There was an old funk tune from back in the day called One Nation Under A Groove: Getting Down For The Funk of It. Within that song was a line, “so low they can’t get under it.” ?Polls indicate today that the Republican party is just about there. Today, one of the oldest and most widely known polls, Gallup, has the GOP approval rating at 28 percent. The truth of the matter is this result is not only the worst rating ever recorded for the Republican party it’s the worst ever recorded for any political party period.
The first thing conjured in this writer’s mind was Rand Paul walking up on Mitch McConnell both Senators from Kentucky with Ole Mitch all wired for sound and Paul in a whispered voice saying, “hey, I think we can win this thing.” Let me conjure that image up for you:
All throughout the recent news days, all one could hear?from the right was “we are winning, we are winning,” and “conversation this and conversation that”. Throughout the beginning days of this fiasco, when it was apparent that this would not play well with the American people, we have seen some Tea Party politicians bump their chest in glee and we have seen some try to divert it to being a Obama problem now we see the Republicans trying to weasel entitlement reform in the negotiations.?Gallup analyst Andrew Dugan wrote:
?The Republican Party is clearly taking a bigger political hit from Americans thus far in the unfolding saga. The Republican Party’s current strategy in the fiscal debates may not be paying dividends.?
According to the poll that is clearly an understatement. Worst results ever in a Gallup poll for a political party Republican or Democrat. While in fairness the President has not come out of this smelling like a rose and why many progressives are pleading with him not to deal with the Republicans for the Democrats say they have already compromised enough another word that has been bandied about in the last several days. This survey has been in function since 1992 and the previous low was held by another esteem Republican George W. Bush. So, we are at a point the Republicans are that is lower than when Bush, Jr had America in the ditch. It could be said that it’s pretty clear the Republican party following the antics of ?Senator Ted Cruz and others debate is not paying dividends at all.
Also noted by Dugan, Republicans are also hurt by splits within their own party:
?Self-identified Republicans are more than twice as likely to view their own party unfavorably (27%) as Democrats are to see their own party unfavorably (13%).”
There is one thing for sure with right-wing media backed by organizations like Citizens United attempting to soundbite their way out of this by attempting to fool the American people into believing: that it’s the Democrats and Obama and Obamacare? that are the reasons that the services the American people rely on are being shutdown and not being met is not working. Brings to mind the truism ‘ what you send out you receive back,” and since day-one of the Obama presidency, all the Republicans have sent out was obstruction, lies, tom-foolery, and propaganda, and to that end, what did they get in return? A 28% approval rating the worst ever recorded.
Edited/Published by: SB
