This list is, by no means, exhaustive.  But all of it and more have compounded to slash the President’s RealClearPolitics approval average from 44.2% approval in January of 2009 to 0.3% disapproval presently–only 14 months after his inauguration.  Rasmussen’s Presidential Approval Index rating (the percentage of 1500 likely voters who view the President’s performance favorably minus [...]

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With the Left’s victories in the 2006 and 2008 elections, conservative hearts began to sink, their bearers wondering if Reagan’s optimistic proclamation of “Morning in America” had devolved into “Mourning in America” in just two decades.  The writing was on the wall: George Bush had blown all of his political capital from the midterms of 2002 and his post-9/11 [...]

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I stumbled upon a pretty darn good essay by David Mamet at the The Village Voice.  I certainly do not make a habit out of reading The Village Voice unless Drudge finds something there.  I didn’t know who David Mamet was either (still don’t) but this was too perfect.  You have probably heard the saying, [...]

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