So, now Obama is on the defensive, in an article published today on breitbart.com “President Barack Obama mocked Republicans' campaign to try to repeal his new health care law, saying Thursday they should "Go for it" and see how well they fare with voters.”
I guess he wasn’t paying attention to the approval numbers of the American public. According to a Quinnipiac University poll published Thursday, March 25 49% of Americans disapproves of the Health Care Reform Act. The Rasmussen Report published that Obama’s overall disapproval rating across the country is 51%. Realclearpolitics.com reports an averaged (average of ten leading opinion polls) disapproval rating of just over 50%.
Had the President paid more attention to the polls he may have noticed that in all of them nearly half the respondents are opposed to the Act. Had a popular vote been taken it could very well have resulted in a stalemate.
Instead he engaged in partisan politics – something he himself has vowed to try to move beyond – and made a last-minute promise in order to push his bill through Sunday night. With a margin of only four votes – less than 1% -- Obama got the bill passed by the skin of his teeth. And then only because of last minute, back room deals made with Democratic hold-outs.
To add icing to the cake, Breitbart also published an article detailing communist approval of his bill.
“Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on Thursday declared passage of American health care reform "a miracle" and a major victory for Obama's presidency, but couldn't help chide the United States for taking so long to enact what communist Cuba achieved decades ago.
"We consider health reform to have been an important battle and a success of his (Obama's) government," Castro wrote in an essay published in state media, adding that it would strengthen the president's hand against lobbyists and "mercenaries." “
If that doesn’t say volumes for the type of bill Congress just imposed on us I don’t know what does.
And now the Democrats are wondering why violence is breaking out in response to the bill’s passing. For an answer to their bewilderment they should look to history. Whenever government begins to overstep its bounds into tyranny the oppressed begin to fight back. What we are seeing are the first stirrings of civil war. Maybe our lawmakers should re-examine their positions and start representing their constituents rather than blindly follow party lines before the public really does “Go for it,” and the Union collapses into a collection of separate nation states.
I guess he wasn’t paying attention to the approval numbers of the American public. According to a Quinnipiac University poll published Thursday, March 25 49% of Americans disapproves of the Health Care Reform Act. The Rasmussen Report published that Obama’s overall disapproval rating across the country is 51%. Realclearpolitics.com reports an averaged (average of ten leading opinion polls) disapproval rating of just over 50%.
Had the President paid more attention to the polls he may have noticed that in all of them nearly half the respondents are opposed to the Act. Had a popular vote been taken it could very well have resulted in a stalemate.
Instead he engaged in partisan politics – something he himself has vowed to try to move beyond – and made a last-minute promise in order to push his bill through Sunday night. With a margin of only four votes – less than 1% -- Obama got the bill passed by the skin of his teeth. And then only because of last minute, back room deals made with Democratic hold-outs.
To add icing to the cake, Breitbart also published an article detailing communist approval of his bill.
“Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on Thursday declared passage of American health care reform "a miracle" and a major victory for Obama's presidency, but couldn't help chide the United States for taking so long to enact what communist Cuba achieved decades ago.
"We consider health reform to have been an important battle and a success of his (Obama's) government," Castro wrote in an essay published in state media, adding that it would strengthen the president's hand against lobbyists and "mercenaries." “
If that doesn’t say volumes for the type of bill Congress just imposed on us I don’t know what does.
And now the Democrats are wondering why violence is breaking out in response to the bill’s passing. For an answer to their bewilderment they should look to history. Whenever government begins to overstep its bounds into tyranny the oppressed begin to fight back. What we are seeing are the first stirrings of civil war. Maybe our lawmakers should re-examine their positions and start representing their constituents rather than blindly follow party lines before the public really does “Go for it,” and the Union collapses into a collection of separate nation states.
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So the manditory one a year post comes in which gives it a stay of execution at leat until I find another blog I want to track on my feed page.
The wounds regarding this topic are still too fresh. I can';t seem get my head around it enough to even start a post yet. I'm sure one is in there, I'm just too tired and pissed off right to put pencil to paper ,. or fingers to keyboard.
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