Sorry, don't buy it. People are for spending cuts in theory, the minute you actually ask them specifically what they want to cut you'll be down to foreign aid and prisons.
Those who want to see taxes raised, and the spending spree to continue, are in the clear minority.
Wrong. All polling shows people want both things. They want spending cut, but given the option they always fall for the tax the rich demagoguery. Ask people if they want to tax the corporate jet owners and the rich in general and a majority will almost always favor that in every poll.
Why do you think there's such an impasse going on? The phone lines in DC are melting with angry calls from citizens, demanding that the Republicans hold the line, and make some real cuts.
It's like you don't realize there is a very vocal left and frightened center that are also calling and demanding NO entitlement or social welfare cuts. You can even look at the comments on FR, there are a LOT of even otherwise conservative people that will not tolerate cuts to the entitlement programs they feel they've paid into and deserve to get.
Hussein STILL gets the support of roughly 45% of the American public, and far more like him personally. They WANT to like him, and when he spews his lies people fall for it.
If being right was enough we'd never be out of power. Unfortunately, people the world over fall for even the worst kinds of demagoguery. Hussein is an example of that and he will not be easy to defeat in this debt limit fight or the 2012 election.
Friend, you have truly missed the forest for the trees, or you're reading the news upside down. Don't know which.
Democrats weren't swept out of office across the country in the midterms because most people still want to have their cake and eat it too. A slim majority in this country are still wagon pullers - not wagon riders, and they are sick to death of having their hard earned money stolen by a bunch of criminal Commies in government.
As Jim Rob says, "Rebellion is brewing!"
If the situation were truly as you say it is, the midterm elections would have had a completely different result, and phone lines in DC wouldn't be melting right now. The part of the American public who are paying for the grand Socialist experiment, want it ended now. Period.
Perhaps you spend too much time seeking the opinions of wagon riders. Get a better class of friends.