BloggeRhythms

Today’s one in which an array of statistical results speak volumes about politicians, party platforms and job performance and how they relate to voters desires and preferences.  

Once again, the new POTUS’s popularity’s rising whereas: “The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-two percent (52%) disapprove.”

That’s one point higher than yesterday’s 47%.

Coincidentally, RJ Reinhart reports @gallup.com that: “The Gallup Good Jobs rate rose to 45.1% in March from 44.4% in February. Although down from its peak of 47.1% in July of 2016, it is currently higher than the 44.4% recorded in March of 2016. The GGJ is at its highest point since November 2016 (45.7%).”

So, once again, the strongest indications are that when people are gainfully employed in good positions, it’s always benefits politicians seen as being of help to the economy. And its always remarkable that for whatever reason, elected Democrats never seem to grasp this very simple concept.   

Yet, even supposedly astute Republican politicos don’t always accede to voters wishes either. That can be seen in an article by Rafael Bernal and Mike Lillis @thehill.com saying: “Despite President Trump’s request for more than $1 billion to fund the Mexican border wall this year, GOP leaders are expected to exclude the money in the spending bill being prepared to keep the government open beyond April 28.

“Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) says the choice is pragmatic and the money will come later.” 

At the same time, John McCain, in a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday, “expressed concern to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly about a growing resentment in Mexico over the administration's border policies.

“There is a lot of anti-American sentiment in Mexico. If the election were tomorrow in Mexico, you'd probably have a left-wing, anti-American president in Mexico. That can't be good for America,” McCain said. 

“It would not be good for America, or for Mexico,” Kelly conceded. 

While the Bernal/Lillis column had no following reader comments, a similar article on Facebook drew their thoughts.  

Todd Nanfito commented: “ I voted for Pres. President Donald J. Trump to secure the border, and that's what I want! Look, that is no way to enter our country, and those jerks know it.” 

252 other readers agreed with Mr. Nanfito.   

Stuart Blancas added: “Dumbocrats would ruin this country if we let them. Maybe if we didnt give BILLIONS of dollars to countries that hate us we could afford the wall and take better care of our vets and people that need help right here in our own country  

188 liked this one.  

And then reader Gary Godejohn offered an intelligent solution to the funding problem: “Not having the money didn't stop them when they were voting for half of Barry's spending bills, first off. Second, all they have to do is cut funding to a dozen or so of the libs' favorite programs, and the money saved by not having to deal with the huge flow of illegals will take care of the rest.” 

159 more gave Mr. Godejohn a thumbs up.  

And then another statistic made voters opinions of all politicians, and Congressional Republicans in particular, crystal clear, as: “Congressional job approval declined to 20% in April, eight points lower than the seven-year high reached in February after Donald Trump's presidential inauguration. The drop was driven mainly by a loss of support among Republicans, whose approval fell from 50% two months ago to 31% in April. 

“The current drop in support among Republicans could be tied to failure by party leaders to fulfill campaign pledges on major pieces of legislation such as tax reform and healthcare. By far the most prominent failure occurred last month when House Speaker Paul Ryan could not unite the different factions within Republican ranks to pass a bill replacing the landmark Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.” 

While Trump bucks the tide of Congressional Republicans losing voter appeal, he got another boost today when another of his claims was proven true. This one concerning his campaign being surveilled and reported by Rush among others: 

“RUSH: I cannot tell you how big this is. This validates what Trump was saying about his campaign being surveilled. And it’s also the first time anything like this has ever happened. The Washington Post has the story and they’ve got so much detail I wonder if they’ve actually been leaked the actual warrant application. You know, FISA warrants are secret as grand jury testimony, but somebody’s leaked this stuff to the Washington Post.” 

In actuality, the Post column isn’t very supportive of Trump at all. But it certainly does support his surveillance claims as presented by Ellen Nakashima, Devlin Barrett and Adam Entous @washingtonpost.com.
 
“The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.

“The FBI and the Justice Department obtained the warrant targeting Carter Page’s communications after convincing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge that there was probable cause to believe Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power, in this case Russia, according to the officials. 

“This is the clearest evidence so far that the FBI had reason to believe during the 2016 presidential campaign that a Trump campaign adviser was in touch with Russian agents. Such contacts are now at the center of an investigation into whether the campaign coordinated with the Russian government to swing the election in Trump’s favor.” 

Thus, while Trump’s claim holds true, the Post is using the situation as the basis to cast suspicion on him, nonetheless. Making one wonder why Rush is so elated about finding this out.

Beyond the Post revelation, however, far stronger support for Trump came from none other than the normally opposed New York Times, of all sources. 

As reported by Peter Baker @nytimes.com: “A week ago, President Trump was accused of being a tool for the Russians, an unwitting agent of influence, so full of admiration that he defended President Vladimir V. Putin against critics who called him a killer. 

“Now, Mr. Trump is in a diplomatic clash with Mr. Putin’s Russia, his administration accusing Moscow of trying to cover up a Syrian chemical weapons attack on civilians and his secretary of state delivering us-or-them ultimatums. 

“Even in a presidency marked by unpredictability, the head-spinning shift from coziness to confrontation has left Washington and other capitals with a case of geopolitical whiplash. The prospects of improving Russian-American relations were already slim given the atmosphere of suspicion stemming from Kremlin meddling in last year’s election, but the détente once envisioned by Mr. Trump has instead deteriorated into the latest cold war. 

“For Mr. Trump’s camp, the abrupt turnaround simply proved how false the conspiracy narrative was from the start. “If there was anything that Syria did, it was to validate the fact that there is no Russia tie,” said Eric Trump, the president’s son.” 

Therefore, in one short sentence fragment “the abrupt turnaround simply proved how false the conspiracy narrative was from the start,” the vaunted leftist flag-bearing Times has not only vindicated Trump but exposed the use of continual fabrication as the primary Democrat political strategy.    

And then another repeating item reinforces the thought that the formerly quite conservative Fox News has gradually been moving left since Roger Ailes departure.  

Back on March 15th, and several times since then an article’s been referred to here, written by Dana Blanton and saying: “Fox News Poll: Trump approval slips, even as more feel economy improving 

“Voters think President Trump is ahead of most previous presidents on fulfilling campaign promises, and the most voters in more than a decade see an improving economy.  Yet that isn’t enough to put the president’s job rating in positive territory, according to a Fox News Poll released Wednesday.” 

And now, a full four weeks later that very same article is still there on the Fox News website. 

Which can only lead one to believe that despite all the positive upward movement achieved by Trump in other polls, this network wishes to keep reminding readers that he’s still not a very popular president. Something it's doubtful would be taking place if Roger Ailes were still around overseeing things. 

That’s it for today folks. 

Adios