"Welcome To The Land Of The Remaining 29%"
(photo: Beach Peanuts)
A new Quinnipiac University poll came out today, and as expected Gov. Rick Scott is now even more unpopular than he was in April.
The survey found voters overwhelmingly disapproving of his job performance, by 57-29 percent — worse than his 48 percent-35 percent job approval rating in the school’s April poll. That’s the worst job-approval rating for any governor in the 10 states that Quinnipiac surveys.
Even worse, in spite of Scott's attempts to paint such a rosy picture on his $69.7 billion job-killing budget, a whopping 54 percent disagree and feel it's unfair to them, and only 29 percent think it's fair.
None of this is too surprising. When you slash everything from Medicaid to education, killing jobs along the way as well as cutting unemployment benefits for those whose jobs you just axed, you're bound to be unpopular. Scott's well on his way to hurting nearly everyone living in Florida who isn't a big corporation, the larger portion of his base.
Worse still, Scott's also ruffled feathers with the other wing of his base, the Tea Party, in part because he no longer plans to "celebrate" with them as planned when he signs that job-killer tomorrow. Instead Scott has to go in search of that 29 percent who still buy what he's selling to make the most of his budget photo op. He needs a bigger crowd than just the Tea Bags, and Eustis isn't flashy enough anymore I guess. What to do?
Well, he's not going to Disney World, but Scott will head for what some think of as the happiest place on earth, or rather the happiest places for Republicans in the state. The place that welcomes other political pariahs like Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani with open arms, the place where it's kind of like going through customs for Republican candidates in Florida. Even if you're unpopular in the state as a whole, no matter. There's always one place they'll treat the GOP like rock stars. Even Mr. Worst Out Of Ten Governors Surveyed, Rick Scott.
The Villages.
Feeling like a rock star already, at least in his own mind, Scott's in a festive mood like Dr. Evil who's about to sign his lipstick on a pig budget, to borrow a term from another extremely unpopular Governor. He's thrilled with cutting nearly anything good that's left of Florida to the bone, and he's itching to do even more damage tomorrow:
"It's going to be fun," Scott said. "I'm going to use my veto pen."
It's going to be fun? Sounds like Gov. Voldemort is hoping for even higher disapproval numbers. He'll probably get them in short order.
He can say his budget is a "job-creator" all he wants, but the 4,492 soon to be unemployed sure won't see it that way.
He'd better enjoy the spotlight that The Villages provide him while he can. When they start to feel the real effects of Scott's budget, even those "Villagers" will get mighty restless.
28...27......26..........20....................?
