Posted on 09/09/2009 12:48:07 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Barack Obama will address a joint session of Congress this evening in an attempt to rescue his health-care overhaul, but he will face a much more skeptical audience with the voters. After all, Democrats have wide majorities in Congress, but Obama now has a majority of the electorate opposing him on health care, according to the AP:
Public disapproval of President Barack 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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Ping.
Unfortunately for us, many who disapprove actually support the plan but just think Obama is doing a bad job selling it.
Hussein sucks.
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 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.
LLS
No big deal. It’s only a little over half the country. He won’t care.
I wish it was more than 52%.
This poll is from the AP, so it more than likely is far greater than that.
It was from a pro-life rally, yes.
The poll is from AP.
It’s probably more like 72%.
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