Barack Obama held another presser today, and announced with his usual cool self confident manner that 80% of Americans are in favor of using tax hikes to solve our mounting debt crisis. Upon seeing this, it took me a good long while to quit laughing.  Of course, he says this as though nobody else in America is able to read a poll, or read any of the thousands of reports of polls being conducted on a nauseating basis. Little Barry is now slipping fast into the territory of sad figure losing touch with reality.  What makes this implosion so hard not to watch is his supreme arrogance.  I have not seen before in my lifetime a person so absent ability, so confident in his delivery.   That is saying something, as I have known some real dolts.  From the article linked to above:

That puts 76%, not 80%, somewhere in between the two points.  But Gallup breaks this out more effectively:

• Only/Mostly with spending cuts: 50%

• Only/Mostly with tax increases: 11%

Only 32% prefer a balance between spending cuts and tax increases, which added to the bottom option would still tilt the public far more in favor of spending cuts, 50/43.  Among independents — the most non-ideological group possible in this survey — it’s 51/41, a wider split. This is hardly a public that is “sold, sold!” on tax hikes.
And that’s just in the Gallup poll.  Two months ago, The Hill conducted its own pollthat showed opposition to tax hikes  at 45%, with only 13% favoring an even split between tax hikes and spending cuts to solve the deficit problem, with another 11% supporting a 2/1 split for spending cuts to tax hikes, and 15% for a 3/1 split.  Even under the most liberal (pun intended) definition of “balanced,” only 39% in that poll opted for the idea.
Obama has fallen very clearly out of step with the American public on spending and taxes, and the 80% remark just demonstrates his cluelessness.

Special note to Barack Obama’s handlers: Let him read a newspaper every now and again so that he does not continue making an ass of himself. It has passed embarrassing and moved into the territory of scary sad now. November of 2010 was a restraining order filed by the American people against Barack Obama. He has chosen to ignore it. His support for anything is no where near 80%. Mr. President, you are 15 months away from joining the ranks of McGovern, Carter, and Mondale.

Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.

UPDATE: Just because it seems to fit the President’s view of himself.

UPDATE II: Just when I thought the joke couldn’t sink my opinion of the Democrats any lower, along comes Sheila Jackson Lee (D) Mars to push the outside of that envelope just a little farther. I guess even the amount of money we borrow that we can not afford to is now a racial issue, and not a moment too soon either. It has been well over 48 hours since someone reminded us that anyone who believes in a limited fiscally responsible government that lived up to the Constitutional duties and limitations is in fact a knuckle dragging violent racist.