AND THE POLLS KEEP HEADING SOUTH - AT 10:20 A.M. ET:  Another milestone in Rasmussen's Barack Obama saga:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 26% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -17 (see trends).

Today’s update show the highest level of Strong Disapproval yet recorded for this President. It comes as the Senate is preparing to pass health care reform legislation initiated by the President and opposed by most voters. That latest Rasmussen Reports tracking, released earlier today, shows that 41% support the health care legislation and 55% are opposed.

COMMENT:  Wait 'til they get to cap-and-trade.  And let's see if Obama fails on Iran.  And then of course there's "immigration reform."  From today's vantage point, it appears that it would take an economic boom next year to get the Democrats out of trouble.  Of course, then they'd tax it and jump right back into the doghouse. 

By the way, there are actually suggestions floating around Washington political circles that President Obama offer a guaranteed job to any Democratic member of Congress who volunteers to run next year in a difficult district, and is defeated.   But...isn't that the way the system works already?

You'll know the president is really in trouble when the kids come home from school with biographies of Dick Cheney.

December 21, 2009