This is the second Gallup survey conducted in the last two weeks showing that the American public broadly supports Obama's jobs plan[Other news: Perry releases stock holdings – According to the governor’s tax returns, the trust lost $308,496 between 1996 and 2009.]
Gallup | Published Sept. 20, 2011 - Polling period, Sept. 15-18 | Americans Favor Jobs Plan Proposals, including Taxing the Rich PRINCETON, NJ – Slightly more than half of rank-and-file Republicans and Republican-leaning independents favor the idea of eliminating certain corporate tax deductions as a way to pay for a jobs creation bill. Forty-one percent of Republicans favor raising taxes on higher-income Americans. Democrats strongly favor both proposals for paying for the cost of the jobs bill.
Americans agree with a number of the job-creation proposals included in Obama's jobs plan -- specifically including the ideas of providing tax cuts to small businesses; providing additional funds for hiring teachers, police officers, and firefighters; and giving tax breaks to corporations for hiring the long-term unemployed. Slightly less than half favor reducing Social Security taxes for workers and employers.
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This is more proof that the Republicans in Congress stand for nothing more than obstructionism. N'er-do-wells all. They won't even listen to their own people. VOTE EM OUT!! Let's get our country moving again.
The TEA Party is holding the Republican leadership hostage. Talk about weak-kneed wusses, Obama aint got nothing over those guys.
We are finally starting to see a much more general backlash against these facts-depleted right wing politicians and their deceptive elitist pro-big business economic agenda.
More to the point, the Republican mob is engaged in an uncivil war, the worst assault on the accepted premises of our union since the post-reconstruction era attempt to revive the south.
Further, the GOP is proposing that our country be ruled by one of an assortment of knaves, fools and hucksters.
But to be fair, let's be honest about the other side. Based on his first term so far, Barack Obama is one of the most disappointing Democratic presidents we have seen since WW2.
He has been untrustworthy, misleading and less than competent. Never in modern American history have so many voters cast their ballot for someone who turned out to be so different than they had imagined.
Sure, he’s the best of the current lot, but he won’t get any better without some real pressure from his base. The way things are going we’ll be seeing bumper stickers that read:
“Vote for Obama. . and save a little bit of your Social Security.”
We would be wiser to use our consumer and investment power to change directions.
Conservatives need to start being real conservatives rather than ignorant right wing Republicans and liberals must stop pretending that voting a Democrat in office is all they need to do.
As to "Republicans support Obama's jobs creation plan," these national conservatives are clearly tired of the Republican Tea Party clowns and the rich getting richer at their expense.
There may be hope yet.
I am amazed by the results of this poll. From all the rancor from the right, I would have thought Republicans were overwhelmingly against everything President Obama ever tries to do. Wonders will never cease.
The Fox News/Google debate of Republican candidates will be held in Orlando, Florida Thursday night (Sept. 22, 8-10 pm). The usual 8 suspects will be there, plus Gary Johnson, former governor of New Mexico.
Fox has already received over 20,000 questions for the debaters. Many of the questions have to do with immigration, they say.
On Saturday the Florida straw poll will be held.
The Republicans are now the “How great is it to be stupid?” party.
In perpetrating the idea that there’s no intellectual requirement for the office of the US presidency, the right wing dunce of the party - Rick Perry - offers voters a “Dumb and Dumber” primary in which evolution is avant-garde.
Sarah Palin, who got outraged at a “gotcha” question about what newspapers and magazines she read, is the mother of stupid conservatism. "I can see Russia when I wear my Dominatrix boots."
Another “Don’t Know Much About History” Tea Party heroine, Michele Bachmann, seems rather proud of not knowing anything, simply repeating nutty, inflammatory medical claims that somebody in the crowd tells her.
So we’re choosing between the overintellectualized professor from Harvard and three blockheads boasting about their anti-science vacuity?
The occupational hazard of democracy is know-nothing voters.
But even worse would be know-nothing candidates.
Perry released what Perry wanted to release, nothing more nothing less.
Our American democracy is reaping the consequences of our sustained failure to honor, support and improve public education.
Governance in America is being reduced to a choice between the widespread greedy corporate elitists and the emerging under-educated bubbas.
Supplanting the increasing loss of respect for and reliance on an educated population is the surge in religious ferver without compromise or tolerance that is driving our American democracy into a corporatocracy.
Instead of wanting to grow up to be president, future generations will want to grow up to be CEOs. Those who can’t be CEOs will become elected officials---who do the bidding of CEOs.
My generation, whose time is running out, is well equipped to withstand this insidious onslaught. It’s our children and grandchildren for whom I am concerned.
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