I've been trying to figure this out for a while now.  It's like the DC media just can't wait for Obama to crash and burn, and if it take's their assistance, so be it.  I swear, every republican in DC has been on tv at least once! Even on NPR, for crying out loud! WHAT THE HELL!

Is that pundits really think they matter?

In fact, I suspect except for Dittoheads that love Rush and some of us love Rachel Maddow, 96% of Americans (outside of the beltway) could give a flying F what Wolf, Tweety, George Steph, and the rest of the pundits say....

They are total drama queens, and complete and utter wimps.

When have you seen ONE of them ask these Republicans, how, since you are just Horrified at the fiscal irresponsability of this bill, you didn't resign in protest when Bush was doing the same kind of deficit spending?

Or, simple look up how much PORK these guys have brought home...

Hell, Ted Stevens is the ALL TIME leader in pork dollars per citizen of his state, why didn't they run HIM out of congress if they were so concerned about pork.

But, our gutless pundits just act like these crooks and liars are some Reagan-ite principles instead of hypocritical Bull-shit artists.

Republicans have never been less popular than they are today.  The stimulus fight has driven the point of their overall "has-been" status home.  In every poll Republicans are in lower esteem than lawyers and dog catchers, at about 30% approval and 60% disapproval.  They are the huge loser of the last month.  Who really CARES what Greta van Susteren or Tom Brokaw think?  The American people are speaking loud and clear, and they are saying:

1. Republicans are obstructionist just to put roadblocks in the way of Obama and Democrats in Congress.  That makes them basically worthless and impossible to vote into office.

2. Democrats are handling themselves pretty good.  They get better than average marks.

3. Obama is doing very well as president.  He is conducting himself well, is making a real effort to include the opposite side in negotiations, which is appreciated, but not returned by the worthless, obstructionist Republicans.  

All in all an incredibly good month for Obama and Democrats in general, terrible for Republicans, who, as a group, might have a lot of trouble recovering from the obstructionism and anti-populism stigma in time for the 2010 mid-terms.

Tune the chattering class out.  They are nowhere near the pulse of the American people, are not at all "our voice," so at this point they are insignificant opinionators just like Morris, Limbaugh, Hannity.  

one of the best things Obama could do (with the help of left blogostan) would be to permanently circumvent the idiot chatterers of corporate media. If there was one thing impressive about Obama during the campaign, it was his ability to get his message to the voters in spite of the sniveling mind-numbing drool that passes for political coverage in this country.

They are part of The System. Naturally, they try to defend it.

The first paragraph in that article is Ben Smith's and Politico's dream. They did a whole article about Michelle Obama redecorating her office like it was a huge scandal. I wrote Politico to say that they should have included how much money she gets paid for her hours of time as First Lady in their desperate hit job.

But I have quit corporate media ever since the primary. I don't believe a word they say. Before Obama's presser Charlie Gibson editorialized how much trouble Obama was having on the stimulus and how rocky everything was ... I changed the channel.

It's not that he got bad press, it's that the press is bad.

All this reminds me of the debates last fall, when the dopester villagers on TV were just certain of a tie or even a McCain win, and then the polling started coming in, and Mr. and Mrs. America had their say. Three times the villagers were wrong then, and they're still wrong today.

Where is Jerome with his GOP polls on this? this is politico jermone! almost as good as drudge!

Here in Indiana, it was below freezing but the steel workers rally was hot.  Jobs now!.  Stimulus now!  Health care now!.  No bailout for CEOs.  

The rally was the lead story on the local news with lots of unemployment stories.  

There will be a rally every 2 weeks.  This kind of take to the streets activism will send a message to the beltway.

This jives with everything I hear from my co-workers and friends.  No one gives a crap about how many Rs voted for the stimulus, Tom Daschle, Judd Gregg, etc.  They care that an economic recovery bill passes and it works.  This is why they are happy with Obama -  he made the bill happen.

The press reports reminds me of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky stuff.  People in DC were obsessed with it and the rest of the country wanted it to go away and thought Clinton was doing a good.  I lived and worked in DC at the time and the Village couldn't understand why no one else was outraged as they were.  DC is a total bubble - people don't get what is going on in the rest of the world.

I think as news sources have fought for viewers by moving from journalists to pretty heads, from interviewing experts to pundits, from information to drama, and from objectivity to bias they are loosing their place in the process of public debate.  

Yeah, those appointee "setbacks" don't amount to shit.

I mean, even a serious political junkie like me barely remembers W's appointment battles, let alone Clinton's.

The Republican's tried to capitalize on people's misgivings with expensive, debt-funded stimulus in general.  However, those misgivings aren't outweighed by the belief that the Fed Gov needs to do something, and let's face it, the Reps crying over deficits all of a sudden is a complete joke.

No one is buying it.

Of course, Obama's handling of the media helps too: including new sources like Huff Post and setting the record straight on his outreach v. Rep obstructionism.  Brilliant.

This is noooothing. Remember the Clinton Impeachment when they had to invent a new poll to get people to stop liking him?

At least this time the party won't fall for it. The Ds in Congress refused to campaign with Bill, as did Gore, and lost. So if the D's read the polls and no Broder, then they do not matter. BUT to the extent that Harry Reid follows the Village as opposed to the people, the damage is real.

Oh, did you notice? Appointing Gregg was Reid's idea. What a leader.