The Washington Examiner points out the stunning disconnect between the political elites and the rest of us.
What Obama and too many congressional leaders in both parties still don’t get is that business-as-usual politics is over. A recent Rasmussen Reports survey illustrates how wide the gulf is between the country’s political leadership and most Americans. Sixty-eight percent of ordinary Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction, but 72 percent of the political class contend it is going in the right direction. In a related vein, Gallup recently reported public approval for Congress is now down to 17 percent. Obama has little room to gloat over Congress’ troubles, however, as he is currently in a dead heat with a “generic Republican” 2012 presidential nominee when Rasmussen asks likely voters who they favor in the White House.
