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Who do you blame for the shutdown?
MSN ^ | 10/01/2013 | MSN

Posted on 10/01/2013 8:42:32 AM PDT by Maelstorm

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To: Maelstorm

25 %

I blame the president.
15,795 votes

25 %

I blame the House GOP.
15,795 votes

3 %

I don’t blame anyone; this is all part of politics.
1,933 votes

47 %

I blame them all.
29,213 votes


21 posted on 10/01/2013 8:50:18 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Maelstorm

Notice the lack of an “I blame the Democrat controlled Senate” option? The Democrats aren’t named at all!
My husband tells me he tried to call Reid’s office a little while ago and the recorded message says the Senator’s phone and email are closed due to the government shutdown! What a coward. If Reid is so sure only the Republicans will be blamed, why not answer the phone?


22 posted on 10/01/2013 8:50:28 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Maelstorm

Hit the polls hard, FRiends. And to anyone who listen and accept your comments, tell them "The democrats in the Senate would rather shut down government than subject themselves to ObamaCare." That's what their vote accomplished; ObamaCare is *that* bad. Don't wait for the main stream media to pass that along to the people.


23 posted on 10/01/2013 8:52:27 AM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Responsibility2nd

Strange way to poll? Each answer has no counterbalance to measure it to.


24 posted on 10/01/2013 8:53:49 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Vendome

Yes, well you know, that’s the problem with you mean republicans!


25 posted on 10/01/2013 8:54:01 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Wiser now

Yes I noticed that. How nice of them to leave Harry Reid out of the mix huh?


26 posted on 10/01/2013 8:54:02 AM PDT by Maelstorm (The political class love diversity and choice only when the its choices they approve of.)
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To: Maelstorm

Who do you blame for the shutdown?

25 %
I blame the president.
15,795 votes

25 %
I blame the House GOP.
15,795 votes

3 %
I don’t blame anyone; this is all part of politics.
1,933 votes

47 %
I blame them all.
29,213 votes

Total Responses: 62,736


27 posted on 10/01/2013 8:54:13 AM PDT by Gator113 (The mighty Bear ate the cowardly rat. Obama must resign.)
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To: cripplecreek

Yeah, where is the option for Democrats??


28 posted on 10/01/2013 8:54:22 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: Maelstorm
The Republican HOR gave the president the perfect face-saving deal. Repeal the medical equipment tax. Put off the individual mandate for one year.

Obama could've avoided the mess of bringing the program out before it was ready, while certain groups got exceptions. The dems not delaying the individual mandate just might be what has voters thinking clearly. That and knowing that increasing a tax on US manufacturing is just plain dumb.

29 posted on 10/01/2013 8:54:50 AM PDT by grania
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To: Maelstorm

Freeped and bumped.


30 posted on 10/01/2013 8:55:09 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (ZeroCare: Make them pay; do not delay.)
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To: Maelstorm

What a piece of crap. Where’s Harry Reid’s name?????


31 posted on 10/01/2013 8:57:51 AM PDT by Phillyred
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To: Maelstorm

Blame them all. Ifthere was no Social Security, medicare, medicaid, food stamps, ‘gubmint’ healthcare, EPA, USPS, the fed, IRS, Dept. of Education, or anything else that did not directly support the defense of the nation, the government would be smaller indeed. Smaller government would mean a realistic level of taxation.

Just get ‘government’ (including state and local) out of the day to day conduct of American life and voila...

Term limits, having to pass laws one at a time instead of bundling, and moving senate seat selections back to the state legislature (pre-1914) would go a long way toward rehabilitating congress also.

KYPD


32 posted on 10/01/2013 8:57:54 AM PDT by petro45acp (It's a fabian thing.....how do you boil a frog? How's that water feelin right about now?)
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To: old and tired

good blame me too then for shutting down the government .shutting down this communist government is a good thing. good going Republicans. all that essential federal government services is Military , border control and that is it . shut everything else down permanently


33 posted on 10/01/2013 9:02:48 AM PDT by rurgan (give laws an expiration date:so the congress has to review every 4 years to see if needed)
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To: Cyber Liberty; Lazmataz

I blame Laz too


34 posted on 10/01/2013 9:04:01 AM PDT by clamper1797 (Evil WILL flourish when good men WILL not act)
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To: InterceptPoint

Not encouraging. If House REPUBS are getting the same blame, then we are screwed. The President & DEMS & MSM are to blame, thew own Obamacare, they own this shutdown... how we doing on Benghazi? Syria cleaning up their chemical weapons? Companies hiring?


35 posted on 10/01/2013 9:05:59 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: Maelstorm

What if I don’t “blame” anyone because I WANT the government to shutdown?


36 posted on 10/01/2013 9:06:31 AM PDT by discostu (This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
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To: Maelstorm

There is no way you’re going to tilt a poll of MSNBC viewer. Don’t waste your time.

Besides, the question is kind of like saying “who do you blame for it being a nice sunny day outside?” I’m grateful for the shutdown, I don’t fear it nor shun it.


37 posted on 10/01/2013 9:07:28 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: Maelstorm
Who do you blame for the shutdown?

25% - I blame the president. - 20,033 votes
25% - I blame the House GOP. - 19,891 votes
03% - I don’t blame anyone; this is all part of politics. - 2,394 votes
47% - I blame them all. - 36,883 votes

How convenient that they leave off the Senate Democrats.

38 posted on 10/01/2013 9:08:20 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Maelstorm

Poll seems gone?


39 posted on 10/01/2013 9:10:43 AM PDT by Engineer1955
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To: stanne

How dare you call me a mean republican!!!!

I resemble that perjorative...

LOL

Going to Costco later and getting some cases of Dog Food for my Mom.


40 posted on 10/01/2013 9:13:05 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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