Concern about the economy is dragging down the public approval boost President Obama received after the killing of Osama bin Laden, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Though 47 percent of those surveyed approve of Obama’s overall job performance, 59 percent disapprove of his handling of the economy. Likely as a result, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney (in photo) was slightly ahead of Obama in the poll. Meanwhile, almost two-thirds of those surveyed said they “definitely would not” vote for Sarah Palin for president.
Though recklessness is pervasive in Washington, D.C., most of the time it’s not sexual but professional, wrote columnist Dana Milbank. His examples: “President George W. Bush taking the nation to war twice while cutting taxes; President Obama delivering a major transformation of the nation’s health care system without a single vote from the opposition; Rep. Paul Ryan, the House budget chairman, proposing an end to the Medicare guarantee to make more room for tax cuts; Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, gambling that he can go a second straight year without passing a budget at all.” Milbank’s conclusion: “We’d be better off if lawmakers gambled more with their private parts and less with the public good.”
President Obama’s nomination of Steve Six to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals likely will win approval from the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. The former Kansas attorney general and Douglas County District Court judge has the right experience for the job, including time in private practice and as a law clerk to the appellate judge he’s now set to succeed, Deanell Reece Tacha. Kansas Sens. Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran haven’t said whether they would vote to confirm their fellow Kansan to the court. But it’s hard to see any reason except politics — they are Republicans, Six is a Democrat — that could prompt them to vote “no.”
Concern about the economy is dragging down the public approval boost President Obama received after the killing of Osama bin Laden, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Though 47 percent of those surveyed approve of Obama’s overall job performance, 59 percent disapprove of his handling of the economy. Likely as a result, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney (in photo) was slightly ahead of Obama in the poll. Meanwhile, almost two-thirds of those surveyed said they “definitely would not” vote for Sarah Palin for president.
