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Why are Reid, Pelosi, and Obama trying to push through the health care bill when the majority of the public opposes it?
Background: From Rasmussen polls, December 7th, 2009:
The Senate worked through the weekend on its version of the national health care bill, with President Obama stopping by for a rare Sunday visit, but for the second week in a row, only 41% of U.S. voters favor the health care plan proposed by the president and congressional Democrats.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 51% oppose the plan. And as has been the case for months, the emotion’s on the sign of the naysayers: 40% Strongly Oppose the plan, while just 23% Strongly favor it.
As Megan McAardle puts it:
It's pretty clear at this point that any health care reform which passes is going to have more voters against it than for it.
There's exactly one explanation. Led by Obama, Reid and Pelosi don't care about the will of the people. They want to destroy democracy and put their boots on our necks. They're tired of being servants of the people. They don't like always being worried about losing their jobs in the next election, and they don't like having to answer to huge number of pesky "voters." What they want to do is give the government the power to control our health so that nobody will dare to oppose them again.
They must be stopped. Their agenda must be destroyed. And the American people owe a huge debt of gratitude and support to every Republican Congressman and Senator who is holding the line against them, because these Republicans are the only thing standing between us and the destruction of democracy by Obama, Reid, Pelosi, and every Democrat who supports this health care bill.
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#2Read this!
At a Capitol Hill news conference, Kucinich said his decision was a combination of pragmatism and concern about the impact that defeat of the health care bill would have on Obama's presidency.
"You do have to be very careful that the potential of President Obama's presidency not be destroyed by this debate," said Kucinich. "Even though I have many differences with him on policy, there's something much bigger at stake here for America."
So Kucinich is blatently selling out the people of the United States to protect the Obama Presidency? That's his reasoning? That's statesmanship? His decision to support the bill is not based on a flawed bill and program that will cost taxpayers billions and even trillions?
And the Democrats are accusing the Republicans of voting along party lines? Wow! Now that's really a case of the pot calling the kettle black!
This St. Patrick's Day, vote the leprechaun out!
#3The problem with the polls is this: those people that will most benefit from a successful public health care bill are the poor and socially deprived. These are not people given to staging large protests in favour of the bill or taking part in a telephone poll; they have their childrens mouths to feed, and most of the politics will pass them by cause the people who run these polls, by and large, really don't care.
By having a bill that means you still buy your healthcare from companies is a concession to the republicans; the more obvious route of public healthcare would be a system like the NHS, which, for all its failings and unecesary beurocracy, is actually quite good.
Try thinking about the whole picture for a change, not just the elephant shaped bit.
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There are lies, damned lies, and polls. Our politicians need to get over worrying about being popular and have the courage to act. The Senate bill was filled up with junk like the concession to the democrat from Nebraska. However, there were many parts of the bill that contained elements the majority of Americans want. Those who don't see the problems caused by the rising costs of health care are living with their heads in the sand. It's time the politicians of both parties start worrying less about polls and more about fixing the problem.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/02/republican_ideas.html