This should slow down the Charge of the Lightbringer Brigade sooner or later.
Fifty-four percent (54%) of U.S. voters say tax cuts for the middle class are more important than new spending for health care reform, even as President Obama’s top economic advisers signal that tax hikes may be necessary.
That’s not exactly the kind of feedback President Obama will be getting from his cherry-picked audiences filled with agreement monkeys at his fake town hall meetings. Did he really go to an Ivy League law school or did he get an MFA in theater?
It is important to note that this question asked about new government spending for health care reform rather than about the overall concept of health care reform itself.
Oh, you mean that people are generally opposed to the way the president wants to do it? I’m good with that.
I hate to evoke memories of Fluffy Edwards but we truly have come to a “two Americas” point in our history. On the one hand, we have the unquestioning supporters of all things Obama, desperate for it all to have a fairy tale ending because this presidency is just so freakin’ historic. On the other, we have an ever-growing number of citizens who who realize that every time the president says “need” and “spend” in the same sentence, the hand of the government gets closer to their wallets.
The president and his advocates have been telling us for over a year that they can spend all they want and not raise taxes on the middle class because “the rich” have so much money. (There are two things “the rich” become when a government financially assaults them in this fashion: “the middle class” or “the people who find places to hide the money”.) By peddling the “no middle class tax hike” the administration has been, in modern political science parlance, jerking you off.
Progressive Democrats have a third generation trust fund kid’s mentality. They don’t really know how all the wealth was created and they can’t conceive of it not being there one day. Like every irresponsible trust fund kid, they find increasingly more convoluted reasons for why they need the money right now. They wake up in the middle of the night screaming “Urgent!”. Why? Because even a cursory examination of the rationale for spending reveals that it’s a horrible idea.
How long can this nation groan under the stress of the dichotomy between the president’s personal popularity and the fact that millions more wake up each day loathing his policy ideas? His approach to health care and energy has an economic scorched earth feel to it. He wants to get it done now just because he said he would, long term economic consequences be damned.
Once Obama supporters understand that they can support the president without having to be in love with his every breath we may be able to save this country from a disastrous overhaul that can’t be un-overhauled when the financial feces hits the fan.
Drink up, kids, this is going to be a long one.