Posted on 07/15/2011 9:01:42 AM PDT by maggief
President Obama on Friday pointed to polls to argue that his proposal of a "balanced approach" on a debt deal - one that includes revenue increases as well as spending cuts - is what the American people want.
"My Republican friends have said that they're not willing to do revenues, and they have repeated that on several occasions," he told reporters at a news conference in Washington. "My hope, though, is that they're listening not just to lobbyists or special interests here in Washington, but they're also listening to the American people. Because it turns out, poll after poll, many done by your organizations, show that it's not just Democrats who think we need to take a balanced approach, it's Republicans as well."
A Gallup poll released Wednesday found that only 20 percent of Americans support a deal that only includes spending cuts, something Republicans have insisted on. Another 30 percent wanted a deal that was "mostly" spending cuts, and 32 percent wanted a deal split equally between spending cuts and tax increases. Eleven percent favored a deal that was mostly or all tax increases.
"The clear majority of Republican voters think that any deficit reduction package should have a balanced approach and should include some revenues," Mr. Obama said. "That's not just Democrats. That's the majority of Republicans." (That Gallup poll found that only one in four Republicans favor a deal that is only spending cuts.)
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This character will say ANYTHING
John 8:44:
44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
I think, if the GOP were to start calling attention to the "spending addiction" it casts in a negative and psychologically harming tone. "We would like the President cure his, and his party's addiction to spending." "If I had a child addicted to spending like the President, the last thing I would do is enable him or her by giving her a higher limit on the credit card." and keep hammering!!
Barrack The Magic Negro lives by the sea.
And frolics in the morning mists of the world called Unreality.
Come one everyone! Sing along.
Barrack! You been smoking something besides Newports if you believe what you just said.
I wonder if the poll he is referring to breaks down whether or not the person being polled actually pays any taxes? The first question for any poll on this subject should be “Did you pay any income tax last year?”. If the answer is “No”, they should not be included in the poll.
PATENT BULLSHIT...almost too rediculous to post an answer.
Right, and look what happened to those politicians.. Perhaps a similar ending would be appropriate for some of today’s politicians.
Every American is now aware that Obama and his accomplices in the Democratic Party are literally holding their PERSONAL future hostage.
Obama is no different that a kidnapper issuing a string of ransom demands.
He is not going to survive in this office much longer, the forces of public umbrage and righteous justifiable rage against him will get him removed from his office.
No we don’t!
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