Damage Control Parties To The Bridge

Meanwhile, the President continues to take political damage from the GOP Plan to scuttle the economy as the Republicans have successfully cut off any more stimulus spending outside the heavily watered down jobs bill, and Obama is paying the price in the polls.

A year after President Barack Obama's political honeymoon ended, his job approval rating has dropped to a negative 44 - 48 percent, his worst net score ever, and American voters say by a narrow 39 - 36 percent margin that they would vote for an unnamed Republican rather than President Obama in 2012, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

This compares to a 48 - 43 percent approval for Obama in a May 26 national poll by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University and a 57 - 33 percent approval last July, just before the political firestorm created by opposition to his health care plan galvanized political opponents and turned independent voters against him.

In this latest survey of more than 2,000 voters, independent voters disapprove of Obama 52 - 38 percent and say 37 - 27 percent they would vote for a Republican contender in 2012.

American voters also say 48 - 40 percent Obama does not deserve reelection in 2012.

As the economy goes, so goes this presidency, and Obama knows it.  He also knows the Republicans will not lift a finger to help anyone but the wealthy...at least, I think he does.  I'm increasingly unsure of that.  Obama's fiscal commission seems poised towards making even more cuts at a time where we're facing deflation, and the economy is at most six months away from another downward plunge.

Obama needs to get it together and fast.