Via Ezra Klein, NBC/WSJ has a new poll showing that Obama's post-partisanship fetish is not going so well with all those people that are out of work and otherwise have a shitty standard of living while Washington continues to do nothing to help them:
On the deficit, which was at the heart of the pitched battle over the debt ceiling earlier this summer, Obama has reaped no dividends for trying to produce a compromise agreement with Republicans. Six in 10 disapprove of Obama’s work on the federal budget deficit, a percentage that is relatively unmoved in recent surveys and basically where it was a year ago.
No shit. You don't need a poll for these things. It has long been glaringly obvious that no one gives a fuck about Obama's post-partisan brand/strategy (if you can even call it a strategy anymore) except for the Obama political team. People are hurting and they want substantive results that improve their bleak standard of living, even if that means hurting the Republican's fee-fees, getting a little aggressive, or rightfully and repeatedly calling them on their bull shit. People want Obama to be a fighter. Being Conciliator in Chief during the Lesser Depression and against unprecedented, childish Republican obstruction is not going to win him any favors. The Republicans want Obama to fail and do nothing, and he is handing that to them on a silver platter while simultaneously hamstringing his own re-election prospects.
If Obama loses in 2012, he really has nobody to blame but himself. He has doubled down on this 'above-the-fray' strategy time and again, and it has long since been apparent that no one cares for it. There's a time and a place for such high-mindedness, and the midst of the Lesser Depression is not one of them.
"But Obama promised to bring hope and change and be different and change the tone of Washington and end partisanship during his campaign," you say. Yeah, well he also promised a ton of other shit in the campaign that on which he did not and will not deliver. I would have rather seen him uphold even a fraction of the other campaign promises at the price of ditching this 'turn the other cheek' dreck.
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