), and minorities (51/47) still support it.
Will that be sufficient public pressure to goad enough Democrats to cross the aisle and vote to override their "messiah's" veto of a congressional rejection resolution? Are you kidding?
This goes to illustrate, I think, that it isn't only Republicans that lack the counter-revolutionary mindset. I fear that only the horrific consequences of Obama's "historic, landmark agreement" will accomplish that. And by then, of course, it will be too late.
Better stock up on that three billion sunblock.
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