Rasmussen’s tracking polls show support for the President/Pelosi Pork Package is slipping:
Fifty percent (50%) of U.S. voters say the final economic recovery plan that emerges from Congress is at least somewhat likely to make things worse rather than better, but 39% say such an outcome is not likely (see crosstabs).
Twenty-seven percent (27%) say the final legislation is Very Likely to make things worse, while just seven percent (7%) say it’s Not at All Likely to have that effect, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Support for the legislation has been slipping over the past two weeks and a plurality now oppose it.
It’s going to be difficult to sell the Senate on a trillion-dollar gamble that’s opposed by a near-majority of voters.
People didn’t want the bail out either, but it was pushed through. If we just sit around and gripe about it, they’ll pass it, but if we start calling and writing like people did with immigration reform, than there’s a chance it won’t go through.
I think that so long as the Republicans can hang tight against it the Dems won’t have the guts to pass it. The shield of double standards will only protect you so much for so long. If the stimulus bill was passed and it doesn’t do what it is publicly touted to do the Democrats need to be able to point at the Republicans and say that it didn’t work because of compromises that they had to make with the evil Republicans, and to hell with reality when they say this. Its all a variant of the old Flip Wilson line that “the Devil made me do it.”
If you take this expedient away from them they will know that their own political careers may hang in the balance, and anything that jeopardizes that is something that they cannot and will not compromise on.
These people can’t even pay their taxes! More indiscriminate pork-barrel government spending will not help our economy recover. More consumer spending will, but that can only come with a stimulus in the form of tax refunds.