Agreed, however Obama can — and will — make things worse by stifling the progressive opposition.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gas-prices-sink-obamas-ratings-on-economy-bring-parity-to-race-for-white-house/2012/03/11/gIQAuhYO6R_story.html

No connection whatsoever. Move along people, nothing to see here.

Gee, we acquired all those oil reserves for BP, Exxon, et al. and that’s the thanks we get.

This government can do some thing about all these problems – unemployment, gas prices, and every thing else. They simply will not.

Some of them may actually know what it would take, but it isn’t lucrative, and it surely isn’t safe.

Face the cold, hard truth folks – Obama won’t fix any thing and neither will the Republicans.

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts

President Barack Obama, battered by rising gas prices, a lagging economy that resists recovery and foreign policy missteps in Afghanistan, fell nine dramatically in public approval in a poll released Monday.

Nice going, though, since if you Google Obama and dumpster the Capitol Hill Blue article come up first.

Dumpsters, of course, are where garbage and refuse is put to be collected and permanently disposed of. How a rating can be in a dumpster and sent to the co-generation plant to be burned is beyond me, but then again I may be missing something obvious.

I do have a point to raise besides picking on the editors.

I think certain people may be in for a big surprise. Among them are those who identify themselves as Republicans, those for whom Obama can do nothing even worth the resale value of snot, and those for whom no politician except perhaps Ron Paul can every do anything even spit worthy.

I know you are waiting with baited breath for me to tell you why. After all, those who read my comments consider me the be all and end all of political sages.

Anyone running against Obama who is currently staking their vote-worthiness on the conditions described in the article above has to be counting on things not getting significantly better prior to the election. I have no doubt they are hoping they get worse.

If by design or luck, or a combination of the two, gas prices decline to $3.25 a gallon and are still heading down, and if unemployment is approaching a real world 7.5 %, and private sector job growth continues to show upward momentum, and last and for most people, least, Obama decides to hasten the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, all the Republicans will be left with is their base who hate Obama because they are convinced he’s not a true freedom loving Christian American.

Of course nature can produce an earthquake, or there could be a terrorist attack, and this would provide the Republicans with something compelling to blame Obama for.

Oh well, maybe during the “official” campaign.