Rasmussen polled on whether to raise taxes or allow the Obama government’s massive sequestration cuts to happen. A majority opposes both.
Most voters believe Congress and the president should work to extend the tax cuts set to expire at the end of this year, but don’t think they should allow the automatic spending cuts to take effect at that time.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 60% of Likely Voters believe the government should extend the variety of tax cuts, including those implemented during the George W. Bush administration, past the end of the year. Just 28% believe Congress and the president should let those tax cuts expire. Another 12% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Have some cake, America. You can eat it too.
– polls? We just had the election less than a week ago.
The buzz seems to be that Obama is expecting us to go over the cliff, presumably this is the wisdom of his brain (sic) trust, that he will blame the wascallay wepublicans and come out ahead politically.
That Obama will not deal honestly or respectfully with Boehner or any Republican, and even if Obama would, Reid and Pelosi will not.
Boehner sounds like he’s going to stick to his guns, and I sure hope he does. Boehner is offering a minor compromise, but Obama will not listen, does not WANT to agree, and this will just be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
This regime lives on the Big Lie, it’s all they know, it won them reelection, and I don’t expect anything else from them going forward.
I don’t think he should stick to his guns. I think the Republicans should announce, LOUDLY, that for the next two years they’re going to rubber stamp everything the Democrats send them. “You wanted it America, you got it” should be their new motto.
Then when the mid-terms come up their entire campaign can consist of the slogan “Had Enough Yet?”.
What ?
They are so idiot to re-elect this empty chair and then they are so idiot that they want Republican policies …
Enjoy your increase in taxes, shut up, and watch what will happen to the economy.
You won, you get it.
There’s always been a huge gulf between how voters opine/vote on issues and how they vote on people. The donkeys do a much better job of marketing the flesh. Romney was unacceptable because he is rich, but Kerry was a man of the people.
Go figure.
Squestration is what Bohener and the rest of the RINOS negotiated with the Won. When they negotiated, they had no intention of it ever going into affect and thus let the super committee fail.
Well now it’s here, let it run it’s course and let the evil Bush tax cuts expire.
Then the people can have what they voted for.
The republicans are going to get blamed by the Dems and the media no matter how we go over the cliff, so rather than trying to delay it longer, let’s go off the cliff and then pick up the pieces.
Yep let it expire and refuse to raise the debt limit.
I learned long ago not to try and deal with schizos and psychotics; Republicans should learn a similar lesson.
Makes you wonder why they voted to re-elect him. The Dems claim that since he campaigned on making the wealthy “pay their fair share,” he has a mandate to do just that. They claim some 60+ percent of us want to raise taxes on the wealthy.
I was at Chartwell, the home of WInston Churchill which was his Rivendell. Quite painful to compare leaders. But Obama is not an empty chair. His whole modus operandi is to change the nation into a a socialist state…a Chavez lite, at least initially. He wants sequestration because it is the easiest way to cut the military. He is aided and abetted by a state run media that was surprised in 2010 but definitely prepared in 2012. We have a policy of divide and conquer with entitlements as the carrot. We have two generations of students that have been indoctrinated by Academia, the entertainment industry, as well as the MSM. Just pray that we do not submit and agree to amnesty and/or more taxes. Let the Democrats be totally responsible. Why enlarge another group that will simply vote for Entitlement Party Heavy? In 2008 our Republicans passed the stimulus bill and caved on Obamacare. I was a student at UC Berkeley and watched how the radicals took a fine University over and made it into a radical indoctrination center. Again, he is no empty chair but has an agenda.
A solid majority of Americans fit into one of three catagories:
1) They genuinely wanted Obama to win
2) They thought there was no difference between Obama and Romney
3) They didn’t care one way or the other
All of those beliefs run along a continuum of stupidity. If you don’t like what Obama has planned then you should have been smart and/or interested enough to vote against him when you had the chance. You didn’t, so now you can shut up and get with his program.
It’s a shame the rest of us have to be collateral damage in your painful math education, but hopefully you’ll finally learn some kind of lesson.