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The president's shameless posturing and pandering to his base during the recent crisis evidently paid dividends in convincing you and the other 21% of the country who constitute his base that the Tea Party is the villain in this drama.
A record 52% of us, however, failed to fall for that crap:
I guess you just totally ignored all the other polling. Out of all the figures involved in the debt cieling - deficit reduction deals President Obama comes out the rated higher than John Boehner.
Americans are more likely to approve of the way President Obama is handling the negotiations to raise the federal debt ceiling than they are to approve of the handling of the situation by Speaker of the House John Boehner or Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, although opinions about all three are more negative than positive.
President Obama - Approved 41%
John Boehner - Approved 31%
Also slightly more independents approved of President Obama's handling of the debt ceiling than John Boehner by a 35% to 31% margin.
I just heard it... I am so glad our President took the time to cut spending but apparently he didn't do a good job at it...
He didn't do enough? This is the silent civil war the Teajihadists have started against the American people. He had the cuts, but it was that twerp Cantor and his ilk that fought it.
Tea Party people will kill America in their fight to get every American forced into evalgelicalism, flopping on the floor babbling in tongues, and to bring the first Black President down.
I said days ago they started a cold war style civil war.
It's not the cuts- or lack thereof- per se. It's the screwing around until the last minute, the dysfunctionality of our law makers, the fact that every time the debt ceiling comes up in the future these types of hostage holding shenanigans are set up to happen again.
What's really, sadly ironic about it is that lenders will now likely charge us more interest- adding to the debt. Even 10 basis points is HUGE on a large loan.
On a personal level, interest we pay on mortgages, car loans, etc. may go up- taking more discretionary spending money out of the economy.
We should have had a clean up or down vote on the debt ceiling and then, along with helping with job creation, work on reducing the debt and deficit.
We shot ourselves in the foot again. I'm sure the Reps and TPers are happy because it makes Obama look bad- even though he is not the one who makes the laws- and they care much more about that than they care about this country's best interests.
Thanks a lot congress, dems and reps alike. A pox on both your houses.
Seems folks keep wanting to point their fingers at Tea Party Freshman, but voters SENT THOSE GUYS TO CONGRESS - with a MANDATE.
They were doing exactly what their voters put them in place to do.
Mine sure as hell did what we sent him there to do and blaming him for any of this is more childish than anything I can think of.
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