{"id":10307,"date":"2013-10-14T12:38:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T19:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10307"},"modified":"2013-10-14T12:37:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T19:37:37","slug":"new-poll-gop-approval-keeps-plummeting-old-numbers-obama-more-conservative-on-government-spending-than-gop-predecessors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10307","title":{"rendered":"New Poll: GOP Approval Keeps Plummeting; Old Numbers: Obama More Conservative on Government Spending Than GOP Predecessors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the idiotic Republican shutdown continues and debt ceiling collapse looms, GOP approval ratings plummet yet again in latest poll. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2013\/10\/14\/poll-republicans-losing-no-win-game\/\">new survey from ABC\/<i>WaPo<\/i><\/a> finds a stunning 74% of Americans disapprove of the way the GOP is handling budget negotiations, that&#8217;s up 11 points from before the shutdown started.<\/p>\n<p>But more important to remember, as all of this idiocy drags on &#8212; and as Dems consider some form of &#8220;concessions&#8221; to allow the GOP the face-saving measures they need to get out of this mess &#8212; are numbers like the following, underscoring just how idiotic and hypocritical all this nonsense actually is&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Please RT : 3 Presidents and only 1 has slowed the GROWTH in Federal Spending. cc: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ToConservatives\">@ToConservatives<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edshow\">@edshow<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/NCV6XRrLvh\">pic.twitter.com\/NCV6XRrLvh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ClassicalProgressive (@ProgressEconomy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProgressEconomy\/statuses\/389809373737799680\">October 14, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the idiotic Republican shutdown continues and debt ceiling collapse looms, GOP approval ratings plummet yet again in latest poll. The new survey from ABC\/WaPo finds a stunning 74% of Americans disapprove of the way the GOP is handling budget negotiations, that&#8217;s up 11 points from before the shutdown started. But more important to remember, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[505,192,405,390,188,300,415],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tea-party","category-accountability","category-bush-legacy","category-economy","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-republicans","category-ronald-reagan","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10307"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}