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Plummeting Pelosi
July 12th, 2008Nancy Pelosi has defied the laws of physics, causing a body to accelerate downward faster than gravity normally allows.
Less than two years ago, Pelosi lectured the President on who supposedly had power. With a newly elected Democrat majority and her sagging butt cheeks in the Speaker’s chair, she proclaimed “There is a new Congress in town.”
This “new Congress” has made fast working of nothing except destroying its reputation, which it decimated with astounding efficiency. In 18 months since taking over, Pelosi and Company drove Congress’s approval rating down to 9%. Lower than used car salesmen. Lower than a drunk lawyer with a handgun. Lower than whale poop in the Marianas Trench.
Lower than George Bush on a bad day.
Ignoring the spike in Bush’s popularity after 9/11, it took Bush seven and a half years of nearly non-stop bungling to drop from a 55% approval to 30%. It took Pelosi’s crew one and a half years to go from 35% to 9%. Forgive me for boring you with numbers, but …
- Bush’s approval dropped 25 points, Congress dropped 26 points
- Bush’s approval dropped 0.3 points per month, Congress 1.4 points
- Congress’s downward slide was 5.2 times faster than Bush’s
Despite having the leadership skills of a developmentally disabled person (and by that I mean Jimmy Carter) Bush still scores 21% higher than Congress Critters. Pelosi was correct in claiming Congress has significant power. They simply have yet to wield that power in a way that makes voters happy. Indeed, they do just the opposite which will submerge their scores even further. Who knows, Pelosi may soon defy the rule of statistics as well as laws of physics by scoring negative approval ratings.
Right or wrong, the American electorate has a renewed appetite for oil drilling. Yet Pelosi’s posse hits the airwaves at every possible opportunity to argue against public wishes, using arguments that are minus merit. Simple laws of supply, demand and speculation are obvious to Joe Six Pack but remain beyond Pelosi’s comprehension. This sets Democrats for a November collision with public sentiment which may have two unintended consequences: A reduced number of Dems in Congress and by proxy a drag on Obama’s campaign.
Keep up the good work, Nancy. You may accomplish what John McCain is incapable of doing.
