In the wake of Republican Scott Brown's victory in Tuesday's U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts, the majority of Americans (55%) favor Congress' putting the brakes on its current healthcare reform efforts and considering alternatives that can obtain more Republican support. Four in 10 Americans (39%) would rather have House and Senate Democrats continue to try to pass the bill currently being negotiated in conference committee
That is a majority, no matter how you cut it. Deal with it.
Points to note:
***67 percent of Democrats want Congress to continue down the same path and pass Obamacare with 87 percent of Republicans favoring suspending the process.
Those figures are expected with minimal surprise that the Democratic support isn't a little higher and closer to the Republican opposition.
The numbers to look at though are the Independents, those are the voters that will make the difference in upcoming election and 56 percent of Independents believe Congress should put the brakes on the current talks and Obamacare bills and find alternatives that will garner bipartisan support.
This matches the national averages on Americans opposed to Obamacare in it's current form.
Gallup's bottom line:
Brown's election shook up the political world in both Massachusetts and Washington. President Obama has indicated he would like Congress to hold off on healthcare reform until Brown is seated, which is consistent with the public's wishes to suspend work on the bill. But the public is also not convinced that healthcare should be the top priority for the government at this time and endorses finding alternatives that can gain Republican support, which the bill under consideration has not received. Americans may therefore prefer a longer pause on the issue -- one that stretches well beyond the time Brown is seated.
That is the bottom line for the voters in America. The majority.
So, what about the liberal media pundits and liberal progressive bloggers out there, what do they have to say to Congress.
Come on, you know already, don't you?
Go against the people's will and pass the damn thing anyway...it is "right thing to do".
Example, Paul Krugman:
A message to House Democrats: This is your moment of truth. You can do the right thing and pass the Senate health care bill. Or you can look for an easy way out, make excuses and fail the test of history.
What about members of Congress and the Senate who are supposed to be in Washington representing the American voters?
Via NYT:
Even as Speaker Nancy Pelosi affirmed her commitment to pass far-reaching health care legislation this year, members of Congress and health policy experts began Thursday to deal with the reality that a smaller bill would have a better chance.
Pelosi already said the House does not have the votes to just pass the Senate's version of the bill. Period.
Sorry, Krugman. Well not really, but the lunatic would walk the Democrats even further to the edge of the cliff if he had his way, so in a way I am sorry for him, his delusional state should be analyzed. By a shrink.
Viiginia, New Jersey and now Massachusetts have all sent a not-so-gentle reminder to Congress and Obama that they work for the people, they answer to the people, they are supposed to represent the people.
They are not supposed to go against the majority of the people simply to appease the President's agenda and the far left liberals.
Some individual members of the House and Senate heard the message loud and clear, for example, Representative from New York Eliot Engel, who is a backer of reform and states, via The Politico, "Right now, their priority is jobs and the economy. Health care is not the priority. If we look like…we’re hell-bent on making health care the no. 1 priority regardless of how much pain is out there, then I think we do it at our own peril."
See? Some actually "get it", too bad those aren't the ones with the gavel, that is Nancy Pelosi, who is more worried about getting "a bill", anything they can pass and slap the word Healthcare on, than she is about representing the country's majority.
“We have to get a bill passed,” Pelosi told reporters. “We know that.”
Here is some entertainment though.
Rank-and-file Democrats would like more guidance from the White House, but some complained when rumors broke that chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was prodding lawmakers to move quickly to repackage a scaled-back bill.
They want Obama's on the job training "guidance", yet when the White House does try to "guide" them, they complain because the White House is not telling them what they want to hear.
Obama, on the other hand, has flipped flopped from demanding passage by arbitrary timelines, such as before last August's vacation for Congress, then wanting it done by Christmas, to wanting it done by his upcoming State of the Union Address to now saying "slow down" and stick to the "core" principles that everyone can agree on.
I refer Obama, Palosi, Krugman and liberal bloggers back to the beginning quote from Gallup, in this post.. here, a reminder since it is so far up and ya'll seem to have such short memories.
In the wake of Republican Scott Brown's victory in Tuesday's U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts, the majority of Americans (55%) favor Congress' putting the brakes on its current healthcare reform efforts and considering alternatives that can obtain more Republican support. Four in 10 Americans (39%) would rather have House and Senate Democrats continue to try to pass the bill currently being negotiated in conference committee
Here is another thing Gallup polled to which USA Today highlights:
Those surveyed also are inclined to say that the president and Democratic leaders have erred in making health care the top legislative priority for now. Forty-six percent say health care is important but there are other problems they should address first, and 19% say health care shouldn't be a major priority.
One in three say health care should be the top priority now.
November is coming and in the political world of Washington, 11 months is but a blink of an eye and the Democrats have a tough choice to make.
Do they let far left liberal bloggers and pundits take them over a cliff or do they listen to the majority of Americans.
Fact is, since the majority is opposed to Obamacare in all it's current forms, then the far left liberals are not the majority and they are all screaming at the top of their lungs, "pass this or else" while the actual majority is screaming "stop, or else".
Who should they listen to, the people that will end their political careers? The minority? Or the majority?
Sounds like a no-brainer but as you can see from all the links above and witness for yourself by looking at the liberal bloggers and pundits screaming their heads off to "pass the damn bill", they just don't get that if the politicians listen to them, they are done. Finished.
They will not be reelected come November.
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