Lincoln Blog
March 11, 2010:
The deeply unpopular health care reform bill has helped to drive President Barack Obama's job approval ratings to the lowest point of his Presidency according to the latest Gallup Poll.
In fact, the President is in danger of going upside down in his ratings.
One of the most popular chief executives ever when he took office (70% positive); just 46% now give President Obama a positive job approval rating. The news gets worse: 45% rendered a negative view of his performance in office.
The political damage being done to Obama and the Democrats appears increasingly likely to jeopardize the party's control of the U.S. House of Representatives, and possibly even the U.S. Senate which just weeks ago was under their control by a filibuster proof 60 vote majority.
Further evidence of the deep unpopularity of the health care measure came today from Wall Street.
When the Senate parliamentarian ruled that a second bill making changes to the Senate bill to accommodate objections by House Democrats could not be passed until after the first bill was signed into law, chances for passage of this version of health care reform dimmed.
And stocks rallied, reversing losses from earlier in the day.
It is becoming increasing clear that if health care reform lives, the Democrat's stranglehold on the federal government will die.
