Daily Commentary – Friday, November 22, 2013 – Did You See George W. Bush on Jay Leno?

• The former president looked good, relaxed and he’s not a bad artist!

UPDATE I: Check out the VIDEO below of what Dana is referencing in his daily commentary. Leno brought up GWB’s recent health scare. Laura Bush responded that she was scared; however, W said that he was not. Leno then hit him with the money line and asked, “You got Obamacare?” and the audience erupted in laughter. The best part is that W and J actually got a good, honest chuckle out of it. GWB had some interesting things to say about dealing with the tough times.

CNN Poll: Barack Obama’s Approval Rating Hits All-Time Low, 41% Approve, 56% Disapprove

Another poll and another new low for Barack Obama …

According to the most recent CNN poll, President Barack Obama has hit an all-time low with his job approval as only 41% approve of the job he is doing, while 56% disapprove.  This poll is just one of many recent job approval polls that have Obama hovering at 40% or under in the 30′s. Even more troubling for Obama is that he has lost the middle and women as the approval/disapproval is remarkably far apart:  Independents 32-63, Moderates 40-56 and Woman 40-53. Powerline makes an important point in that this is just the beginning of the slide as the real affects of Obamacare have yet to hit a majority of Americans. When 10′s of millions or greater lose their employer insurance plans, lose access to their preferred physicians and hospitals, “Poll numbers that look like a floor today will look like a ceiling in six months.” Yes they will.

And right on script, Obama looks to blame everyone but himself.

• ABC News/Washington Post
• Quinnipiac University
• PEW Poll
• FOX News
• National Journal Heartland Monitor
• Gallup
• NBC News/Wall Street Journal
• CBS News

As President Barack Obama’s approval rating hits another all-time low, a new national survey also indicates that Americans say the President has less power than congressional Republicans when it comes to shaping events over the next year.

According to a CNN/ORC poll released Thursday, 41% of Americans approve of the job the President’s doing in the White House, the lowest level for that crucial indicator in CNN polling. Fifty-six percent questioned say they disapprove of Obama’s performance, an all-time high in CNN surveys.

The President’s overall job approval rating is down three points since mid-October after being stuck in the mid-40s for several months in CNN polling. But it’s worth noting that Obama’s woes did not begin with the disastrous launch of the HealthCare.gov website in October, Holland pointed out.

“The real damage came in June, when reports about NSA spying and IRS treatment of conservative groups caused an eight-point drop in his approval rating – a far more significant change than what the numbers from October suggest,” he said.

Read Full poll HERE, pdf.

How comical is it that  Rasmussen is the outlier poll that favors Obama the best at 43% approve, 55% disapprove?

UPDATE I: Hot Air takes a look at several of the cross-tabs of the poll, and they do not bode well for Democrats.

TICKING TIME BOMB: Second Wave of Health Care Cancellations Estimated at 50 to 100 Million (Employer Mandate – Obamacare will Devastate Small Business)

Obamacare is a ticking time bomb for small and large business insurance health plans …50 to 100 million insurance policies to be canceled in 2014.

“Hope and Change,” eh? The next time some one promotes change, you might just want to read the 2000 pages of a bill before you allow politicians to pass it so we can see what’s in it.

Congress needs to put a stake thru the heart of Obamacare and repeal this law before it does irreparable harm to the United States. It may be imploding, but it’s not going away. Obamacare is like Jason Voorhees of Friday the 13th fame, it has to be put down once and for all. If not, the so-called fixes will just be more of the same, all to many bad remakes.

Hey America, how that Barack Obama’s promise that you can keep your healthcare plan if you like it, PERIOD! working out for you? Stan Veuger from the American Enterprise Institute told FOX News yesterday that he foresees 50 to 100 million small and large business policies likely to  be cancelled next year.  They will likely then be forced on to Obamacare and their health care costs will be much more than previously paid. Hmm, did Obama also promise to reduce the healthcare costs as well? This is just the tip of the iceberg. Imagine what will happen to the insurance industry and the US economy is 50 to 100 million insurance policies are canceled and individuals and families are forced to pay more, taking billion out of the economy and destroying the insurance industry. But then again, isn’t that what the community agitator was after all along, a single payor government healthcare system.

The Obamacare Time-bomb: That is a political disaster for the Democrats.

It gets worse. As the American Enterprise Institute’s Dr. Scott Gottlieb has pointed out, there is already a second wave of cancellations set to come right before the 2014 mid-term elections. It turns out that many small businesses with fewer than 50 employees, who buy in the small-group market, were able to exploit a loophole in Obamacare and avoid for one year the mandates being placed on plans in the individual market. Those businesses get to keep offering coverage that does not meet Obamacare requirements until the end of 2014. But, Gottlieb writes, that means that “starting in October 2014, many employees of small businesses will start getting the same notices that are now being mailed to individuals, informing that their existing health plans are also being cancelled.

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It was Obama’s plan all along to forcibly move millions of those younger, healthier people into the exchanges next year to subsidize care for the old and the sick. But if those younger, healthier people don’t join the exchanges next year, as planned, then the risk pool in 2014 will be older and sicker than expected. That will cause premiums to skyrocket for 2015 — because insurers base their 2015 premiums on their 2014 experience.

VIDEO Hat Tip - The Gateway Pundit

FOX News:

A new and independent analysis of ObamaCare warns of a ticking time bomb, predicting a second wave of 50 million to 100 million insurance policy cancellations next fall — right before the mid-term elections.

The next round of cancellations and premium hikes is expected to hit employees, particularly of small businesses. While the administration has tried to downplay the cancellation notices hitting policyholders on the individual market by noting they represent a relatively small fraction of the population, the swath of people who will be affected by the shakeup in employer-sponsored coverage will be much broader.

An analysis by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, shows the administration anticipates half to two-thirds of small businesses would have policies canceled or be compelled to send workers onto the ObamaCare exchanges. They predict up to 100 million small and large business policies could be canceled next year.

Is it any wonder why Barack Obama no longer refers to his signature piece of legislation as “Obamacare.” Now that Obamacare is a 4-letter word and a disaster, suddenly it has become the “Affordable Healthcare Act”.  Funny how a 37% job approval rating will do that.

GOOD GRIEF … Obamacare/Healthcare.gov Crashes While Sebelius Tries To Sign Person Up At Media Event in Florida

You just can’t make this stuff up … Barack Obama would be so proud of his signature piece of legislation. Who needs SNL skits when you can just watch Obamacare in action?

As reported at CBS – Miami, seven weeks to the day since the troubled Obamacare, Healthcare.gov, website was launched, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was in Miami, meeting with “navigators”and pressing the flesh with the media in tow to bring attention to the public’s clambering for Obamacare and the effectiveness of the site. With the cameras following her, Sebelius went from table to table only to come to one where someone was trying to sign up and the screen read, “the system is temporarily down”. LOL, Good grief. So much for the positive Obamacare photo-op. The Obama gang that couldn’t hoot straight cannot even properly arrange and arranged event.

Even more classic was the response from the navigator,  That happens every day.” She just brushed it off as common place. UNREAL!

Click on pic to watch VIDEO

Sebelius, wearing green, walked through the front doors of North Shore Hospital near Miami Shores where she shook hands with hospital staff and members of the Epilepsy Foundation who are staffing the Obamacare Navigation center housed off the hospital’s lobby. There she met with the team helping South Floridians to sign-up on line or on paper.

“So she is being helpful,” asked the secretary to a couple sitting at one table of a navigator. “Absolutely,” they responded.

At a second table, the secretary met Carmen Salero who was trying to sign up online.  As the secretary and Salero made small talk, CBS4?s Brian Andrews noticed the site crash on the lap top in front of them

“The screen says I’m sorry but the system is temporarily down,” Andrews pointed out.  “Uh oh,” responded the secretary.  “That happens every day,” said Salerno, “it must mean a lot of people are on there trying to get coverage.”

CBS News Poll: Barack Obama’s Job Approval Down to 37%, 57% Disapproval … He’s Fallen and He Can’t Get Up!!!

It’s official, Obama’s job approval ratings are in complete free-fall …

According to the most recent CBS poll, President Barack Obama’s job approval rating has crashed to 37%. YIKES!!!  This is a -20 point job approval. Obama poll numbers have officially fallen and they can’t get up. The president’s poll numbers have hit that threshold where they are in complete collapse. Obama’s job disapproval is now at 57%, the highest yet for the Obamamessiah with CBS polling.  Obama’s overall job approval rating has declined among many demographic groups since last month, including independents (a 12-point drop), men (down 9 points), and women (a 10-point drop). What might be most remarkable is that women now disapprove than approve of the job Obama is doing as president.

Support for Obamacare has fallen drastically as well where even many Democrats have lost faith in it and although a majority of Dems still support it, Obamacare has dropped 16 points from last month, from 74% to 58% . More from Powerline and Obama’s Free-fall. Just how low can he go? President Obama sank to a new low when he and fellow Democrats knowing lied to the American people with every facet of Obamacare and what it would do and now he is paying a political price as Obama sinks to new lows.  However, his ultimate low was his personal promise to “We the People” that they could keep their healthcare, now Americans are scrambling as what to do as they never dreamed they would be canceled.

Things are only going to get worse, as tens of millions lose their existing health insurance and a large majority of Americans, in both the employer-sponsored market and the individual/small group market, find that the cost of health insurance is rising.

CBS News poll

President Obama’s job approval rating has plunged to the lowest of his presidency, according to a new CBS News poll released Wednesday, and Americans’ approval of the Affordable Care Act has dropped it’s lowest since CBS News started polling on the law.

Thirty-seven percent now approve of the job Mr. Obama is doing as president, down from 46 percent in October — a nine point drop in just a month. Mr. Obama’s disapproval rating is 57 percent — the highest level for this president in CBS News Polls.

A rocky beginning to the opening of the new health insurance exchanges has also taken its toll on how Americans perceive the Affordable Care Act. Now, approval of the law has dropped to 31 percent – the lowest number yet recorded in CBS News Polls, and a drop of 12 points since last month. Sixty-one percent disapprove (a high for this poll), including 46 percent who say they disapprove strongly.

Republicans are nearly unanimous in their disapproval of the law, and now more than two-thirds of independents agree. Almost six in ten Democrats continue to support the law, but their support has dropped 16 points from last month – from 74 percent in October to 58 percent today. Support has dropped 11 points among independents and five points among Republicans.

The complete poll can be Read HERE.

Check out the average polling job approval numbers at Real Clear Politic. However, note their average stops at the Quinnipiac poll. Add in the National Journal and Pew Research polls and you have a president with average job approval numbers in the 30′s.

Barack Obama is only left with his liberal buddy Bruce Springsteen serenading him with, I’m Going Down, down, down … The lies and scandals have finally caught up to this president. Take a good look at what would have happened in the 2012 presidential election had Obama actually told the truth, the MSM done their job and the  American voters had done theirs.

 UPDATE I: From The Hill, Obama and Democrats hit new lows and are in complete panic. The lies and Democrat support of the lies have finally caught up to them. There is going to be hell to pay for defrauding the American people.