John LeBoutillier will on “Imus in the Morning” tomorrow, Friday, December 11th, at 6:30 AM Eastern. Please listen on your local affiliate, or through www.imus.com.
Listen to John’s 12/11/09 appearance on “Imus in the Morning”:
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The latest Gallup Survey showing President Obama’s approval rating at 47% is indicative of something: once the media-induced honeymoon ended, it has been a steady decline for this rookie, in-over-his-head executive neophyte.
Just look at this graph from pollster.com—a compilation of dozens of polls—of his approval/disapproval ratings during the year since his election:
(source: pollster.com)
It is indeed a steadily-declining approval rate—and a correspondingly increasing disapproval rate.
Obama has mis-managed his first year so horribly that he might not—ever—be able to get himself back to his honeymoon highs—the mid 70’s in some polls.
He has:
1) Veered Left on Federal spending and bailouts; thus the deficits are exploding;
2) Lurched way Left on bringing the 9/11 terrorists to NYC;
3) Totally mis-managed the health care debate—to the point where he has devoted seven months to something—and then last night settled for the removal of the troublesome ‘public option’—that he could have had with bi-partisan support last June!!!
4) Dithered on Afghanistan—and then given a speech last week which has confused us all—probably including the Taliban! And then Secretaries Gates and Clinton have subtly changed the timeline since the West Point speech to indicate we will be in Afghanistan for perhaps 5 more years.
5) Seemed to be standing by while the economy—and the jobs situation—has deteriorated. None of his “cures” are seen as working. Thus talk of yet another stimulus. But Obama is seen now as behind the eight ball on the economy—primarily because he has only been talking Health Care for seven months!
5A) The Jobs Summit was a total PR farce—and hurt him even more. That was a sham—all for show—and demonstrates that Team Obama is just paying lip service to this crucial problem.
6) Copenhagen and the Global Warming Issue are seen as another sop to the Left—not as something vital to the economic survival of the country.
7) Make no mistake about it: we are at a critical time in this nation: a political vacuum, a deteriorating economic and global position and a President in-over-his-head.
8) 2010 will be a good year for the GOP. But it will be more an anti-Obama-Reid-Pelosi vote than a pro-GOP vote. The Republicans still need to get their act in gear. Being anti is OK for now, but in order to win in 2012 we will have to have a good, tight positive message.
9) Sarah Palin is sucking all the oxygen away from any other GOP presidential candidates. Romney, Pawlenty and the others are getting nowhere—as of now—as long as she is on stage.
10) Many things will change by 2012. Whoever is up today, will be down—and vice versa. That’s how it works.
BYNON AND THE BOOT RADIO SPECIAL
Arlene Bynon and John LeBoutillier—on AM640Toronto—today explored the Tiger Woods Scandal from several angles:
1. Is he a sex addict? Or is there even more behind the ongoing meltdown of the world’s most famous athlete?
3. How will this mess affect his golf? The Times of London’s John Hopkins reveals that Tiger's ability to intimidate his PGA rivals has run out. And Tiger's on-course temper and crass behavior has deteriorated even more this past year.
4. Tiger—like Andre Agassi and so many other driven-by-the-parents athletic prodigies—has grown into a dysfunctional adult. What does this say about the role of sports in the education of our youth?
5. BYNON AND THE BOOT became the first-ever international talk radio show—co-hosted from Toronto and New York with guests on the phone from London, Los Angeles and Washington DC. Future shows—on one Big Topic—will expand our global reach—with guests in Asia and South America.
Listen to a Breaking News Tiger Woods Radio Special, Sunday at 2pm, on www.am640toronto.com
John LeBoutillier in New York and award-winning Canadian broadcaster, Arlene Bynon in Toronto, will co-host the first ever international talk radio show—BYNON AND THE BOOT—broadcast live on AM640 in Toronto and on the Web—this Sunday, December 6, 2009 @ 2pm Eastern Time—with guests from London to Los Angeles and from Singapore to Washington DC—and interactive listener input from around the globe—all as we reveal shocking news about the Tiger Woods story.
The following Memo to the President was emailed to him at 10:00am this morning:
MEMO
TO: THE HONORABLE. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
FR: FORMER U.S. CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEBOUTILLIER
RE: CHANGE YOUR SPEECH TONIGHT AT WEST POINT - NOW
Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 10:00 AM
Mr. President, I urge you—before you depart this afternoon for West Point—to scrap your speech and the troop escalation the Pentagon and CIA have pressured you to adopt.
Instead, what you should do—to the overwhelming applause of the Left, Center and Right here in the USA—and the Afghan people, too—is to announce a simple and stunning new American strategy tonight:
“Bring to any American forces stationed in Afghanistan both Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri—dead or alive—and we will then pack up and leave Afghanistan within 60 days.”
That plan, Mr. President, would solve multiple problems:
1) It would decapitate Al Qaeda and end its ability to threaten us;
2) It would give a definitive purpose to our seemingly never-ending mission in Afghanistan;
3) It encourages the Afghan people—and maybe some Pakistanis, as well—to help us so that we will leave them alone; they will suddenly decide to stop protecting these two mass-murderers and instead grab them or give them up to us;
4) Politically, here at home, you will be applauded by all sides—instead of being called Bush III.
Do this tonight, Mr. President, at West Point, in front of those wonderful young cadets and you will once again represent hope and change.
However, if you proceed with the Surge that White House officials say you are to announce tonight, Afghanistan will bedevil you for the rest of your presidency.
Have the courage to scrap the speech already written—and announce this bold and simple plan: give us Bin Laden and Al-Zawahiri and we’ll leave for good within 60 days.
Sincerely,
John LeBoutillier
The Presidency of Barack H. Obama is deteriorating at an alarming rate—and few in the so-called Mainstream Media are yet taking notice.
Job losses and a declining confidence in his leadership on the economy have now bled into all other aspects of his Presidency. Let us examine a few:
1) President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try the 9/11 terrorists in criminal court in New York City—conveniently announced while the President was in Asia and as far away from the controversy as possible—will lead to events and sub-plots that boggle the mind and show why over-educated, Ivy League Liberals don‘t understand the real world. This will clearly be the biggest, most covered-trial in American history. As such, all sorts of mischief—both inside and outside the courtroom—are likely.
What if a publicity-seeking, malcontent, trouble-making egomaniac, perhaps Muslim, juror sees $$ in his or her eyes? Can you imagine the book: THE JUROR WHO SAID NO TO TORTURE.
We have—often—seen jurors do this type of thing—despite rigorous voir dire by the attorneys.
Plus, defense attorneys will see a chance to make a name for themselves by propagandizing and grand-standing—in and out of the courtroom. The media contingent attending each day will be just too much to walk by without saying or doing something.
Most of all, this Obama-Holder decision is in fact their long-time liberal dream: put G.W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the CIA on trial. That is what this is all about.
2) The announcement—and then back-tracking—about women not having a recommended mammogram any more at age 40 is yet another sign of total incompetence by this administration.
They have sent mixed messages, then trotted out HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to renounce the original announcement.
And this confusion has greatly harmed their campaign to get their health care bill passed.
It is as if this mammogram cut-back is the tip of the ice-berg of what is to come if national health care is implemented.
3) President Obama’s endless thumb-twiddling over Afghanistan has now become comical. On this trip to China he finally told the media that an “announcement was coming soon.” Then his staff said that announcement was still “weeks away.”
Of course, what is going on here is all politics. Obama is afraid to anger the Left—either on Health Care (by dropping the Public Option to get 60 Senate votes)—or on Afghanistan (by sending 30,000 more troops).
So he is holding off an Afghanistan announcement until he gets a better picture of the lay of the land in the Senate.
Meanwhile—as the troops flounder and the Taliban is emboldened by the President’s hand-wringing indecision—Obama’s approval rating continues to decline.
He is now under 50%—an amazing drop for someone with a compliant news media and total control of both houses of Congress.
In an NBC interview from China he talked of “all these airplanes circling the runway right now and we need to land one of them but the runway is congested right now.”
Oh, really? And just who “congested” it? Who put too many planes in the air at the same time?
You, Mr. President!
You have tried to do too much, too quickly at too great a financial cost—and you seem oblivious to the public outcry over it.
He is indeed more Jimmy Carter than Ronald Reagan.
Conclusion: more and more people are opposing this Administration. That does not mean they are embracing the GOP; the Republican brand is still severely damaged by Bush’s tenure.
Instead there is a leadership vacuum—unlike anything we have seen since the late 1970’s.
The next three years will be fraught with danger and the unexpected. Obama has lost his one-time opportunity to pull this nation together and lead it. He is already in decline and unable to even get his own party to do what he wants.
Get ready for a spate of events soon to unfold.
It has not been reported—yet—but look for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to follow President Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lead and go to any length—even to alter Senate rules—to pass the health care reform bill with the public option included.
This will happen because the Democrats—led by President Obama—feel they absolutely must pass this bill with the public option included.
They believe that a failure to pass it will mean a failed, one-term Presidency and the loss of Congress.
Ironically, passing it may result in exactly what they dread.
They are misreading the 1994 Congressional debacle after the failure of Hillary Care. And Bill Clinton is helping them misread what happened back then. He just went to the Senate to urge them to pass this bill.
Their belief is that the failure to pass any bill is what cost them control of Congress. So they are determined to pass a bill this time—no matter the political cost to get it passed.
(Their misreading of history is typical of liberals. They didn’t lose Congress because of no health care bill; they lost it because they were seen as too entrenched, too corrupt and too arrogant. The same thing happened in 2006 and 2008 to GOP control of Congress.)
Let us examine what has already happened in the past week:
In the House Pelosi and the Left did something that shows us just how desperately they want to pass this public option: they abandoned one of the Left’s foundation principles—government funding of abortions for poor women.
Yet the liberals were willing to sacrifice that basic tenet of liberalism in order to pass this health care bill.
What does that tell us?
That Obama, Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel and Harry Reid will pull out all the stops to pass this bill with the public option included.
This public option is code for National Health Insurance—or Single Payer Plan—with the Feds paying for it all and running it all.
This is a key component of the Left’s long-held Utopian Plan: cradle to grave health care coverage to go along with Federal control of much of what used to be called private enterprise; the government determining salaries of CEOs; the Feds overseeing all education with Washington clearing all the material taught in schools, including textbook content; DC regulating the content of the Internet—and taxing it, too; and the FCC sticking their fingers into Talk Radio to mute conservative voices.
Barack Obama has had it in for private health insurance companies ever since they denied cancer coverage to his dying mother. His obsession with putting them out of business because of how they treated his mother is equal to G.W. Bush’s obsession with getting Saddam because of what the Iraqi leader did to his father.
So it all comes down to the upcoming debate in the U.S. Senate.
If they can get 60 votes for the Public Option, then they can break the filibuster and pass the bill.
But, as of today, they cannot get those 60 votes.
However, if they can get 51 votes—and it looks like they might be able to as of now—they will use this obscure parliamentary maneuver, nick-named The Nuclear Option because it blows up the Senate, destroys Senate precedent and destroys the ability of Senators to ever trust each other again.
The Nuclear option is best described in Wikipedia: “In U.S. politics, the "nuclear option" is an attempt by a majority of the United States Senate to end a filibuster by majority vote, as opposed to 60 senators voting to end a filibuster. Although it is not provided for in the formal rules of the Senate, the procedure is the subject of a 1957 parliamentary opinion and has been used on several occasions since.”
So all the talk by the Republicans and Senator Joe Lieberman that they will run a filibuster to prevent a bill with the public option might be all for naught. Harry Reid—with desperate prodding by Obama and his bulldozer chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel—will use this tactic to ram their sacred Public Option through the Senate and proclaim victory.
One other factor to consider: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is in serious re-election trouble next year in Nevada. He will want something to run on. Proclaiming himself an “the Majority Leader who gave all of you health care!" may be what he believes wins him another term in the Senate.
In sum, this Nuclear Option is coming. Get ready.
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