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Republicans seem to believe that Americans have risen in unison and issued a full-throated plea to repeal President Obama's 2009 healthcare reform law. That's why Republicans plan to propose bills to repeal or defund healthcare reform as their first order of business when the new Congress convenes in January. But Americans have issued no such mandate, and support for healthcare reform actually runs a bit stronger than opposition to it. In a pew poll, for instance, 40 percent of respondents favored repealing the health care law, but 52 percent said it should be expanded or left alone.....
Of the five biggest pieces of legislation passed during Obama's first two years, financial reform was the most popular, with 61 percent of respondents in a USA Today/Gallup poll saying they approved of tougher rules for banks. And casting your lot with Wall Street is a dubious political strategy: In a Pew survey from earlier this year, banks drew the lowest positive and the highest negative ratings among 13 institutions, coming in lower than labor unions, the news media, and even Congress. So it's hard to see how easing the rules on banks would please voters--although there's no doubt that it would draw millions in campaign donations from the financial industry.
How Republicans May Be Overplaying Their Hand - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/howrepublicansmaybeoverplayingtheirhand - broken link)
RationalAmericans realize that the Obamacare does nothing more than give more customers to the insurance companies and force us to pay higher premiums. The list of those that will be exempt keeps swelling as the costs associated with the bill continue to rise.
The stimulus was a payoff for the 2008 election and did next to nothing for the economy. At this point, all jobs saved (a new standard lol) or created are gone. Those jobs no longer exist. It would have been much more prudent to just divide that money up and give it to the taxpayers to spend...but then the paybacks wouldn't have been possible. And now the article wants to call extending the tax cuts a second stimulus. I guess that WOULD be like giving the money to the people to stimulate the economy.
It's my understandng that the republicans are upset about the banking legislation because it does nothing with Fannie and Freddie. That tells me the dems left loopholes in the bill, not that republicans are trying to create them.
The creator of the article must have had a quick deadline to meet and not enough time to research it first. JMO
How Republicans May Be Overplaying Their Hand - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/howrepublicansmaybeoverplayingtheirhand - broken link)
Well, according to this opinion piece, obamacare was popular, financial reform as well, I imagine the stimulus too.
One would think if that were the case the democrats would have been rewarded for their legislative prowess.......but instead, they were pummeled mercilessly by the voters, across the country, in the House, in the Senate, in governorships, in state legislatures. In fact, this was a thumping of epic proportions, historic!
RationalAmericans realize that the Obamacare does nothing more than give more customers to the insurance companies and force us to pay higher premiums. The list of those that will be exempt keeps swelling as the costs associated with the bill continue to rise.
The stimulus was a payoff for the 2008 election and did next to nothing for the economy. At this point, all jobs saved (a new standard lol) or created are gone. Those jobs no longer exist. It would have been much more prudent to just divide that money up and give it to the taxpayers to spend...but then the paybacks wouldn't have been possible. And now the article wants to call extending the tax cuts a second stimulus. I guess that WOULD be like giving the money to the people to stimulate the economy.
It's my understandng that the republicans are upset about the banking legislation because it does nothing with Fannie and Freddie. That tells me the dems left loopholes in the bill, not that republicans are trying to create them.
The creator of the article must have had a quick deadline to meet and not enough time to research it first. JMO
...or has an obvious agenda.
You made very good points!
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