ObamaCare Scaring Seniors
According to Rasmussen’s recent polling, seniors are being scared by President Obama’s proposed Medicare cuts:
The most ominous signal yet for the Obama healthcare plan emerged in the poll by Scott Rasmussen released today. While public support for the plan fell to a new low (42 percent support, 53 percent oppose, down five points in two weeks), the elderly emerged as the strongest opposition group. Those over 65 rejected the plan by 39-56 while almost half, 46 percent, said they were “strongly opposed” to it.
All the townhalls in the world won’t shift those numbers. It’s time that the Democrats stopped with their drive for a single-payer health care plan.
Claire McCaskill and Arlen Specter found out firsthand Tuesday that people simply don’t trust DC politicians. Some people cited the fact that President Obama and the Democrat leadership pushed the stimulus bill through without reading it, saying it had to be passed to avert a catastrophe. People were upset that President Obama signed the bill 5 days later in Denver during an elaborate photo op.
It hasn’t helped that people are mocking this administration for having expiration dates on its campaign promises. If President Obama and the Democrats don’t start moderating their policies ASAP, they’ll be facing these angry mobs the first Tuesday in November, 2010 instead of in townhall meetings.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
August 13th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
First correction: It is technically the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November. Minor, but still a point. Makes a difference occasionally.
Second, the Obamabots are accusing conservatives (all the way from Rush to the terrorists disrupting “townhalls”) of fear-mongering, when in fact it is them who are threatening (and actually advocating and committing) violence and the conservatives who are calling for calmness and to slow things down, take a breath and figure out how to do this right the first time.
Nothing is worse than a “fix” by Congress for something they screwed up to begin with. Always has been, always will be.
And, just as a sidenote, there’s no way to prove it but I suspect that, had the guvmint kept its greedy, greasy hands off the economy we’d probably be in a healthy recovery by now. Just a guess, and no way to prove otherwise either way, but an educated guess at that.
August 13th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Not only that, If they hadn’t artificially bent the qualification rules for mortgage financing, we may not have even had a recession to begin with.
August 13th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Again, they are rushing in to fix a problem they themselves (at least some few particular members) created (mortgage lending and banking).
Same with health INSURANCE reform, with the help of lawyer/judges who’ve made justice an unknown quality in our system of “justice”.
Same with the auto industry.
Same with energy.
And same with anything else they get their greedy, mob-smeared, lobbyist-dirtied hands on.
They are, as a whole, such pious wretches.