: SO--You wimps...Just When are you going to pull your butt off
: the couch and DO something about it... hummmm..
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: A recent Fox News poll shows more than two-thirds of American
: voters believe the federal government is “out of control”
: and a threat to their liberties. Meanwhile, a separate
: survey commissioned by WND revealed that more than half of
: the public supports impeaching President Obama for a series
: of explosive scandals: spying on journalists, IRS targeting
: of conservative and Tea Party groups, as well as what has
: become known as “Benghazigate.” Other major scandals such
: as the administration's Fast and Furious gun-running to
: cartels, executing Americans without trial, and
: unconstitutional wars were not addressed in the surveys.
: According to the Fox News poll, released on May 21 and
: conducted under the guidance of two polling firms, a
: whopping 68 percent of likely voters “feel like the federal
: government has gotten out of control and is threatening the
: basic civil liberties of Americans.” Almost half of
: Democrats agree that Washington, D.C., is out of control as
: well — more than the number who disagreed. Just a quarter
: of respondents did not feel that way, while four percent
: said they had mixed feelings or it “depends.”
: Some six in 10 likely voters, meanwhile, believe the Justice
: Department went “too far” in seizing records from
: journalists, while less than a third did not think so. Even
: among Democrats, only 50 percent approved of disgraced
: Attorney General Eric Holder, who is currently in criminal
: contempt of Congress for covering up the deadly Fast and
: Furious gun-running scandal.
: However, among the three most recent and explosive scandals
: swirling around the embattled administration, more
: respondents felt the IRS targeting of conservative
: organizations was the most concerning. That was followed by
: the White House’s handling of the terrorist attack on a
: U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi. Seizing phone records
: from reporters was viewed as the most concerning of the
: three issues by 21 percent of respondents.
: The Fox survey also found that disapproval of the president’s
: job performance had soared above 50 percent for the first
: time in a year, with 15 percent of Democrats disapproving.
: Obama’s credibility among the public, meanwhile, hit new
: lows, with less than half of respondents saying the
: president was honest and trustworthy. About the same number
: did think Obama was honest.
: Congress, however, was extraordinarily unpopular — far more
: unpopular than even the scandal-plagued president.
: According to the poll, more than three-fourths of likely
: voters disapproved of the job lawmakers were doing, with
: just 16 percent saying they approved. It was not
: immediately clear why Congress remains so unpopular among
: Republicans and Democrats.
: The WND survey, conducted by Wenzel Strategies and also
: released this week, found even more astounding sentiments
: among voters. According to the poll, half or nearly half of
: those surveyed said Obama should be impeached over the
: scandals currently swamping the administration. On
: Benghazi, slightly more than 50 percent said they thought
: Obama should be impeached — including more than a fourth of
: Democrats.
: The poll, which has a margin of error of 4.63 percent, also
: found that almost half of respondents — 49 percent — agreed
: that the president should be impeached over the IRS
: targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups. Almost one
: out of four Democrats thought the scandal merited
: impeachment as well, according to the survey. IRS Director
: of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner pled the Fifth
: Amendment in congressional hearings this week, adding fuel
: to the fire as congressional investigations continue.
: Finally, about 48 percent of respondents said impeaching the
: president would be appropriate in light of the Department
: of Justice’s controversial seizure of phone records
: belonging to AP reporters and editors. More than a fourth
: of Democrats also thought the media scandal, which has
: since extended to Fox News after one of its reporters was
: targeted, merited impeachment.
: “It may be early in the process for members of Congress to
: start planning for impeachment of Barack Obama, but the
: American public is building a serious appetite for it,”
: Fritz Wenzel of Wenzel Strategies, which did the telephone
: poll last week, was quoted as saying by WND. “Half or
: nearly half of those surveyed said they believed Obama
: should be impeached for the trifecta of scandals now
: consuming Washington.”
: WND also cited numerous lawmakers who have openly discussed
: impeachment, along with commentators and experts who
: suggested that the time had come. Among those who have
: discussed impeaching the president was Democrat former Rep.
: Dennis Kucinich, who proposed impeachment over Obama’s
: unconstitutional war on Libya.
: There was more bad news for the president in other polls, too.
: Another Fox News poll released on May 22, the day after the
: survey that found more than two thirds of Americans thought
: the government was “out of control,” revealed more trouble
: for the administration and its agenda on multiple fronts.
: On the economy, for example, about half of those surveyed
: said Obama’s ideas were “bad” and too many had been
: implemented. Only 41 percent said the president’s ideas
: were good but not enough had come to pass.
: Among the most important findings: 56 percent of respondents
: felt scrapping ObamaCare would be better than leaving it in
: place. Just one third thought the statute should be kept,
: and the trend is moving further against the
: administration’s controversial healthcare takeover. More
: than half of those surveyed said they would be worse off
: under ObamaCare — including a fourth of Democrats — while
: only 26 percent thought they would be better off.
: Despite the survey findings published by Fox News and WND,
: polls from the liberal-minded establishment media released
: in recent days suggested that the administration’s public
: support had remained essentially unchanged amid the
: mounting tsunami of scandals. For instance, a survey
: commissioned by CNN, which has been losing credibility
: faster than other “mainstream” outlets in recent years amid
: a series of major mistakes, put the president’s approval
: rating at 53 percent. Still, more than seven out of ten
: said the IRS behavior was unacceptable, and 37 percent
: thought the IRS was acting on White House orders.
: Another poll by the Washington Post and ABC released this week
: found that about 51 percent approved of Obama, with 44
: percent disapproving. However, that survey also found that
: more than 55 percent of respondents believed the IRS
: scandal was a deliberate attempt at harassment, and that
: the administration was trying to cover something up about
: the Benghazi attack.
: The extremely liberal Huffington Post, however, noted that its
: polls put the president’s approval rating at closer to 47.5
: percent — well below other liberal-leaning media outlets’
: survey results. “HuffPost,” which has developed a
: reputation as a far-left defender of the president on par
: with MSNBC, also reported on other polls that showed
: Americans were more interested in news about the economy
: than the three major scandals swirling around Obama.
: The varying results between different polls showed strong
: differences based on how questions were phrased, for
: example. However, the latest numbers still suggest that the
: establishment media’s oft-repeated claims that
: administration has remained relatively unscathed by the
: scandals are almost certainly not accurate.
: Numerous media outlets, including left-leaning establishment
: publications, have been openly speculating about where all
: of these scandals may lead. Some analysts, even among
: openly liberal sources, have suggested that the president
: will inevitably be impeached. Others speculated that Obama
: may try to offer Holder’s scalp in an effort to protect his
: presidency. How all of it will play out, however, remains
: to be seen.
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: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/15496-impeachment-support-soars-as-voters-say-feds-out-of-control