CNN catches up to Wenzel Strategies, “discovers” Americans feel threatened by Obama’s Administration

The Collins Report ^ | March 1, 2010 | Fritz Wenzel

[jmaroneps37]

Talk about arriving late to the dance! Last week’s breathless CNN news release proclaimed their brand new survey showed Americans had grown worried their own government is a threat to individual rights and freedoms. This report comes after our own Wenzel Strategies polling had shown the same thing – in mid–December.

In fact, Wenzel Strategies has been tracking deterioration in the public’s confidence in government and concern over its increased activism for nearly a year.

Our survey during mid–December, a time of year when Americans are typically upbeat and optimistic about the coming holiday season, found respondents were particularly worried. It showed a significant majority of the public is worried the government is in the process of stealing away our rights as American citizens.

This was one of the findings of the WorldNetDaily.com Freedom Index, a monthly rating that aggregates the results of 10 questions all relating to different freedoms – including freedom of speech, association, and worship. The Freedom Index, instituted in May of last year, took a shocking plunge during the closing months of last year that coincided with the push by Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi to force a sweeping health care reform bill through the Congress on the eve of the holidays.

Though health care reform stalled, at least temporarily in January, the Freedom Index numbers have not recovered. It is doubtful they will any time soon, because just when Obama sounds completely moderate and reasoned, another czar or some Democrat on Capitol Hill announces another radical change to a long–standing policy. The cumulative effect is to stifle all growth.

Both the Wenzel Strategies polling and the CNN poll that confirms the trend clearly point to a greater anxiety in the nation over the specter of radical policies replacing the status quo.

[jmaroneps37]

Wenzel was Zogby's house conservative for many years.

[bunkerhill7]

Well, Duhhhhh!

[combat_boots]

[bgill]

Wenzel is also a year late and a few hundred billion dollars short. He was on radar over 2-3 years ago.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

new survey showed Americans had grown worried their own government is a threat to individual rights and freedoms

Damn right I feel threatened by Obama and his czars. I mean, what is this -- old Russia?? He's creating a tsarist autocracy for himself:

The center of the tsarist autocracy was the person of the tsar himself, a sovereign with absolute powers. The rights of state power in their entire extent belonged to the tsar. Power was further entrusted by him to persons and institutions, acting in his name, by his orders, and within the limits, laid down for them by law.
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Some historians see the traditions of tsarist autocracy as partially responsible for laying groundworks for the totalitarianism in the Soviet Union.
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Obama is creating his totalitarian tsarist autocracy right under our noses, and nobody is saying anything -- especially not anyone in the government! Is it legal for Obama to appoint czars? Where is that written in the Constitution?