Underpinning the gloom: Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the economy has yet to hit bottom, a sharply higher percentage than the 53% who felt that way in January.
The sour national mood appears all-encompassing and is dragging down ratings for the GOP too, suggesting voters above all are disenchanted with the political establishment in Washington. Just 24% express positive feelings about the Republican Party, a new low in the 21-year history of the Journal’s survey. Democrats are only slightly more popular, but also near an all-time low.
The results likely foreshadow a poor showing in November’s mid-term for Democrats, whose leaders had hoped the public would grow more optimistic about the economy and, as a result, more supportive of the party agenda. Now, despite the weak Republican numbers, the survey shows frustrated voters on the left are less interested than impassioned voters on the right to in the election.
There really are two answers to these outrages that almost never get discussed. The first is the insanity of “prosecutorial immunity.” The idea that Prosecutors who are most often elected political figures keen on reelection and public pandering should be able to be shielded from the consequences of politically motivated or public appeasing prosecutions is absolutely insane. Prosecutors should get jail time for unprincipled prosecutions.
The second remedy is for judges to immediately void verdicts in which there is clear evidence of ineffective counsel and place the burden on prosecutors, not defendants, to undo it.
For some reason and as is obvious, the above post appeared in the wrong place. Sorry. Perhaps the Elves can make it disappear.
I will believe the economy’s improving when I see well-paying jobs move into the San Joaquin Valley, where my wife and I live……and even with the economic aid that we’re supposedly getting from the government……that’s not happening in Merced County. All we’ve gotten is promises. We don’t want minimum wage jobs here; we want decent wages and salaries for our people.
Most of all, we want economic investment here, and that’s not on the horizon.