Joni Balter, last January: "The Obama era of cool government makes Tim Eyman irrelevant":
Obama is the tomorrow guy who envisions a brighter future. Eyman is yesterday, 1990s, early millennial with government as the boogeyman.Since then, President Tomorrow's approval rating here has plunged from 69%-17% to 49%-47%.
Today KPLU reports that 56% of Northwest residents polled "say their state spends too much on services that aren't top priorities." The pollster adds: "We've never seen the negativity towards government at any level higher than it is now."
Voters also say by 68%-24% that the legislature was wrong to suspend taxpayer protection measure I-960, sponsored in 2007 by Tim "Yesterday" Eyman.
Balter admitted last week that last year's "impossibly high" expectations for Obama have taken a 180. Yet she dismisses the Obama era of uncool government as the "rage" of "short-attention-span voters".
Unlike Obama's calmly rational impossibly-high-expectations voters, I guess.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at March 04, 2010 05:42 PM | Email ThisWhen an entrenched Regressive like Balter tries to make rational arguments, she just ends up chasing her tail.
Posted by: Jeff B. on March 4, 2010 07:01 PMShe overturned popular law for her own indulgences.
Right now, the game is 52 Pickup.
Posted by: Patrick Henry on March 4, 2010 11:34 PM