Hmmmm.

[jpmassar]

...after the president's supposed worst week ever, with Republicans jumping in glee at the scandals, we find that the president's popularity has inched up, the Democratic Party's popularity is significantly up, and Republicans, at 59 percent unfavorable, are at their highest unpopularity level since CNN started polling the question in 1992.

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[clutch_c]

"...with Republicans jumping in glee."

This, if anything, is the problem for them. They just can't conceal their lack of civility.

[jnala]

I don't see why Obama should be hurt by the IRS thing, given his distance from the wrongdoing, lack of involvement in it, and prompt denunciation of the practices and action to stop them once he learned of them. What should he have done differently?

The AP affair, and the wild overreach and misplaced priorities of the Obama DoJ, are another matter... but the GOP hardly has standing to complain about executive overreach. Part of me would like to see them do so anyway, the other part would be gagging on the hypocrisy too hard.

[jpmassar]

People have a visceral fear of the IRS targeting them. And this targeting was pretty universally condemned. And something about a "buck."

Taken all together I would have expected some hit. Doesn't have to be rational.

[barking_iguana]

It's not just the GOP's lack of civility, it's their utter disregard for truth. They throw so much shit against the wall, people see it in the air and don't even look at the wall to see if it sticks.

[adb_jaeger]

The gop doesn't really have a monopoly on that behavior.