Gummint has no constitutional authority to loot the economy in order to bestow a “gift” on anyone.

PS: did you guys read where some federal judge has delayed defunding ACORN saying that Congress violated ACORN’s right to due process before enacting a law that threatened to financially destroy the organization. So the judiciary usurps spending authority granted solely to Congress to decide that some “private” entity has a right to tax money. Wow. Any bets that Justice won’t lift a finger to challenge the ruling?

The truth is that in an election year that SHOULD have been a landslide for Democrats, Obama won with a fairly small 52.7% majority. And since it was the first time Democrats have won the presidency with a majority at ALL in the past 33 years, they behaved as though they had a mandate.

The polls show they clearly dont.

The polls show Americans disapprove of Democrats ON EVERY ISSUE, and trust Republicans more ON EVERY ISSUE.

The fact is that Obama and the Democrats agenda is SO unpopular that they cant pass it even with FILIBUSTER PROOF Democrat majorities.

Some caveats, certainly, are necessarily. Ipsos’ question wording is somewhat ambiguous. For example, among those opposed to the plan, they didn’t provide a clear way to distinguish those who support health care reform but think the plan goes too far, from those who are opposed to health care reform in general. So it doesn’t necessarily follow that the plan would have better numbers if it were more liberal (by containing a robust public option, etc.)

And it doesn’t follow that if the plan was more free-market oriented, that all of the 31% would be against it. I believe the question was targeting the current reform proposals and not any other proposal.

The only thing this shows me is that extreme Regressives are not on board with the current plan.

— H.L. Mencken

Why try to out do the master? We are divided between self responsibility and the welfare state. There is very little time left before the tipping point for state socialism is reached. We will still be a divided nation of Politburo and government agents above and away from the entitlement fed masses who can not get enough and are not allowed to go it alone.

The gift that keeps on taking (and taking and taking…).

I don’t know about this exact poll but here is a very smiliar poll:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/12/in-polls-much-opposition-to-health-care.html

Nate Silver does his usual excellent job breaking down the numbers.

Quote:
a significant minority of about 25 percent of the people who opposed the plan — or about 12 of the overall sample — did so from the left; they thought the plan didn’t go far enough.

I guess when you’re an evil, elitist, handmaiden of lies sitting atop a $100 million dollar San Francisco real estate fortune, it actually seems reasonable to characterize a law that forces the rest of us to invest in the Left’s vastly superior ideas for our collective well-being under threat of incarceration as a “Christmas gift.”

Yes, Sean A. It’s a Christmas gift for fascism.

Had the Democrats delayed the “stimulus,” maybe Americans would have seen it for the big government boondoggle it was?

We’re about to find out, as the FascistsDemocrats push Porkulus II. I think the answer is in your “maybe”. I think more Americans will see through it this time, but still not enough to stop it. It will unfortunately take phase 2 of the financial crisis, the hyperinflationary depression that the Fascists’Democrats’ policies are hurtling America toward as we speak, to make most people see.

Have you ever heard a bigger pile of yellow manure? Between this and Climategate this it turning into a Christmas to remember!

Best wishes,
-MFS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiBaMPdQvLw&feature=player_embedded

I guess when you’re an evil, elitist, handmaiden of lies sitting atop a $100 million dollar San Francisco real estate fortune, it actually seems reasonable to characterize a law that forces the rest of us to invest in the Left’s vastly superior ideas for our collective well-being under threat of incarceration as a “Christmas gift.” I don’t claim to be Emily Post, but I would personally consider it rude if my neighbor stole by ATM card, drained my bank account, spent a week slung up at the Ritz Carlton in New Orleans, and then showed up at my door with a box of Cafe du Monde beignet mix and said, “Merry Fuc*in’ Christmas.” Seriously, who do these people think they are?

I now await Tano’s explanation for why the CNN poll showing 61% of Americans disapprove of Obamacare actually means that they love Obamacare and the entire fascist Democrat agenda.