Maybe CNN did get those results but what I’m saying now by making such a big deal of this debt ceiling raise the dems and Obama have focused the public on to the economy.
They will now lose because their plans don’t work. As a matter of course, every day removed from Bush is another day more the dems own it, and that over 50% continues to erode. But this major fight by Obama means that the trickle of ownership jumps way up for them.
They really aren’t going to help the economy; only hurt it more. I believe that in my heart of hearts. And because I know that it is true, I think more and more—not less—will start to wake up and smell the coffee.
We’re both old enough to remember well what happened in the late 70’s into 1980. Reagan didn’t look so good in the early poll numbers. Yet Jimmy couldn’t win because as time went on, Reagan’s question, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” took its toll.
It was true then and it is true now. And unlike Reagan, I’m also predicting the new Republican president (sure hope it’s Sarah!) will have a Republican House AND SEnate to do business with, while the dems and their media allies will be wailing and gnashing their teeth in the wilderness.
Not in the wilderness, but in schools, American homes via TV and radio, social networking sites, twitter ( don't forget Zer0's plan to use this to "inform" the public) and prolly from loudspeakers strategically placed for best coverage.
Agreed, we will own the show after the 2012 elections,rinos excluded of course.
Well AB, I hope you’re right.
Bear in mind that the Tea Party guys helped get this before the public eye. The pubs wanted a quick and dirty deal to relieve their anguish and fear.
Getting this kind of thing in front of the public...because frankly guys, I consider myself somewhat of a political junkey and I never even knew there was such a thing as a debt ceiling....is how the Democrats win.
And for the record, I don’t think that Boehner was against CCB as you indicated was my accusation in an earlier post. Frankly, I don’t think ANY Gop guy was against CCB; they’d have all been elated had it passed fairly.
But this was a bill that put a cap on the debt ceiling, cut spending dramatically and required a balanced budget. That bill was never gonna pass. I do think the Tea Party types, honing in on Michelle Bachmann for one, felt it was what their constituents wanted and nothing less.
The bill was, to Boehner’s and even the rest of the Blue Blood GOP’s credit (and I seldom give them any credit) put up and this too was part of getting this issue out in front of the American public.
But even a hardliner like me knows it was too much right now.
Maybe when we get the GOP prez, the pub House and senate in a couple of years.
We are always patted on the heads and told we must wait.
It gets old.