Americans Rally Around The President As Obama Approval Jumps 5 Points Thanks To Netanyahu / Boehner

[GreatGazoo]

From February 26-28, President Obama’s approval rating was 44% in the Gallup Daily Tracking Poll. The president’s disapproval rating was 51%. Once Netanyahu’s arrived in the United States, President Obama’s approval rating jumped to 49%, and his disapproval rating fell to 47%.

There were signs that the Republican handling of the Netanyahu invitation was not playing well with many Americans. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released yesterday found that by a margin of 48%-30%, registered voters said that John Boehner should have talked to President Obama before inviting Netanyahu.

A February 17, CNN poll found overwhelming opposition to the way that Speaker Boehner handled the invitation. Sixty-three percent of respondents felt that it was a bad move for Boehner to invite Netanyahu without giving Obama a head’s up, and only 52% of Republicans supported Boehner not notifying Obama first before inviting Netanyahu.

The Netanyahu speech has not worked out the way that Republicans had hoped it would. Speaker Boehner invited Netanyahu as a power play that was designed to get congressional Republicans back on track after a disastrous first few months in the majority. It appears that the speech has done the exact opposite.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/03/03/americans-rally-president-obama-approval-jumps-5-points-netanyahu.html

See also: Majority of Americans oppose Netanyahu invite

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/17/politics/poll-netanyahu-speech-opposition/index.html

[Fred Sanders]

1. No matter who holds the Office of President, it belongs to the People. Wipe your dirty feet before entering

The worst egotistical and maniacal politicians never get that all political Offices belong - not to them.

[forest444]

25. But of course, the Bushes certainly don't feel that way.

They're like the Duke brothers in Trading Places (if not worse). When their gambit to corner the frozen oj market backfired, Mortimer yelled: "a Duke has been sitting on the board since the exchange was founded! This exchange belongs to us!! Turn those machines back on!!!..."

What I mean is, you can bet Jebba-the-Hutt's people will be coordinating strategy with Bibi - and that will likely include one or more "USS Cole incidents" or some other October Surprise.

The Bushes have so much experience with those.

[rdmtimp]

43. Jebba-the Hutt!!!!!

[Raster]

44. Jebba-the-Hutt!

DING! Winnah!

[tridim]

2. It jumped 5 points thanks to Obama.

[Cha]

3. +1

[mimi85]

40. +1000

[Dont call me Shirley]

4. Diplomacy, not war. People would rather our President behave that way.

Thanks WarBibi for strengthening the Presidents diplomatic resolve. This is what the American people want.

[Scuba]

10. Eggzaklee!

[spanone]

5. americans don't want republicans handing our foreign policy over to netanyahu or anyone else

[B Calm]

8. Bingo!

[father founding]

26. do you know how to read?

If you own it , You don't need it handed over.

[leftynyc]

6. Americans opposed the invitation

but approval for Bibi himself has risen with both Democrats and Republicans:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/netanyahu-favorability-speech

[Omaha Steve]

7. K&R!

[tomsaiditagain]

9. Bombs away is the republican way!!

Death and mayhem to all even if you vote repig!!

[Initech]

41. Democrats = make love, not war. Republicans = war 24/7, lots of profit.

[mountain grammy]

11. That's because we're sick of war

you stupid Republicans..

[rpannier]

33. Not sure about that

By about 3:1 Americans support sending troops to fight ISIL

[mountain grammy]

34. Yeah, just read that poll... depressing.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

35. Thanks to the RW propaganda freely passed on the them by the media.

[busterbrown]

12. Fuck Yea!! No Fucking Text..

[Historic NY]

13. Netanyahu’s speech was more about Sabre-rattling than anything else..

this a$$hole has been predicitng that Iran will have a nuke for decades.

Netanyahu in 1993: Iran will have bomb by 1999

The prime minister has been warning for over 20 years that Tehran is close to achieving its pursuit of nuclear weapons.

"The rulers of Iran have said repeatedly that they will have an Islamic bomb and that its first target is Israel," he argued in a piece titled "The greatest danger," claiming that Iran will develop its first nuclear bomb by 1999 – 16 years ago.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4633272,00.html


Commanders for Israel's Security, a group of former senior commanders from the IDF, Mossad, Shin Bet and Israel Police, held a press conference Sunday, in which they warned that Netanyahu's security and diplomatic policies were destroying the alliance with the US, ruining Israel's power of deterrence and serving to bring Iran closer to obtaining nuclear weapons.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/02/brief-history-netanyahu-crying-wolf-iranian-nuclear-bomb/



http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Former-Israeli-security-commanders-Netanyahu-speech-will-bring-Iran-closer-to-the-bomb-392565

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. Meanwhile people are saying, if it gets one - SO WHAT?

It's not like it was 50 years ago when a country had to build their own bomb to become a member of the Private Club. For a while there it was like Star Trek and their requirement that a civilization had to develop warp drive before they were considered worthy.

Nowadays though everyone is working to get rid of their stockpiles.

You don't get away from the kiddie table that easy anymore. In fact, it makes it harder to prove you're an advanced civilized nation as we have branded any nation trying to build a bomb as a "terrorist nation" because using the threat of a nuke to prevent an invasion of your country is what we've outgrown.

[Historic NY]

29. Pakistan & India both enemies...

have them and have live tested them....

MAS - mutually assured destruction is what keeps them from using them on each other. I'm not so sure Iran wants to kill off it population, Israel thats a completely different matter. BiBi needs a war to keep people eyes on other things besides what Israel is doing domestically and on their own home front.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

30. The Right Wing in Israel has been using fear for decades....

They tell the people they are surrounded by savages who want to kill them and they've stayed in power because people believe it.

Doesn't MATTER how many tall buildings or five star hotels they build.

[B Calm]

47. They have health care for all, tall buildings, etc because of US tax dollars.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

49. I've actually heard a guy claim "Obamacare" was stealing money from Israel....

He knows it's true because he heard it on a radio show.

[Fred Sanders]

14. Bibi obviously and openly continues to lie about who invited him and why...an election...what else will he lie about?

Can you imagine the photo-op he would have got if Obama had met with him, which was being turned by the media into some kind of "insult"...but now apparently the politically obssessed media will only assess a situation if it meets the requirements of a foreign government.

[jomin41]

15. is it possible

for Americans to contribute money to a candidate in an Israeli election?

[aquart]

20. I hope not.

[jomin41]

31. Actually

I was thinking of Bibi's opposition.

[Scarsdale]

45. Tee shirts

$carah PayMe has tee shirts advertised on her SarahPac, "I Stand With BiBi" Only $35 each. Like everything else she promotes, the profits will go towards her family slush fund, since none of them has a job.

[randr]

16. Bibi needs far more support than just American Jews

He has seriously eroded the support from average Americans who are beginning to see his tail wag our dog.

[tblue37]

36. And that is precisely why the Israeli intelligence community and

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military establishment was so upset with him. They know that Israel needs the support of *both* major US political parties and of the general public in the US, but Bibi just did his best to torpedo decades' worth of bipartisan relationships.

[randr]

48. I suspect that his support at home is finally waning

and just like the radical right here he is working on the appeal to his base.
He and our own rightists are merely circling their wagons.

[ellennelle]

17. ya gotta wonder

how much of that jump also reflected dissatisfaction with boehner's handling of the DHS funding/immigration vote.

not sure as you could really split that hair, frankly.

either/both ways, boehner's face is covered with egg. would that be the ones that must be cracked to make the omelet he so often sites?

[1StrongBlackMan]

18. I'm not so sure that the jump is related to boehner's mishandling of ...

the DHS funding/immigration vote because the failure of one party, typically, doesn't bump the approval of another on a separate issue(s). That argument could be made had President Obama been vocal on the DHS funding fight; but, he was not ... there was nothing to connect the two issues in the minds of the American people.

[aquart]

19. Boehner's endless incompetence is kinda awesome.

This is a man who can take lemonade and make lemons.

[vlakitti]

28. YAY!

[SmittynMo]

21. This thread says it all

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026308169

The republicants are soooooooooooooooo ignorant and stupid. That'll teach them... NEVER!!!

[whathehell]

22. Take that, Joe Scab!

[Cryptoad]

23. Having to crawdad on DHS funding didn't hurt either! nt

[father founding]

27. Is this guy French

Bibi, I know you think the USA is a colony of Israel, but we speak English here.

[SunSeeker]

32. Mission Accomplished, Boehner.

[nikto]

37. But...but...but...Nuclear tripwires!!!!! Netanyahu scared me, mommy!!!!

I'm gonna' have cry-mares.

[AllyCat]

38. Everything they do is a disaster

[Liberal_in_LA]

39. kick

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

42. Wait a minute...

Gallup had the president at 50% last week. How did it drop back down to 44% that quick? Americans really are that fucking stupid!

[yellowwoodII]

46. Next election

Americans should take a good hard look at our own politicians and see where they are placing their allegiance. I made a list of politicians who voted for the Iraq War a decade ago and vowed never to vote for them, no matter what.
We need to do that again in reaction to this event.

Are all of our Democratic politicians really loyal to the party ideals?

[Kingofalldems]

50. This sums it up nicely:

https://twitter.com/milesjreed/status/573548158594101249