About that health care package that EVERYONE wants? Yeah, not so freakin’ much.
As Ed points out at Hot Air, this is Quinnipiac, the pollsters my lefty friends love bringing up. No Rasmussen bogeyman in the house this time.
There was, however, some news from Rasmussen that further indicates the great divide between what Americans actually want and what our alleged representatives keep forcing down our throats.
As the policy debate has unfolded in Washington this year, voters have consistently believed that tax cuts would do more than increased government spending to stimulate the economy and create jobs. Now that the nation’s unemployment rate has reached 10.2%, voters continue to hold that view.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 62% believe tax cuts are a better way to create jobs and fight unemployment. Only 21% believe that additional stimulus spending is a more effective tool. Earlier this year, as the first stimulus package was being debated in Congress, 62% of voters wanted the plan to have more tax cuts and less spending.
Hey guys, thanks SO much for listening.
The way things have gone here in ’09 follows this pattern: President Obama gives one of his quarter-hourly speeches and tells us that what he wants is what “the majority of Americans want”. His pants-crapping little minions in what used to be the press then mindlessly repeat whatever their master told them to say. For the left fringe of sanity, this is enough to make a “truth”.
The glitch in the situation comes when someone asks the real “majority of Americans” what they want. One has to wander outside of Washington, Manhattan or Hollywood to pose that question, however. And we all know that no self-respecting hardcore lefty would be caught dead outside any of those three places unless he was in a private trailer on a movie set or safely tucked away in a penthouse hotel suite so he could both literally and figuratively look down on the majority of Americans.
The Quinnipiac poll said that most Americans like President Obama but not his policies. Why? Because his policies are vanity legacy projects that don’t take their needs into account. The policies aren’t very reality-based either.
We can do something about this now or we can punt the problem to our kids and hope that the Kool-Aid isn’t mandated as the only drink in public schools.
the only Kool-Aid anyone is drinking is the Kool-Aid you’re getting from FOX news
Tyrel-another brain-dead lib making another brain-dead (and incorrect) assumption. Go back to spanking it in your fantasy world and don’t let anything from the real world hurt your head.
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Regarding unwanted Obamacare, to begin with, Democrats are wrongly ignoring the following basic constitutional problem with their healthcare legislation. Given the federal Constitution is silent about public healthcare, the 10th A. automatically reserves government power to regulate healthcare to the states, not the Oval Office and Congress.
In fact, the USSC has not only already decided that the federal government cannot lay taxes for issues that are rightly state power issues, but has also singled out medical practice as one such issue. Here are some relevant case opinion excerpts.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” –Chief Justice Marshall, GIBBONS V. OGDEN, 1824. http://supreme.justia.com/us/22/1/case.html
“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925. http://supreme.justia.com/us/268/5/case.html
Again, not only is Obamacare constitutionally unauthorized, but the corrupt Congress doesn’t have the power to lay taxes to fund Obamacare.
Next, the Founder’s intentions for a limited power federal government be damned, Democratic lawmakers are perverting the general welfare and Commerce clauses to force unconstitutional Obamacare down our throats; Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 3 respectively. This is evidenced by Thomas Jefferson’s clear explanations of these clauses. Here’s Jefferson’s comment about the Commerce clause, for example.
“For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State, (that is to say of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.” –Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson’s Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/bank-tj.asp
Note that Jefferson also explained the Founder’s intentions for the general welfare clause at the above link. Again, Jefferson’s writings expose the Democratic perversions of these clauses.
What federal lawmakers are actually obligated to do to establish federal healthcare is this. Given Congress no constitutional authority to regulate healthcare, Article V requires Congress to propose an amendment to the states to voluntarily surrender their power to regulate healthcare to Congress; the states can always choose not to ratify such an amendment. In fact, several healthcare related USSC case opinions clearly indicate that the states have never surrendered such power to Congress.
The bottom line is that the Congressmen who vote yes on Obamacare legislation will make a handy list of lawmakers who need to be charged with treason for blatantly violating their oaths to defend the Constitution.
Finally, the following words of Jefferson are appropriate for any official actions of the Oval Office and Congress which approve constitutionally unauthorized Obamacare.
“Where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy.” –Thomas Jefferson: Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798. http://tinyurl.com/oozoo