Here Come Da Pendulum

"I've waited an eternity for this moment."

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From the only pollster that matters, taken over the 134th through 137th days of the Obama Despondency:

Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on six out of ten key issues, including the top issue of the economy.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 45% now trust the GOP more to handle economic issues, while 39% trust Democrats more.

This is the first time in over two years of polling that the GOP has held the advantage on this issue. The parties were close in May, with the Democrats holding a modest 44% to 43% edge. The latest survey was taken just after General Motors announced it was going into bankruptcy as part of a deal brokered by the Obama administration that gives the government majority ownership of the failing automaker.

Voters not affiliated with either party now trust the GOP more to handle economic issues by a two-to-one margin.

Separate Rasmussen tracking shows that the economy remains the top issue among voters in terms of importance.

Republicans also now hold a six-point lead on the issue of government ethics and corruption, the second most important issue to all voters and the top issue among unaffiliated voters. That shows a large shift from May, when Democrats held an 11-point lead on the issue.

Here's the scorecard (1,000 likely voters):

HEALTH CARE: Dems, 47%-37%

EDUCATION: Dems, 44%-37%

SOCIAL SECURITY: Dems 43%-37%

ABORTION: Tied, 41%-41%

TAXES: GOP, 44%-39%

ETHICS: GOP, 35%-29%

ECONOMY: GOP, 45%-39%

IRAQ: GOP, 45%-37%

IMMIGRATION: GOP, 43%-29%

NATIONAL SECURITY: GOP, 51%-36%

AVERAGE: GOP, 41.5%-38.4%

In the generic Congressional poll, it's a 40%-40% tie, which in practical terms means the Dems are roughly five points behind given recent party ID percentages and the respective partisan turnouts from 2008.  The Republicans lead in this year's two big governor races in Virginia (by 15) and New Jersey (by 13).  And two Democrats have defected to return majority control of the New York state sentate to Republican control.

Yes, yes, it's five months until this year's election day, and seventeen months until next year's mid-term congressional elections, and thirty-one months until the 2012 presidential election cycle kicks off in earnest.  It's one snapshot in time, long way to go, yata, yata, yata.  All of that is as true as it is irrelevant.  Why?  Because Democrats are Democrats are Democrats.  Because they are doing with unchecked power precisely what we lonely voices on the Right said they would do with unchecked power.  Because they cannot help abusing power and radicalizing the country by simple version of who and what they are.  And because all those casual, easily bamboozled masses who couldn't be bothered to actually pay attention to what's going on in order to responsibly carry out their civic responsibilities as citizens of a constitutional federal republic are now seeing before their very eyes what happens when you hand the keys to the kingdom to the Democrat Party, and therefore the horrific mistake they collectively made seven months ago.  As in the wake of 1960, 1976, and 1992, another generation of voters is learning that lesson the hard way, and the results will not be long in coming over the next two political cycles.

And yes, yes, Red Barry is still riding mid-50s approval numbers.  But the worst recession since the end of World War II that he inherited not from George W. Bush but from his own party and its Financial Logic Bomb continues to get worse, NOT better, and his horsebleep excuse-making and risible pie-in-the-sky stimulus promises are stripping the Jemimah glory from his grinning rictus one ersatz-lacquered layer at a time.  Just as the unemployment rate is a lagging economic indicator, so his approval numbers will be their political counterpart.  And given that the jobless rate has risen from 8.1% to 9.4% in just the not-quite four months since Hogzilla was unleashed upon a skeptical public, given that the past nine months of bailout mania has NEVER been popular and is getting more unpopular by the day, given that B.O. keeps Alinskily bleating of how much he HATES "having" to keep nationalizing one industry after another as he eagerly and gleefully keeps nationalizing one industry after another, given that the simplest Joe Sixpack can grasp that the way out of a ruinous pile of debt isn't to double the size of the pile in the same way that False Messiah can't spend us all rich, make water run uphill, lower the seas, raise our consciousnesses, plug the ozone hole, heal our souls, get us all laid, and harvest golden eggs from a tax-slayed goose....well, how long can it possibly be until the fact of the Emperor being nakeder than Paris Hilton on the Internet becomes so day-glo undeniable that his misbegotten presidency is eclipsed into irrelevance by his own shallowness, vapidity, and roaring foolishness, and even his Obamedia worshippers start quietly slithering away until only the commie fanatics at MSNBC are left?

This is the other side of why Sarah Palin will be the next President of the United States.  The True-Believing idiocy of the Chicago Cherubim is setting the table for her and the Republican comeback that will wash away the "blue" filth in spite of itself.

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Do you know where you are, Barry? You are about to enter hell. In hell, Barry, IN HELL!: the dead world, infernal zone, damned house, tortures place, pandemonium, purgatory, avernus, fire, Satan, THE PIT!... and the pendulum.