Blame Obama Backfires as Disapproval of repugican Shutdown Tactics Surges to 70%

The repugican plan to blame Obama for the government shutdown is completely backfiring as the new ABC/Washington Poll poll shows disapproval of the repugican cabal's shutdown tactics has surged…

 

Oopsie. 

The repugicans were planning on blame for the repugican shutdown being shifted to Democrats as time went on, but a new Post-ABC poll shows that in week 2, more Americans disapprove of the repugican cabal’s tactics. Disapproval “shot up to 70 percent, with 51 percent disapproving ‘strongly,’” according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
At the time, President Obama’s approval rating went up a few notches. Or, as Ted Cruz likes to call it, “Winning repugican Style.”
The poll asked the question, Q: Do you approve or disapprove of the way The repugicans in Congress are handling negotiations over the federal budget? Just 24% approved, with 70% disapproving. That’s moving in the wrong direction for the repugican cabal, since in the polling from September 25-29, 63% disapproved of repugicans and 26% approved.
“Q: Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling negotiations over the federal budget?” 45% approve to 51% who disapprove, which is an up from the 41% approval to 50% disapproval in the September 25-29th poll.
The repugicans have 51% who disapprove strongly. That number grew from 42% in the September 25-29 poll.
This is that phenomenon that repugicans bank on – the blame for “gridlock” and “shutdown” gets spread around, especially with our media reporting “he said she said” style instead of fact checking. So repugicans take a hit. The repugicans bank on the “both sides do it” false equivalency meme that our media likes to embrace. But even the white knight of false equivalency might not be able to save the repugican cabal this time, because polls are also showing them losing the House in 2014 against generic Democrats.
Yes, it’s early for 2014 predictions and the repugican cabal is no doubt soothing itself with dreams of gerrymandered safe districts and the short term memories of the American voters, but if they let this shutdown continue and default on the debt ceiling, they can forget 2014. They are already facing challenges in red states due to their unprecedented failure of governing responsibility.
It should be noted that the poll question itself is a misleading one. Do you approve or disapprove of the way the cabal is handling “negotiations over the federal budget”? That’s not what’s going on. That is how repugicans are framing what’s going on, but it’s not what’s going on.
A) No one is “negotiating”. B) repugicans refused to come to budget conference 18 times, preferring to wait until they had two hostages in their crosshairs. C) This is not about the federal budget; it’s about whether or not one party should be allowed to hold the government hostage when they lose elections. D) ObamaCare is unrelated to the federal budget. It’s a law that already passed and was vetted by both the Supreme Court and the voters. If this is about the “federal budget” why did repugicans shutdown the government over ObamaCare?
So, even within the framework of this poorly worded, repugican narrative oriented question, repugicans are still losing support for the way they are handling things. Meanwhile, Obama’s approval over his handling of it is moving skyward. If Obama is the enemy of repugicans, this means they are losing their battle against this President.