that support and opposition for the bill is now equalized: Posted on 01/29/2009 2:14:02 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
It seems the House passed bill on ’stimulus’ is not going to survive the Senate. First off, no Republicans (rightfully) voted for it and 11 Democrats joined them. Now Rassmussen is showing that support and opposition for the bill is now equalized:
Forty-two percent (42%) of the nation’s likely voters now support the president’s plan, … The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 39% are opposed to it …
3% points is statistically a tie. The fact is Obama and the Dems have promised to fix the economy, but this bill doesn’t do anything for months and years from now. Smart politicians know America has no patience or understanding about how government works and how long things take to get done. So when the economy stubbornly remains bleak it will be the Dems and their false-hope promises who will be on the hook for the failure of DC.
I look forward to the GOP pushing hard on this bill, to the point it could just die. Which is the best path forward, unless Democrats plan to unshackle private industry and individuals with tax cuts and deregulation. Since that is not going to happen, it is best DC do no more harm.
Call and write your senators. Call and write your senators. Call and write your senators.
The Democrats already got $700 billion and have $350 billion left, why in the world do they think they need another $800 billion?
Someone ought to point out that there’s something very curious about a bill much of which won’t actually take effect for years, yet Pelosi and Obama have tried to ram it through in days, as if it was URGENT.
What’s the hurry, Hussein? Here’s a 400 page bill that most congresscritters still haven’t even read, and most of which won’t have any immediate effect anyway, and you have to ram it through NOW?
Remember ACORN? Congressional Democrats voted yesterday to offer billions of taxpayer dollars to ACORN and other leftwing outfits - YOUR tax dollars - in their "economic stimulus" legislation.
But that isn't all. House Democrats voted to spend $600 million on new cars for the federal government, $50 million for the National Endowment of the Arts, and $136 billion on at least 32 government programs. They even voted to spend $335 million on STD prevention.
None of this will fix our ailing economy.
I just hope the Republican Senators understand that the ONLY, I repeat, ONLY reason that Obama and Dems want Republican votes is that they all know that the economy is going to sink with or without this bill, and this bill will do NOTHING to revive it.
If the Republicans can go into 2010 and say: “See, we told you this bill would NOT do a bit of good...and now we’re out another trillion dollars (i.e., 2 years worth of defense spending) that your children and grandchildren will have to cover.”
Then at least they’ll get the base back home and (finally) start making some serious gains. It’s all about keeping the Washington Republicans separated from their base.
DO NOT TAKE THE BAIT!!!
This would lose support much faster if we focused on the fact that it isn’t a “stimulus” package at all. 6% will be spent in the first year, that’s the only part that could be considered “stimulus”.
To me, if he wanted it to atleast appear legit...he’d do something for just a year. He’d combine it with something republicans want as well.
But as it appears... it looks like nothing more the cashing-in.
McClame is his last hope!
Remember the last stimulus package? There was something like 25M in there for ACORN. The public went nuts and they dropped it from the bill only to come back with something like 14B.
Can anybody run with these crooks?
People already opposed the TARP bailout, they knew it was a crazy large sum and an unprecedented intervention into the private economy.
People were mad at Bush for overspending even before TARP.
Obama comes along and more than doubles the huge TARP amount and even his innaugaration a few days ago isn’t enough of a honeymoon to get people behind this. The country realizes the politicians are leading the nation into fiscal suicide.
ACORN is not a stimulus.
With the exception of yesterday’s vote, I’m starting to think that the Dems understand the Republican base better than the elected Republicans. The Dems know FULL WELL how much the base will be demoralized if the Senate Republicans cave.
...but I’m still not sure that the Senate Republicans fully understand that.
I think it's a depressant?
It is fairly obvious that “memo” was an undercover press release. She just trying to spin the Republican rejection of her pork bill...
Obama is a political bubble. This so-called stimulus bill is just one more attempt to keep the Obama bubble inflated.
When it finally pops, its going to be very messy.
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