The Good News? Republicans continue to get blamed for the government shutdown.

The Bad News? They don’t know how to snatch victory from the jaws of dooms-dayers.

Talk about ‘feeling the pain’. During the shutdown…the market went up (2.4%), gov’t workers got a two-week paid vacation, and interest rates went down (1/2%).

Democrats revealed they’ll do anything to force Americans to accept a healthcare law they hate, just as long as they don’t have to share in the pain the rest of us will feel.

Market up…paid vacations…interest rates down…Democrats won’t protect you.

Yeah – real tough message for Republicans to articulate.

We desperately need a network media outlet.

Anybody know the Koch Brothers phone number?

In today’s political climate, dealing with National polling is like dealing with sour milk.

Republicans in Congress should remember the 1st Rule For Sour Milk…

…stop drinking – there’s no need to drink the whole glass, once confirmed it’s sour.

Push-polling was used to force gov’t-shutdown blame on Republicans, who drank that sour-milk polling and decided ‘enough’, even though BlueCollar showed them the way.

The Washington Examiner verified our analysis of the bogus NBC-WSJ poll here and here. We exposed its Democrat-weighted bias, and the underlying rot in their policies.

(And, we thank the Examiner’s Mark Tapscott for acknowledging our efforts to do so.)

Sunday we exposed the failure linkage that puts the lie to that push-poll intent, which was to shackle the fault of a gov’t shutdown around throats of House Republicans.

Government needs money to operate. Our Constitution requires money drawn from the Treasury to be done by appropriations. The House GOP passed appropriation bills.

The Democrat-controlled Senate refused to give those bills an up-or-down vote…thus shutting down the Federal government they took an oath to serve. It bears repeating…

Democrats, trampling the Constitutional process, shut down the Federal government.

Yet, the NBC-WSJ poll ignores any Congressional Democrat role, only asking those polled if Obama or ‘the Republicans in Congress’ were to blame for the shutdown.

What honest poll does that? More important (in light of upcoming negotiations), can the Congressional Republicans articulate this very basic argument next time?

In a few months, gov’t funding and the debt-ceiling will be back in the spotlight.

Plan A:

The House GOP should make sure the Senate quickly receives similar defund-delay appropriations bills as went through earlier this month, with a clear message…

No Senate bill will be considered until they first give the House bills an up-or-down vote.

Then push the message that the appropriations process is being held up by Democrats, because they won’t accept O’care themselves, and won’t give individuals a break like they gave the unions, the Congress, the insurance companies, and businesses.

And when the push-polling starts (and you can bet that it will), ask the American people why a Democrat-controlled Senate is afraid to vote on legitimate House bills.

After all, if GOP appropriations are so bad for America, shouldn’t Senate Democrats be just itching to vote them down, so they can proudly brag about it after?

Besides, the House GOP isn’t afraid to reciprocate and vote on Senate legislation.

Or, Plan B:

House Republicans can keep drinking sour ‘polling milk’…and cave once again.

A Democrat Congressman refers to conservative lawmakers as ‘domestic enemies’…

Message to Democrats…

…real domestic enemies are those who violate & trample our U. S. Constitution…

…the bedrock of our country.

Conservative GOP lawmakers follow the Constitution…that can’t be said for Democrats.

Example:

House Republicans passed appropriations recently to fund the federal gov’t. Senate Democrats refused to honor the process that required bringing those bills to a floor vote.

Resulting in a shutdown of the Federal government they were elected to serve.

Lest we forget, Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution states: “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

House Republicans passed appropriations…according to the Constitution. Senate Democrats refused to bring them to the floor for a vote, dishonoring the Constitution…

…and shutting down our government in the process.

They trampled the Constitution they swore – by oath – to support and defend.

Who’s the real Domestic Enemy here?

Everyone knows Obama is the king of fake Twitter accounts.

So it looks like we can expect a (real) head to roll at the White House…

…looks like somebody on Obama’s staff forgot to fake O’care signups.

Now that a Freedom of Information Act request for enrollment numbers has been filed, we expect that oversight will be ‘corrected’ post-haste.

Interested ‘fake-account’ internet experts should apply at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Hurry though…no time to waste…those fake enrollees need to show up soon.

No doubt White House operators are standing by.

Andy McCarthy has a definitive article justifying the GOP defund/delay O’care strategy.

In a nutshell, he makes the case that waiting to secure elections is a much less realistic strategy when it comes to the best way to slay the Democrats’ Obamacare dragon.

McCarthy’s a welcome voice of reason, and his supporting logic is strong.

We’ve already exposed the innate weakness of the Democrat position, as defined by an NBC-WSJ poll which reveals even a heavily-weighted bias can’t bolster their agenda.

Add to that what everyone else seems to have missed: the poll questions Q13 through Q18 (re, the shutdown) DID NOT MENTION the Democrat Party, or it’s  involvement.

Respondents were only asked if Obama or ‘Republicans in Congress’ were to blame.

WHY? The Democrat-controlled Senate buffered Obama from House legislation by stone-walling those GOP bills that would otherwise have funded the government.

Democrats wouldn’t allow votes on the legislation, so funding for the gov’t dried up.

A curious lapse? Pollsters had to know of the Democrat Senate’s chicanery. So, you’d think the Democrat Senate would have deserved at least a passing mention?

Sadly, when it comes to polling and pollsters, hidden agenda seems to abound.

Friday, Pollster Zogby graded Obama a B in this fiasco, once the GOP gave in.

Considering a week earlier he graded Obama an F (for the same fiasco), Zogby’s either using a bell curve – or schizophrenia – to grade Obama anywhere near a B now.

We can’t find any Zogby polling internals, and so can’t see how that ‘B’ was justified.

BlueCollar makes no claim to be on the same level as such pollsters…

But considering the NBC-WSJ poll revealed how even over-weighting ‘Democrat’ respondents doesn’t bode well for Obama’s approval ratings…or Obamacare…

…we can only hope voters know when the tea leaves are being read…

…and when they’re being smoked…

As the national media swoons over a Tea Party ‘loss’, it begs the question.

The Democrats own the Senate and the White House. No bill passed by a House GOP would ever get through the Senate unless some lock-step Democrats broke ranks.

Solving a gov’t shutdown and debt ceiling, Democrats claim ‘victory’, yet, controlling the legislative channel to the White House, they knew the outcome was inevitable.

That said, how can a case be made that conservative Republicans ‘lost’ anything?

Focus grew on Democrat Congressmen exempting themselves from O’care, and that Obama gave exemptions and delays to every interest group but American citizens.

It became apparent that Obama actually wanted to inflict pain during the shutdown.

And even bogus ‘outlier’ polls revealed the Democrat agenda was taking a beating.

Which means the week’s ‘GOP-loser’ stories are meant more to demoralize and deflate the Tea Party loyalists, than to narrate a real analysis of the debt/funding negotiations.

The real test for winners & losers will be the midterm elections Nov 2014.

Up to then, it’s all about political skirmishes and positioning. And, with national media in the Democrat corner, Republicans must be creative in getting their message heard.

In our opinion, the GOP rolled Democrats, by getting them to buy ‘temporary’ deals.

For any election, communication is key; the Republicans have few tools to get media attention. Temporary deals constantly need negotiation, giving them a great ‘tool’.

Expect more ‘2-month solutions’ for debt-ceiling and gov’t funding negotiations, which is the only way the GOP can get their policies any media attention for the next 12 months.

Thanks to conservative Congressmen, looks like the Democrats lost more in this deal.

With 4 to 6 more messaging ‘opportunities’, the GOP position must be effectively honed to maximize each and every national dialogue before the November 2014 elections.

There’s another reason to be hopeful…

Democrats attack those they fear most.

Good news is, the Tea Party welcomes the fight.

A thought-provoking article in The Washington Examiner explains polling accuracy.

And might reveal a HUGE point many Democrat operatives hope will get overlooked…

What happens when a poll so heavily weighted against one Party doesn’t yield what should have been a proportionately-weighted opinion skew?

The NBC-WSJ poll was heavily weighted Democrat (+11%) vs Republicans.

Let’s play WHAT IF…?

What if we leveled polling, with even numbers questioned in each Party? Let’s remove 5.5% from Democrats, add 5.5% Republicans, and adjust responses accordingly.

Q4 asked for Approve/Disapprove comments about how Obama’s doing his job. 48% disapproved, 47% approved. Re-adjusted: 53.5% disapprove, 41.5% approve

Q8 asked about congressional election preferences for Nov 2014. 47% said Democrat, 39% said Republican. Re-adjusted: 44.5% want Republicans, 41.5% Democrats

Q10 asked if gov’t should do more to solve problems, or less, leaving it to individuals and businesses to solve them. 52% said gov’t is the answer, 44% said businesses.

Re-adjusted: 49.5% favor businesses & individuals, 46.5% favor government

Q16 asked if Obama’s being a strong leader, or pushing his own political agenda ahead of what’s good for the country. 46% said ‘leader’, 51% ‘putting agenda before country’.

Re-adjusted: 40.5% strong leader, 56.5% Obama’s putting agenda before country 

Q21 asked if respondents thought the Obamacare law was a good idea (38%), or bad idea (43%). Re-adjusted: 32.5% good idea, 48.5% bad idea

Q22 respondents were asked if they agreed or disagreed with Obama refusing to negotiate with Republicans until the gov’t’s re-opened and the debt ceiling’s raised.

40% agreed Obama shouldn’t negotiate…43% disagreed, saying he should.

Re-adjusted: 34.5% agree, 48.5% disagree, saying Obama should negotiate!

Now, who’s REALLY in trouble here, when the playing field is level…?

• Obama’s disapproval rating 12% higher than his approval rating;
• Nov-2014 election preference: Republicans by 3% over Democrats;
• Big Government v Free Enterprise for solutions: Free Enterprise, by 3%;
• Is Obama putting his agenda before the Nation’s needs? Yes, by 15%;
• Is Obamacare a good idea, or bad idea? BAD IDEA, by 16%;
• Is Obama’s refusal to negotiate with GOP okay? NO, by 14%.

Some would argue more Americans identify as Democrat than they do as Republicans, so if polling is representational, it skews Democrat. But that’s 3%-5%…not 11%!

It doesn’t change the significance that much; when you add in the fact that those polled weren’t asked if they even knew the GOP position, the pendulum swings GOP.

(Besides, the poll’s +/-3% margin of error could wipe out a +4% Democrat advantage.)

Plus, in the shutdown-polled narrative, Democrats aren’t mentioned, just Obama. We’ve seen and heard first hand what happens when criticizing Obama’s policies.

‘Race demagogues’ go unhinged. Would being branded ‘racist’ sway opinion? You bet.

In the final analysis, Democrats don’t want people reading this ‘writing on the wall’.

From the BlueCollarPerspective, we kind of enjoyed this exercise.

We’ll call this new game ‘Screwing-the-Skew’, and look for more polling to play with.

After all, why should the Democrats have all the fun?

Now, if only some of those GOP Congressmen and Senators would get on board…

File this under “You’ve GOT To Be Kidding”…!

Senate Democrats appear to have carved out a 1-year O’care delay for unions.

So, now Democrats and Obama have made O’care delay/cost concessions for…

• Businesses (by delaying the employer mandate);
• Insurance companies (by delaying caps on out-of-pocket and deductible costs);
• Congress (who exempted themselves from the costs of Obamacare by arranging a subsidy fix with Obama’s Office of Personnel Management); and, now,
• Unions, who seem to have a deal delaying reinsurance costs for a year.

The only party in Obamacare NOT getting special treatment…is YOU!!

How is it the Republicans are that message-challenged they can’t convince Americans they’re being rolled by Democrats, who carve out exemptions for everyone else?

Any Republican Senator accepting this deal should be recalled.

And any Democrat who doesn’t see this is wrong, who doesn’t see that the Individual Mandate in O’care should be delayed a year, deserves the Party screwing them.

Democrats have turned Obamacare into No Special Interest Group Left Behind.

Word has it Congressional Republicans are all in a lather over the latest poll showing they’re being blamed for the govt shutdown more than the President and Democrats.

They should relax…as usual, a skewed-Democrat poll; heavily weighted Democrat (+11% vs Republican), and 20% govt workers (2.5x more than the American avg).

And, after reading the 17-page poll, it’s evident no one was asked if they knew what the Republican position was in the current negotiations – just asking who was to blame.

With polling heavily weighted Democrat, with Obama and his media minions misstating the GOP position, it would be shocking if Republicans WEREN’T blamed.

What the media won’t tell you: the poll showed respondents think O’care was a bad idea, that Obama’s pushing his own agenda, and more disapprove of him than approve.

Even heavily weighted to favor Democrats!

Republicans have two simple and fair demands from Democrats and Obama…

House Republicans demand a 1-year delay of O’care’s individual mandate. Democrats gave Business a 1-year delay…individual citizens deserve the same break.

House Republicans demand Congress shouldn’t exempt themselves from O’care…they should have to comply with the law just like everyone. Who can argue against that?

If polled respondents actually knew this, the results would have been very different.

Call your Republican Congressman, and tell them to stand strong.

As with everything else about this administration, ‘default’ talk is a lie.

But of course, Democrats won’t let truth and facts get in the way.