National Journal Online has just posted its latest polling results taken from political bloggers on the left and right.
This week’s questions and answer choices were as follows:
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Grade (A, B, C, D or F) President Obama’s job performance so far this year.
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Grade (A, B, C, D or F) congressional Republicans’ job performance so far this year.
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Grade (A, B, C, D or F) congressional Democrats’ job performance so far this year.
Participating as one of the "right-leaning" bloggers, on the first question, I gave the Magic Obama a D, commenting,
"While ‘job performance’ is in the eye of the beholder, I don’t see one shred of evidence that anything’s changed since Jan. 20, except my children’s great-grandchildren’s children will get even heftier tax bills. Non-answers and an air of evasiveness seem to be standard fare when he or any of his mouthpieces are confronted with tough questions. Take away the teleprompter and, er, ah, um, Obama’s uhhh, not… er, ah, that good."
To the second, rating Congressional Republicans, I gave them a C, noting that
"On the economy and the bailout boondoggle, other than the three usual suspects in the Senate (and Judd Gregg), the Republicans are doing just what they should. They left me rather underwhelmed and disappointed by their performance during most confirmation hearings to this point. Where were the fireworks we’ve all come to love in Senate hearings for the last eight years? A little noise from our guys would have been nice."
I gave the Congressional Democrats an A because
"They won, and they are acting like they did. I don’t blame them. The question is whether Americans at large are really in tune with what they have to offer. (My A rating is for using the power that is rightly theirs. I’d give the substance of what they put forth thus far an F.)"
Click here to view all the results. Funny– the "right leaning" bloggers think more highly of the Congressional Republicans than the lefties do of their Democrat counterparts.