Feeling polarized? No wonder. A new Gallup poll shows an amazing 68-point gap between how Democrats and Republicans rate President Obama's performance in office.
Now, we cats have found cause over time to quibble with Gallup. We think they tend to skew Republican, but how do you screw up numbers like these? Republican approval of the President: 13 percent. Democratic approval: 81 percent. Those are pretty stark differences, and we cats have several thoughts about them.
Specifically, that despite the carping of our friends on the left — and the ridiculous media drumbeat a few months back that he might be challenged in the 2012 primaries — we're unsurprised that President Obama has retained some strong loyalties among Democrats.
Why? Well, not just because of moments in which the President has shone, such as his speech following the Tucson shootings. Or that he's managed to deliver on some key campaign promises from 2008. No, we think it's primarily because of the sputtering fury and anger of the teabaggers and the Republicans' "just say no to everything" opposition.
We cats believe that if the Republicans had not mercilessly, ceaselessly, irrationally and unpatriotically questioned every fiber of Barack Obama's being in the most venal, hateful and petty ways over the last two years, then the President's Democratic numbers would be weaker — because there would be less of a rallying effect in our party without the angry teabagger mob. It's Newton's third law of motion.
Isn't it ironic? A political party dedicated to denying the existence of science and to halting the teaching of science in public schools has hurt itself by ignoring one of the fundamental scientific tenets that kids learn in the fifth grade: For every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.
We cats PURR.
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