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Title: Disapproval Rate for Congress at Record 82% After Debt Talks
Source: New York Times
URL Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/us/politics/05poll.html
Published: Aug 4, 2011
Author: MICHAEL COOPER and MEGAN THEE-BRENAN
Post Date: 2011-08-05 10:19:13 by lucysmom
Keywords: None
Views: 27662
Comments: 52

The debate over raising the debt ceiling, which brought the nation to the brink of default, has sent disapproval of Congress to its highest level on record and left most Americans saying that creating jobs should now take priority over cutting spending, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.

A record 82 percent of Americans now disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job — the most since The Times first began asking the question in 1977, and even more than after another political stalemate led to a shutdown of the federal government in 1995.

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The Republicans compromised too little, a majority of those polled said. All told, 72 percent disapproved of the way Republicans in Congress handled the negotiations, while 66 percent disapproved of the way Democrats in Congress handled negotiations.

The public was more evenly divided about how Mr. Obama handled the debt ceiling negotiations: 47 percent disapproved and 46 percent approved.

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Democrats ain't doing so good - only Republicans are doing worse.

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#1. To: Badeye, A K A Stone, hondo68, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, brian s, mcgowanjm, Capitalist Eric, Mininggold (#0)

Sixty-three percent of those polled said that they supported raising taxes on households that earn more than $250,000 a year, as Mr. Obama has sought to do — including majorities of Democrats (80 percent), independents (61 percent) and Republicans (52 percent).

If the "will of the people" means anything, it looks like taxes are on the way up for the wealthy.

lucysmom  posted on  2011-08-05   10:21:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: lucysmom, Badeye, A K A Stone, hondo68, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, brian s, mcgowanjm, Mininggold (#1)

If the "will of the people" means anything...

It doesn't. I've often heard democracy described as "two wolves and a sheep deciding on what's for dinner."

That's why we have a representative republic, with the established boundaries set by the Constitution.

People, by and large, are too easily led around by the nose- manipulated, if you will- by propaganda. The representative republic is the model implemented, to avoid 51% of the people creating tyranny for the other 49%. [Since 51% of Americans don't pay taxes, so they have NO problem with raising the taxes on the other 49%!]

One need only look at you, to understand the wisdom of representative republic model.

...it looks like taxes are on the way up for the wealthy.

$250K a year is not "wealthy."

Basically, oBOMBa is suckering the stupid, saying "we're gonna' tax anyone who makes more than YOU." And you're just dumb enough to believe it... Guess what- half of Americans don't work, so the productive class has to pay for them... So what it really means, is that the taxes are gonna' be raised on those that actually work, and given to those that do NOT work.

More leftist bullshit, really... "rob Peter to pay Paul..." AFTER I get a cut.

You leftist idiots deserve all the misery that's coming your way.

I mean that. Sincerely.

Capitalist Eric  posted on  2011-08-05   11:37:19 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: Capitalist Eric (#3)

That's why we have a representative republic, with the established boundaries set by the Constitution.

And then the Selection of 2000, still unsolved...

9/11, still unsolved...COG State of Emergency... renewed every year....superceding the Constitution...

Anthrax, still unsolved...

Invasion the Afghans/Iraq/ 4 other wars....not called wars....

Katrina...Shock Doctrine...never let a crisis go to waste...

Lehman/AIG Insurance on Debt designed never to pay off...

Depression 07....

FedRes explodes Balance Sheet by $16.1 Trillion...at least....

$7.75 Trillion going to Merrill, BofA, Citi, Morgan Stanley...

3 years of extend/pretend....

And now the POTUS will oversea a USA Debt Downgrade this PM, after setting up the SS/Medicare for gutting...

So that the World's Largest Military can have the World's Largest Budget...

Making the European Financial Stability Facility almost 6 times bigger (€440 billion to €2.5 trillion) than it isn't even yet, but is at least supposed to become, is a dead on arrival idea. Germany won't accept that, Holland won't, Finland won't. "

Sunday PM...Think August 1914...1931...1937...1941....

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-08-05   19:17:16 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: All (#32)

Why is this a secret?

GOP Tries To Shift Blame For S&P Downgrade Of US Creditworthiness

TPMDC - 1 hour ago An ABC News report suggests US officials are prepping for the credit rating agency S&P to downgrade the country's AAA bond rating to either AA or AA+. ... 160 related articles Govt officials: US expecting S&P downgrade -- based on "serious ...46; - ABC News (blog) US Braces for Possible S&P Downgrade: Sources46; - CNBC.com

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-08-05   19:19:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: All (#33)

CNN: S&P served notice it planned to downgrade U.S. AAA rating but is reconsidering, a senior administration official says.

You didn't think that anything worse could come out of DC this week...

Now Didja?

Just exponentially worse than saying 'the SS checks won't go out Aug 2, and Congress is not going to lift the Debt Ceiling....

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-08-05   19:28:48 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: All (#34)

CNN: S&P served notice it planned to downgrade U.S. AAA rating but is reconsidering, a senior administration official says.

Read:

They can't find the S&P guy that made that call.

The FBI is in the S&P Building looking. Told the guy used to work at the Texas Book Depository but had gone to a movie....8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-08-05   19:30:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: mcgowanjm (#35)

They can't find the S&P guy that made that call.

The FBI is in the S&P Building looking. Told the guy used to work at the Texas Book Depository but had gone to a movie....8D

James, a sense of humor is a good thing; otherwise, we'd all be crying.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2011-08-05   21:14:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: Fred Mertz (#37)

James, a sense of humor is a good thing

but I'm serious....not....;}

(CBS/AP)

Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's says it has downgraded the United States' credit rating for the first time in the history of the ratings.

Debtors will find out Monday that they've got a 1/2 to Full Point added to their % rate.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-08-05   21:50:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#46. To: mcgowanjm (#38)

Debtors will find out Monday that they've got a 1/2 to Full Point added to their % rate.

Better than a tax increase for the wealthy is an interest rate hike on the common man.

lucysmom  posted on  2011-08-06 10:37:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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