Inside the Beltway: The toilet factor and Biden’s poll numbers

NEWS AND OPINIONS:

Well, at least they didn’t invent “sewage” or “sink”.

“Biden’s approval ratings are still in the toilet,” noted a top headline on Election Central, a political news site that ran some telling numbers from the new Quinnipiac University survey.

“Americans give President Joe Biden negative job approval rating, as 36% approve of the job he is doing, while 54% disapprove,” the pollster said in the analysis, noting that registered voters echoed the same sentiment.

“After the midterm elections, where the Democrats did not perform as badly as predicted, you would think that President Biden would enjoy an increase in his approval ratings. Not so, according to Pyatinnitsky, as the president’s poll numbers continue to linger in the mid-30s and the country faces fuel shortages this winter. The verdict on how Biden has handled crisis after crisis has been poor — and his leadership in the White House is non-existent,” he wrote Nate Ashworthfounder and editor-in-chief of the site.

“Pyatinnitsky respondents were also asked their opinions on specific issues, such as waging war in Ukraine, climate change, foreign policy, and the economy. Biden is underwater on all of them,” he said.

Indeed, the numbers speak volumes. Mr. Biden’s approval rating for his handling of the economy is 62%, his foreign policy rating is 54%, and 49% of respondents disapprove of his response to climate change.

“This is a tremendous job that Mr. Biden is doing in all directions. Once again, the numbers underscore that Democrats held off a massive red wave on Election Day not because of Mr. Biden’s popularity, but despite his shortcomings as president. He gets bad marks question after question,” Mr Ashworth said.

Find his website at USpresidentialelectionnews.com.

“42 DAYS”

Chamber of the Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and six Republican colleagues visited the southern border this week to thank U.S. Border Patrol agents for their vigilance and brief the Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas “that’s enough.”

Mr. McCarthy has a schedule to follow.

“After 42 days, House Republicans have officially ended one-party rule and held accountable those responsible for the border disaster,” Mr. McCarthy said in a written statement released by Inside the Beltway.

“In 42 days, House Republicans, led by Reps. James Comer and Jim Jordan, will investigate every order, every action and every omission to determine whether to open an impeachment inquiry into Secretary Mayorkas. In 42 days, the Biden administration will once again be accountable to the American people. This is the commitment of House Republicans to America,” Mr. McCarthy said.

He made his announcement on Tuesday; 42 days from that date – January 3 – when the US House of Representatives meets at noon.

CRUSHED

Fox News just flipped the switch on its “American Christmas Tree” tribute to New York’s police and firefighters — especially the NYPD’s 32nd Precinct, which lost detectives Wilbert Moreau and Jason Rivera this year, and EMS Station 49, which lost Cpl. Alison Russo this year.

And about that tree that stands outside the chain’s national headquarters in Manhattan.

It is 50 feet tall and decorated with 12,000 ornaments and 340,000 lights. The tree has 500 branches, a star-shaped top over 6 feet tall, and over four miles of cord wrapped around it. Made in America, the tree has a patriotic theme of red, white and blue decorations.

VIRTUE 101

One observer looks askance at the profound impact of the “woke” culture on the nation’s schools.

“In traditional cultures, elders consider it their duty to introduce youth to education in virtues. In non-traditional modern cultures, adults feel no such obligation. They expose children to vice – look at all the moral rot in public schools across the country, where teachers, among other things, hand out condoms to students and encourage them to self-mutilate in the name of ‘gender identity’ – and they regularly replace virtuous education with the promotion of virtue.” wrote Georgy Neumayrsenior editor of The American Spectator, in a comprehensive new report.

“The graduates of this bogus education know nothing about the Ten Commandments—public school principals live in dire fear of ACLU lawsuits against even the slightest educational nod to theism—but these students know a lot about environmentalism, feminism, gender politics, racial politics, and the sexual revolution.” , – advised Mr. Neumayr.

“The worst sins, according to this distorted education, do not entail a violation of the teachings of Christianity, but contradict the supposedly correct relationship that the ruling class expects from citizens. A public school principal wouldn’t dare censure a high school student for having an abortion or having premarital sex, but many principals would not hesitate to censure students for what they wore Donald Trump-clothing or participation in high-profile conservative marches and protests,” he said.

“Out of this ungodly culture of virtue without virtue that permeates high schools and colleges has emerged a strange generation of snobs and prodigies who possess progressive swagger but lack basic decency,” Mr. Neumeier wrote.

“A generation of young people raised on vices rather than virtues, and PC attitudes rather than basic moral duties, has produced Biden’s America, an increasingly nihilistic country, and its founding fathers, had they lived today, they would regret founding it,” he later concluded.

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POLL DU JOUR

• 78% of American adults who plan to do their holiday shopping will shop at “big businesses.”

• 74% of these shoppers will shop online; 67% plan to shop in-store in person.

• 66% will shop on Cyber ​​Monday; 59% will shop on Small Business Saturday; 56% will shop on Black Friday.

• 19% say they are not doing any holiday shopping this season.

SOURCE: A Bankrate survey of 1,936 American adults planning holiday shopping, conducted Nov. 2-4 and released Tuesday. Respondents could give several answers.