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A Charles Krauthammer comment on “Special Report with Bret Baier” yesterday triggered the thought that many Republicans are on the wrong track regarding the incumbent’s performance in office.

 

Mr. Krauthammer said, “[President Obama] acts as if – it was the same with the IRS, eavesdropping on the AP, and all the other scandals, the Obamacare launch – he stumbled upon the presidency and discovered all this horrible stuff is happening. He’s in charge of these departments. At some point, you’ve got to ask, ‘Where has he been, and where is the competence, the elementary competence, he promised when he ran in 2008?’

 

And although Mr. Krauthammer’s critique is certainly correct, at this stage of the game it rates a big “So what?.” Because anyone with an iota of sense understands clearly what an absolute failure the incumbent’s been in every aspect of his tenure as POTUS.

 

After years of campaigning, and five on the job, there's no category of governance that’s improved, while just about every aspect and quality of life in the nation has suffered significantly.

 

Therefore, while by this point the failure’s crystal clear, nothing significant is likely to change no matter how many negative’s surface unless the offenses are impeachable. And what that means is, every effort should be made to ensure Republican majorities in both houses of Congress this coming November, which, according to Gallup’s latest results, is certainly possible if not probable.

 

Poll numbers show that “Twenty percent of Americans name unemployment or jobs as the most important problem facing the country in May, up from 14% who mentioned these issues in April. Dysfunctional government (19%) and the economy in general (17%) also rank among the top problems.

 

Democrats are most likely to name jobs or unemployment as the country's most important problem, whereas Republicans' top response is the economy more generally. Democrats, Republicans, and independents are about equally likely to cite dissatisfaction with government. The federal budget deficit is a much larger concern among Republicans (16%) than among independents (7%) and Democrats (3%).”

 

Here are the charted results:

 

What’s most interesting about the data is that if you analyze the categories by the importance to U.S. citizens it becomes crystal clear that the incumbent’s priorities are the complete reverse of the population's, with the environment and race relations having almost  none concerned at all.

 

Consequently, for those truly wanting to unseat the incumbent and his party, their best bet is to just ignore him. Because he’s doing a masterful job of self-destruction of both all alone.  

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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