A recent AP-Gfk poll showed that Obama's approval ratings were dropping. Of course, the mass media and all of it's talking heads thinks this is news. In this day in age when news has become entertainment, they have to sensationalize everything. There's nothing new, exciting, sensation or surprising about this drop in approval ratings. Obama knew it would happen. His advisors knew it would happen. His administration knew it would happen. The Democrats and Republicans knew it would happen. Pretty much every political analyst out there knew it would happen, even the ones who pretended to be shocked and awed on television.

Obama had a high approval rating when he first got elected, of course because of the historic and inspirational nature of the event. But then the world went back to real life where the economy is still bad, and it's going to take a while to recover. The euphoria of the inspirational event has passed, and now we are confronted with reality. Obama knew that when he got elected. And he knows it will probably drop even further. Of course, his team is going to try to manage it as best as possible. But it will probably never rise to the level it once did. That's okay though because it was pretty high to begin with.

President Obama's high approval ratings meant that he had enough political capital to do a lot in his first 100 days, and he did. He is continuing to do so. The reason he is trying to pass the Health Care Reform package quickly through Congress is because he needs to capitalize in his still good approval ratings to get this through, or he might not get another chance. Also, he needs to do it early, because most Americans are against it, even the ones who voted for him. Just like most things, President Obama is counting on the fact that, after he passes this bill that not many Americans like, they will forget it in 2 years when the next election cycle rolls through.

All the stuff that most Americans don't want, like this Health Care Reform bill, President Obama will try to pass now and take his hit in approval ratings while they are still high and he has time to recover. But looking at how long it's taking for the economy to recover, his approval ratings might continue to go down and may not recover, so Presiden Obama has to do what he's going to do now.  Again, it's clear that the Health Care Reform Bill is not popular with the public and it's the local, state and congressional officials who will suffer for it in the mid-term elections.  Democrat congressmen and senators, governors and other state officials who are up during the mid-term elections will be the sacrificial lambs for the Obama Administrations agenda to push unpopular bills like Health Care Reform and other liberal, socialist-leaning policies.

For the sacrifice, Obama will get his liberal and socialist-leaning bills passed at the expensive of his party loyals, and win the loyalty of liberal power brokers, lobbyists and the like in Washington as well as abroad.