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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: 26698
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  


#6. To: Capitalist Eric (#3)

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

Chuckles...you've correctly predicted what's coming their way 1,098,843,562,909 of the last 0 times...

war  posted on  2011-08-05   11:41:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: war (#6)

Chuckles...you've correctly predicted what's coming their way 1,098,843,562,909 of the last 0 times...

I've predicted what'S coming their way MANY times... and they're getting it RIGHT NOW.

You leftists think that you're representative of the common people... Because YOU are quite common... And in this way, you're correct. The meaning of "common," is the key... Common, as in

a : falling below ordinary standards : second-rate or
b : lacking refinement : coarse

H.L. Mencken was referring to you, when he said "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

INDEED.

Capitalist Eric  posted on  2011-08-05   12:38:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Capitalist Eric (#16)

H.L. Mencken was referring to you, when he said "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

I don't live in a democracy...I live in a republic.

war  posted on  2011-08-05   12:50:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: war, Crapitalist Eric (#19)

I don't live in a democracy...I live in a republic.

Poor Eric, even his attempts at illustrative homilies fall flat.

mininggold  posted on  2011-08-05   12:55:50 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: mininggold, war, Crapitalist Eric, lucysmom, All (#20)

This is insane. And yet exactly what the Top 50 000 believe:

"#14. To: lucysmom (#11)

you and your ilk...

Me and my ilk, are the hosts that you and YOUR ilk (the parasite class) depend on, for survival.

Never forget that.

It used to be the leftists that had bumper-stickers that said things like "Question Authority.' Today they follow slogans from 1984:

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

They blindly LOVE Big Brother. They believe competition, pride & profiting from ones labor, are evil things to be banished.

Stephen King observed, "The beauty of religion mania is that it has the power to explain everything... [so] logic can be happily tossed out the window.

This describes socialists. They will ignore logic and "common sense." They will ignore REALITY. Because THEY are religious zealots...

THEIR God... is the STATE.

Capitalist Eric

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-08-05   19:10:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: mcgowanjm (#30)

This is insane. And yet exactly what the Top 50 000 believe:

Some people over-value their importance in the world while devaluing the contributions made by common men and women they despise.

"Some animals are more equal than others" - Eric is of the more equal ilk.

lucysmom  posted on  2011-08-05   22:36:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: lucysmom (#42)

Some people over-value their importance in the world while devaluing the contributions made by common men and women they despise.

;}

And the real laugh riot is that w/o debt their importance vaporizes.

Which is why the pretzel logic for the past 4 years.

The rich deserve the Bail outs. The poor never deserve theirs....;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-08-06   7:55:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: mcgowanjm (#44)

The rich deserve the Bail outs. The poor never deserve theirs....;}

Ha! and bonuses for being clever enough to get the bailout, while the wage earner is a deadbeat when he defaults on his mortgage because he was laid off when the economy tanked due to the machinations of the guy who got the bonus.

lucysmom  posted on  2011-08-06   9:29:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#50. To: lucysmom (#45)

Ha! and bonuses for being clever enough to get the bailout, while the wage earner is a deadbeat when he defaults on his mortgage because he was laid off when the economy tanked due to the machinations of the guy who got the bonus.

Then cut the SS/Medicare/Unemnployment....

Like a baby throwing matches at a pool of gasoline surrounding a captured Iranian Arms Shipment in Cyprus....8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-08-06   10:53:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#51. To: mcgowanjm (#50)

Then cut the SS/Medicare/Unemnployment....

The wealthy can't stand the idea that $2.4 trillion borrowed from Social Security needs to be paid back.

lucysmom  posted on  2011-08-06   11:06:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: lucysmom (#51) (Edited)

The wealthy can't stand the idea that $2.4 trillion borrowed from Social Security needs to be paid back.

And this:

We 'got' our AAA in 1917. We entered WWI in 1917.

We then 'lost' it. Don't know how yet. Bet it was the New Deal...;}

Then we 'got' it back in 1941.... 1941. 1941. WTF happened in 1941...

Ever thought you were being played? 8D

US loses AAA rating for first time | Radio Netherlands Worldwide www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/us-loses-aaa-rating-first-time-0 3 hours ago – It was the first time the US had been downgraded since it received an AAA rating from Moody's in 1917; it has held the S&P rating since 1941 ...

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