Rasmussen Reports maintains a daily presidential tracking poll and, as of Sunday, July 10, President Obama’s Approval Index rating was minus-19. If he wasn’t such a narcissist this might bother him, but one gets the impression he is so convinced of his ability to lie his way out of any situation, that he will continue his present trajectory.
The kabuki dance regarding the negotiations over raising the debt ceiling limit provides a useful insight to the workings of Washington, D.C., and the principles—or lack of them—that drive the Republican and Democratic parties.