He Is Legend

Yeah, it's Gallup, the yo-yo of Obamedia pollsters.  But in this case, the numbers don't matter as much as their direction.

Okay, the number are kinda cool too:

Barack Obama averaged 44.7% job approval during the seventh quarter of his presidency. His average approval rating has declined each quarter since he took office, falling by more than two percentage points in the most recent quarter to establish a new low.

These results are based on Gallup Daily tracking surveys conducted from July 20-October 19, including interviews with more than 90,000 Americans. The seventh quarter included Obama’s new low three-day average approval rating of 41% in mid-August....

Obama’s decreased popularity is also evident in his favorable rating, updated in an Oct. 14-17 Gallup poll. For the first time, more Americans view the president unfavorably (50%) than favorably (47%), and his favorable rating is the lowest of his presidency.

In other words, a majority of Americans think Red Barry is doing a crappy job AND hate his "transformative whether you want it or not" guts - as it should be.

But wait, there's more:

As Democratic candidates in key battleground races continue to try to change the political conversation to topics other than the president’s record, a new poll by the Democratic polling firm Penn Schoen Berland confirms their greatest fears.

According to the poll, 41% of likely voters in ten competitive House districts claim that Barack Obama’s much-vaunted “change” has made conditions in the country worse, while 30% say his policies have made no difference. Only 26% of those polled believe Obama has made good on his election night promise to change for the better the way business is done in Washington.

Lead pollster Mark Penn is quoted by the conservative newspaper The Hill as saying, “All change is not good change, and the voters are expressing overall dissatisfaction with the direction of change so far.”

"Change" is discredited, and "change back" is looking awfully good.  Which is a big reason why Bush-bashing isn't working for Democrats in this cycle.  Bring up Dubya and what people remember now is the economic boom his tax cuts unleashed, and the days when Dems used to demogogue 6% unemployment as an economic disaster, and the time when the presidential mug wasn't ubiquitously smeared all over every TV screen in the country 24/7.  There were jobs, we were safe, and we had a president with honor and modesty who left us alone.  It took six years for the American people to tire of George W. Bush; it hasn't even been TWO and we're already sick of Comrade Hussein.

And for dessert:

According to Gallup’s results,  39% of Americans now believe Obama deserves a second term.

Unfortunately for him, 54% believe he does not deserve a second chance at change.

That 54% against a second term is almost two points higher than the popular vote total Obama amassed in the 2008 election.

That doesn't mean if the 2012 election were held today, The One would be blown away by fifteen percentage points.  It does mean that the table will be well set for the right Republican challenger to take him down.

And we can count on him doing nothing to disturb that table setting, because he is unconvincible that it isn't just super-peach-keen-awesome just the way it is:

Obama gave the upbeat assessment of his own performance during a stem-winding speech to an overflow crowd at a rally for Washington state senator Patty Murray, part of a four-day mid-term election campaign swing…

“For all the problems we’re going through right now, we still have the best workers on Earth, the finest universities on Earth, we’ve got the best entrepreneurs on Earth, we’ve got the freest, most vibrant economy on Earth,” he said.

One female supporter then yelled out “the best president on earth” and Obama replied, “Well, I won’t say that, but we got a pretty good president.”

Given that he gave himself a "solid B+" a year ago - before the O-Care ram-down, the FinReg ram-down, the Gulf oil spill debacle, the Gulf drilling moratorium, the war against Arizona and overwhelming majority of Americans on illegal immigration and the Islamic Victory Mosque, another trillion-plus in unsustainable debt, etc. - does "pretty good" keep him in the "B" range on his grading curve, or tick him up to an A- for his sophomore year on the job?

It would appear that 39% is a big, fat "F" everywhere else.  Which, of course, is proof of delusional minds - and that self-diagnosis is not one of the White House's strong points:

“What about all those angry tea partiers, though?” you ask. The key word is “angry.” Angry people aren’t enthusiastic; they’re just angry. And once the object of that anger is gone, there’s not much left, except perhaps more undirected anger.

Tea-party anger is not enthusiasm for Republicans or Republican policies — the only folks more disliked than incumbents are those inside the tea-party movement itself. Polls show a majority of Americans don’t align themselves with the tea party. A late August CBS poll, for example, found that 54% did not support the movement…

If we’re going to equate anger with enthusiasm — which is not a good idea, but that’s the media’s ginned-up, don’t-think-for-yourself, pre-fabricated narrative — then we have to note that angry voters are usually abrasive and obtuse. It’s not an emotion of the future.

Patriotism, on the other hand, does look into the future. And real patriotism is about solving problems, not posing slogans or inciting fear. Patriots debate; they don’t vilify, and they actually work toward things like establishing justice, ensuring domestic tranquility and promoting the general welfare.

Donna Brazile, alas, not the Valerie Jarrett video that RCP "persuaded" Bloomberg to render unembeddable, but six of one, half dozen of the other.  Suffice it to say, she's got everything backwards; we're enthusiastic, THEY'RE angry; a majority of Americans regard the Tea Party movement favorably, because the Tea Party movement IS the majority of Americans; THEY'RE abrasive and obtuse, and in major psychotic denial.  THEY vilify (Nazis?  Evilmongers?  Crazed mobs?  Angry?  Abrasive?  Obtuse?), THEY fearmonger (sinister, shadowy "foreign corporate campaign money"), because they CAN'T debate, because THEY'VE already lost the argument.  It's utter and complete psychological projection, borne of the throes of ideological terminality, the inability to accept that their worldview is crumbling around them and there is NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT.  Electoral death is coming in eleven days and THEY CAN'T STOP IT.

As to the attacking of our patriotism, I think you know the long-standard reply:

I dunno about you, but I'm not going to be lectured about patrotism by a Regime that openly declared that the first time its members were ever proud of America was when its people put them in charge of it.  That's a level of arrogance that can only fit in the head the brain of which is, by its own boasting, outgrowing it.

So leave it to that brain to also arrogate to itself the imprimatur to lecture the rest of his party about the need to rediscover....humility:

In an exclusive interview with National Journal, Obama took a conciliatory tone towards the same Republicans he’s been lambasting on the campaign trail. When asked about how he would respond if Congress extended the Bush tax cuts — something the president opposes for higher-income earners — he offered a broader answer.

“I think it’s premature to talk about vetoes because maybe I’m a congenital optimist, but I feel as if, post-election, regardless of how it plays out, the most important message that will be sent by the American people is, we want people in Washington to act like grown-ups, cooperate, and start trying to solve problems instead of scoring political points,” Obama said.

The president sounded a cautionary note for his fellow Democrats: “And it is going to be important for Democrats to have a proper and appropriate sense of humility about what we can accomplish in the absence of Republican cooperation. I think it’s going to be important for Republicans to recognize that the American people aren’t simply looking for them to stand on the sidelines, they’re going to have to roll up their sleeves and get to work.”

Translation: We've got to get Republican fingerprints on my debacles ASAP or my ass is grass two years from now.

Over to you, Mike Pence:

Look, the time to go along and get along is over. House Republicans know that. We’ve taken firm and principled stands against their big government plans throughout this Congress, and we’ve got, if the American people will send them, we’ve got a cavalry of men and women headed to Washington, D.C. that are going to stand with us. And we’re going to repeal Obamacare lock, stock and barrel. We’re going to roll back their stimulus bill. We’re going to end the era of bailouts and deficits and debt and takeovers. You better believe it. Look, what went wrong in the 1990s and first years of this century for Republicans wasn’t the lack of compromise. It was too much compromise with the establishment in Washington, D.C. I know our team gets it, and with the reinforcements the American people are poised to send to us, I know we’re going to put our nation’s Congress back on a pathway toward fiscal discipline, personal responsibility, and limited government like our founders intended.

Barack Obama still thinks this is 2008 and he can buttermouth anybody into bending over at his whim.  He thinks he'll bloviate some phony conciliation in Boehner and McConnell's direction and they'll forget the past two years of "I won" extremism, arrogance, and demonization and happily and joyfully stick their necks into his 2012 noose, while he doesn't change his imperious demeanor or radical views and agenda one jot or tittle, and add to his "legend" by leading the biggest Donk comeback in history after its worst midterm debacle ever - which, of course, he had NOTHING TO DO WITH.

2012 is already on, in other words.  I wonder how many doomed Dems realize those famous bus wheels are already grinding them into pulp.