Posted on 09/09/2009 10:28:43 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Public disapproval of President Obama's handling of health care has jumped to 52 percent, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll released hours before he makes his case for overhaul in a prime-time address to Congress.
With his health revamp moving slowly and unemployment edging ever higher, Obama's overall approval rating has also suffered a blow. The survey showed that 49 percent now disapprove of how he is handling his job as president, up from 42 percent who disapproved in July.
The grade people give Obama on health care also has worsened since July, when just 43 percent disapproved of his work on the issue.
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Tonight's speech will, undoubtedly, employ "words" crafted and designed to get what the forces behind his presidency want the speech to accomplish.
As they critique it, those who value liberty must keep that fact uppermost in their minds. Else, they will get lost in the technicalities and "issues" of parsing phrases.
The big picture is individual liberty and prosperity for future generations through constitutionally limited power granted to government versus collective subservience to coercive control (tyranny) by government. The first is the successful and authentic idea of America's Founders, and the second is a counterfeit idea which has been tried and has always failed to make the lives of people better.
By his own claim in a campaign speech, "words matter." We must remember that "words" are only vehicles that carry ideas, and even the chosen exercise in semantics being thrown around gives the clue. What is the role of a trigger on a weapon? It is certainly not to cause the weapon not to fire! What a stupid choice of words.
If a person is intent on taking his cargo from Point A to Point B, and finds there are such obstacles to traveling by airplane that he decides, for expediency's sake, to take it by bus instead, except for the time involved, there is no difference in outcome. The cargo still goes from Point A to Point B. Changing the mode of transportation didn't change that fact.
Changing the semantics of the mode of getting the billions (trillions) of dollars involved in health care in America under the control of powerful "people controllers" in Washington, D. C., will not change the outcome and consequences. It will only serve to delay the onset of those consequences.
Calling the vehicle a "public option," a "trigger," a "cooperative," or by any other word should not confuse Americans about the cargo's eventual fate. The Far Left wants to transfer this large percentage of the American economy to the control of the state. Congress, the Senate, and the Administration need to be told "no" in no uncertain terms.
Changing the description is just an exercise in semantics. The destination already has been made clear, and it's not in the direction of liberty.
“There is a clear public desire for a bipartisan approach on the issue. Eight in 10 say it’s important that any plan that passes Congress should have the support of both parties, while two-thirds want Obama and Democrats to try winning support from Republicans, who with few exceptions have opposed the Democratic drive.”
I don’t get it. What does the will of the people have to do with this government?
We need to keep our powder dry, our country cannot trust a single word that comes from the mouth of Barack Obama. He and the democrat party, aided and abetted by a criminally complicit, corrupt MSM, will attempt a bait-and-switch that is unprecedented in the scope of its danger to the USA.
You say you want a revolution....
Obozo is reaping what he has sown and the end is coming swiftly.
Proverbs 14:32-34
32The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing,but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.
33Wisdom is at home in the mind of one who has understanding, but it is not* known in the heart of fools.
34Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
Stop this whole bill and take the time to study what can really be done regarding health care. There is no rush to get something passed now.....right now. Obama and Democrats are not listening to over 50% of the American people. They don’t care.
If the dems really BELIEVE the American people actually want this, HOLD THE VOTE THE WEEK BEFORE THE 2010 ELECTIONS!
(and make the “public option” mandandatory for all members of Congress!)
Same poll, by GfK/Associated Press/Roper Polling:
Obama’s approval ratings on...
Economy: 44% approve, 52% disapprove
Health Care: 42% approve, 52% disapprove
Iraq: 47% approve, 41% disapprove
Environment: 51% approve, 35% disapprove
Deficit: 33% approve, 56% disapprove
Energy: 50% approve, 37% disapprove
Taxes: 38% approve, 50% disapprove
Immigration: 34% approve, 46% disapprove
Afghanistan: 46% approve, 40% disapprove
Foreign relations: 53% approve, 37% disapprove
Unemployment: 40% approve, 49% disapprove
Gas prices: 37% approve, 41% disapprove
IOW: He still has moderately high approval ratings in the areas that he has so far been seen as continuing Bush’s policies (Afghanistan, Iraq, foreign relations) or which hasn’t come to the fore yet (energy, environment). Let his policies on carbon taxes, etc., or fighting terrorism grab the headlines, and watch his approval rating tank.
The solution is to end government interference in the health care market. Yes, that means get rid of the FDA, too.
Tort reform would be good as well.
What amazes me is that libs don’t seem to understand simple budgeting.
Sure, go ahead and pass cap & tax and obamacare. I’m looking forward to early retirement. I mean, after all, if you increase my social security withholding, my taxes, tax my healthcare, create a 2.5% payroll tax for healthcare, increase my energy prices, food prices, & gas prices.
At some point, it would be cheaper for me to quit working, live on the public healthcare option for free, live on foodstamps, hud, energy subsidies, etc.
Now what happens if most conservatives do the same thing? If most people can maintain a better standard of living by living off welfare rather than working (thanks to government intervention), then where will our country be?
Dead. We're headed there. All empires die. They usually goes with hyper-inflated fiat currency. Fun times ahead. I wonder if Obama is so deluded he thinks his plans will lead to anything else.
See you just don’t understand it all .... let me explain.
discussions are over, he wants a vote this week.
he can’t afford more discussions or people reading bills that only stops him.
he must pass this now because there will be a catastrophe if not (for him) and even though it wont take effect till 2013 we need this now (we being his cabinet)/s
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