{"id":7230,"date":"2009-12-17T06:41:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T11:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7230"},"modified":"2009-12-17T06:41:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T11:41:56","slug":"attention-president-obama-speaker-pelosi-and-sml-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7230","title":{"rendered":"Attention President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and SML Reid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Keep up the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB126100346902694549.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories\">good work<\/a> (emphases added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Less than a year after Inauguration Day, support for the Democratic Party continues to slump, amid a difficult economy and a wave of public discontent, according to a new Wall Street Journal\/NBC News poll.<\/p>\n<p>The findings underscored how dramatically the political landscape has changed during the Obama administration&#8217;s first year. In January, despite the recession and financial crisis, voters expressed optimism about the future, the new president enjoyed soaring approval ratings, and congressional leaders promised to swiftly pass his ambitious agenda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I remember that.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, so do a <em>lot <\/em>of people:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In December&#8217;s survey, for the first time, less than half of Americans approved of the job President Barack Obama was doing, marking<strong> a steeper first-year fall for this president than his recent predecessors<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been cautious about the polls &#8211; partly because it&#8217;s almost three years &#8217;til the next election, but mostly because the bellwether for bad first-year polling is still Reagan in &#8217;81. I was waiting to see if Obama would undercut even that dubious record.<\/p>\n<p>It seems he has.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling much better, thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep up the good work (emphases added): Less than a year after Inauguration Day, support for the Democratic Party continues to slump, amid a difficult economy and a wave of public discontent, according to a new Wall Street Journal\/NBC News poll. The findings underscored how dramatically the political landscape has changed during the Obama administration&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7231,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions\/7231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}