Posted on 05/25/2023 1:13:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Joe Biden has been seemingly unable to catch a break as he and the White House scramble to show competence and strength amid debt ceiling negotiations with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) who has outmaneuvered Democrats at what seems to be every turn. This week, amid contradictory and increasingly desperate White House press briefings, more bad news for Biden emerged in the form of a new poll showing more Americans would blame Biden for a default than they would McCarthy or congressional Republicans.
The survey, conducted and released by Fox News with direction from Beacon Research and Shaw and Company Research showed how Biden has lost the messaging battle on the debt limit.
When it comes to Biden's initial position that no spending cuts be included in a bill increasing the debt ceiling — one that saw the president waste more than two months refusing to engage in talks with Speaker McCarthy — Americans overwhelmingly stand against Biden.
According to the Fox News Poll, 57 percent of Americans say the debt limit should only be increased if spending cuts are included. Just 27 percent said the debt ceiling should be lifted without additional requirements and 13 percent said the debt limit should not be increased and the U.S. should default on its debt.
If, in fact, the United States defaults on its debt before a deal can be reached to raise the debt ceiling — bearing in mind that House Republicans already passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling and avoid default — more Americans would blame President Biden than Republicans in Congress by a margin of 47 percent to 44 percent. Eight percent of Americans said they would blame both if a default takes place.
Notably, the lay of the land in this debt ceiling fight is markedly different from a previous fight. In 2011, a Fox News survey asking Americans whether they'd blame then-President Obama or congressional Republicans for a default, 47 percent said they'd blame the GOP while 32 percent said Obama would bear the blame.
That means President Biden and the White House — despite having the mainstream media, most big tech companies, and most of America's cultural institutions on their side — has managed to lose the narrative advantage they hoped to have on the debt ceiling issue. It's gotten so desperate inside the West Wing that Biden aides have been whining about the mainstream media's alleged failure to "frame" the debt limit situation in a way that benefits the president.
In continuing bad news for Biden as he looks toward 2024, Fox News' poll also found that 44 percent of Americans view the president as "corrupt," 53 percent say he "doesn't care" about Americans, and 57 percent say he is not "honest and trustworthy." When it comes to his job in general, 59 percent of Americans say Biden lacks the "judgment to serve as president effectively" and 60 percent believe Biden does not have "the mental soundness" to be commander in chief.
There won’t be a debt default. worst case they shut down some federal offices.
No average American cares.
It’s all political fodder.
How about $100 of spending cuts for every $1 of debt limit hike?
wrong!
the military wont get paid.
social security might not get ppaid.
veterans wont get paid.
Once Biden reassures Americans that Obama is actually president, those numbers will shift back to blaming the GOP.
Actually they will.
You forgot shut down National Parks...
The Secretary of the Treasury can legally pay debt interest up to a year in advance.
I think the difference this time, other than Obama not being president, is that many people at lower income levels have experienced the inflation effects of loose monetary policy and big spending. They now feel like more spending will raise prices.
After the votes in today’s House session, the usual one-minute speech time began, which usually has a few members bloviating on small issues such as someone retiring in their district or the school team won’t the Whatever Tournament. This morning, at least fifty members from the left side of the aisle, including the big dogs (Pelosi, Jeffries), all gave one-minutes that were evidently co-ordinated to build the narrative that the Republicans Were Running Out of Town And Letting Poor People and Veterans Suffer Forever.
They’re scared, since they know the House is the only part of the gubmint that has done its work in passing the necessary legislation, the Senate has been gone for the whole week, Biden was in Japan, and they look increasingly stupid.
Nonsense.
Tax receipts FAR exceed America’s important needs. The federal government just spends FAR TOO MUCH on non-essentials.
I say to Biden, go ahead and tell America’s seniors they won’t get their Social Security and watch an armed uprising of millions like nobody has ever seen.
Those who suddenly have nothing, have NOTHING TO LOSE and they will be the most dangerous people the world has ever seen.
Send civilian federal employees home and save BILLIONS of dollars.
When McCarthy was amongst those considered for Speaker of the House, I was one who didn’t want him, since I considered anything from Porn-O-Fornia to be not worth consideration. However, I must admit that he’s been darned good. Hopefully, he’ll continue to push ahead and perhaps, just perhaps, we may make a small dent in the abysmal failures of our country caused by our greatest enemy, the DemocRAT Party. Our nation has never faced such a concentration of dishonesty, corruption, loathsomeness, and just plain slime.
That's the best case.
Worst case is they keep all federal offices open and shut down EBTs and welfare.
Do NOT be within a hundred miles of a metropolitan area...
Only one person can be held responsible for the debt default Joe Biden it wouldn’t bother him a bit it’s one step closer to digital currency.
ALL YOU MONEY BELONG TO OURS.
I thought your about page said
“It is not the right of the federal government, by force of the gun, to take that money, and portion it out to the slothful, the lazy, and those that think that that money was not the earner’s to have, in the first place”
?
But yet you want the house to raise the debt
to pay folks with trillions more money they didn’t earn
to sit on their bum
and the demrinocommies
to promote and execute even more communism ?
Mil and s.s will get paid , don’t fall for that banana in the tailpipe.
They
Lie
Every
Time
About
Every
Thing.
The house is going on vacation again. Such leadership.
A couple more polls like this, and the prez will be willing to make a deal quickly. It’s all fun and games until you see that you’ll be blamed for it.
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