What Voters Know About ObamaCare

The Wall Street Journal ^ | 02-26-10 | JOHN FUND

[GOP_Lady]

A full 48% of voters want Congress to start over, and 25% want lawmakers to stop working on health care altogether.

When Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander opened the Republican response to President Obama's remarks at yesterday's health care summit, he asked Democrats to renounce the idea of using parliamentary maneuvers such as reconciliation to pass health care with a simple majority vote.

Mr. Obama tried to swat him down by claiming Americans wanted a straight up-or-down vote on his health care bill and don't care about what methods are used to get it. "You know, this issue of reconciliation has been brought up. Again I think the American people aren't always all that interested in procedures inside the Senate. I do think they want a vote on how we're going to move this forward," he told the 40-plus summit participants.

The only problem is the latest polls provide no support for his position. A new Gallup Poll finds that, by 52% to 39%, those surveyed oppose attempts by Democrats to circumvent a filibuster by passing health care by a simple majority vote. A separate poll by CNN found that only 25% of voters want Congress to pass a bill similar to the ones already voted on by the House and Senate. A full 48% want Congress to start over, and 25% want lawmakers to stop working on health care altogether.

[GOP_Lady]

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[Servant of the Cross]

What Voters Know About Obamacare

That it is identical to Romneycare?

[originalbuckeye]

OBAMA DOESN'T CARE WHAT WE, THE PEOPLE, WANT!! Why can't people see that? He wants Socialized Medicine at ALL COSTS! The Dems will be out of power for decades but OBAMA WANTS WHAT OBAMA WANTS! Haven't we all dealt with petulant children from time to time? Sadly, this petulant child is in a position to do serious damage to our country.

[GOP_Lady]

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[lonestar]

Because BO is accustomed to the below-average menality of ACORN and SEIU members, I think he underestimates the ability of average Americans.

[Servant of the Cross]

Romney Give Mass. Healthcare an "A"

[Psalm 144]

“Because BO is accustomed to the below-average menality of ACORN and SEIU members, I think he underestimates the ability of average Americans.”

Agreed. He does represent the shallow end of the gene pool.

[loveliberty2]

Some ask, "Why would a person push ahead when, for months, opposition among citizens who are voting age have made it clear they are strongly opposed to such action?"

What are the most likely reasons?

1. Ignorance, lack of executive leadership experience.

2. Personal arrogance and overblown sense of self.

3. Under control of powerful "others" who are more important than citizen/voters.

4. Confident that voting system and process is sufficiently controlled to assure success for those in power.

Other

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for this. I’m going to write a “Thank you” to my Tennessee Senator, Lamar Alexander.

[RipSawyer]

I think BO himself is FAR, FAR down the IQ scale from where the media tries to position him. He obviously has no real understanding of the constitution even thought they try to claim he was a “professor” of constitutional law. Only a complete idiot could think that he is doing a fine job as president but he seems to think so.

It is not uncommon for someone to think that those who exceed him in mental power are stupid. A stupid narcissist will almost always underestimate his betters.