Another Poll

Wingnut Republican Vern Buchanan wants to know if you support health care reform.

I suggest you let him know...

:)

Which Kind Of Public Option Do You Want?

Senator Dick Durbin, part of the Democratic Senatorial leadership team, would like to know which version of the public option Americans would like to see included in health care reform. Please go here and vote.

Action Needed: Another Health Care Poll

There is a health care poll online for the paper of record in Republican Congressman Adam Putnam's 12 congressional district down here in Florida over whether there should be a public option in the health care reform bills. Please go to the site and vote!

You can find the poll on the bottom right.

Thank You!

I wanted to take a moment and thank all of those who participated in the Alan Grayson poll the other night. The results as of this morning have over 70% of voters saying he should not apologize with just under 60% saying he was telling the truth. This shows we CAN win the internet when we want to!

What do you think?

Does Orlando Congressman Alan Grayson owe the U.S. House an apology for saying that Republicans want sick Americans to die quickly?

Yes. His comments were outrageous and over the top. (2977 responses)
24.9%

No. He deserves credit for having the courage to tell the truth. (7165 responses)
59.9%

Yes. If Grayson really wants health-care reform, this isn't the way to get it. (494 responses)
4.1%

No. Republicans have already shown they aren't interested in doing anything but blocking health care reform. (1331 responses)
11.1%

11967 total responses
(Results not scientific)

URGENT! Please Show Your Support For Alan Grayson.

If you support Congressman Alan Grayson and the rhetorical spanking he has given the GOP over the last few days on health care reform, please take a second and go over and vote in this poll.

Thanks in advance!

Cowards On Facebook

I can only hope that the Secrets Service is going to show these cowards just how unfunny it is to joke about killing the President of the United States.

So Much For "Dictatorial Handshakes" And "International Apologies"

When it comes to the GOP, President Obama has pretty much become Mr. Untouchable.

For the first time in years, more Americans than not say the country is headed in the right direction, a sign that Barack Obama has used the first 100 days of his presidency to lift the public's mood and inspire hopes for a brighter future.

Intensely worried about their personal finances and medical expenses, Americans nonetheless appear realistic about the time Obama might need to turn things around, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. It shows most Americans consider their new president to be a strong, ethical and empathetic leader who is working to change Washington.

Somewhere Rasmussen's Head Just Exploded

From Democracy Corps

Remarkably, voters view Limbaugh negatively by a two-to-one ratio (53 to 26 percent), with nearly half the country, 45 percent, viewing him very, very negatively. Among independents, the ratio rises to three-to-one. More important are the values that Limbaugh espouses. By a nearly two-to-one ratio (57 to 32 percent) a majority of voters – and independents – say Limbaugh does not “share their values,” but Republicans are in a different world where, by two-to-one, they believe he shares them.

Voters clearly think Limbaugh is a major force in the party and indeed, a near majority of voters, 49 percent, say that Limbaugh has too much influence over Republican ideas and direction – compared to just 15 percent who say he has too little. This is happening at a time when two-thirds say “the average voter” has too little influence over the Republican Party.

(h/t Oliver Willis)

What The People Want

As you know I have put up my own straw poll over there ---> to try to gauge in a totally unscientific way what the mood of the country is in relation to the prospect of investigating and potentially prosecuting Bush & Co. for abuses while in office. The Ruth Marcusean Villagers of course have tried to convince all of us that the American people don't want to see them investigated and just want to move on. Of course up until now we haven't actually had any data to either disprove or back up those kinds of statements and my frustration with this is what led me to put up my own poll. Welp it seems the Washington Post/ABC News folk finally decided to pull their heads out of their arses and do a scientific nationwide poll on the issue. Glenzilla has all the ins and outs of this topic and others included in the poll but I am just going to excerpt the parts where he expounds on what the polls say about this issue.

Even more surprisingly for spouters of conventional wisdom, a majority of Americans (50-47%) believe that the Obama administration should investigate whether the Bush administration's treatment of detainees was illegal.

Thats right, a MAJORITY of Americans want to see investigations into torture. And thats not all...

Relatedly, Americans would have opposed (52-42%) the issuance of pardons by Bush to those "who carried out his administration's policy on the treatment of terrorism suspects." The poll confined itself in these questions to investigations into detainee abuse, and did not ask about investigations into other Bush crimes, such as illegal spying, obstruction of justice and various DOJ crimes.

Yes you read that right, the MAJORITY of Americans also wouldn't have wanted Bush shielding his cohorts from investigation and prosecution.

What's most remarkable about the fact that a majority of Americans favor investigations is that one has to struggle to find even a single politician of national significance or a prominent media figure who argue that position. The notion that Bush officials shouldn't be criminally investigated is about as close to a lockstep consensus among political and media elites as it gets, and yet, still, a majority of Americans favor such investigations.

Just another example of the Village and our elected officials being tone deaf to what the country wants.

UPDATE: In the last week alone, The Washington Post's David Ignatius twice said that those who advocate investigations into Bush crimes are nothing more than "liberal score-settlers." Newsweek's Jon Barry angrily accused those who advocate investigations of lying about their belief in the rule of law because (he can divine) that they are instead motivated by "vengeance, pure and simple." And yesterday, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham claimed that it is those on what he called "the hard left" who believe in investigations.

Apparently, it is the case -- yet again -- that majorities of Americans are hard-left, score-settling, vengeance-driven liberals, who embrace views that are claimed by the Beltway to be nothing but "fringe leftist ideological rantings" (a synonym for: "those who do not believe in prevailing Beltway pieties").

Yeah, imagine that. Now its true that we shouldn't jump to conclusions based on just one poll. For all I or anybody else knows tomorrow Gallup might come out with a similar poll that has the numbers flipped. Of course the numbers could also be skewed even more in favor of investigations. But I am just happy that finally somebody had the courage to go out and get this question asked and answered by the people of this nation. At least now we have some impirical evidence of what we really think instead of having to rely on Villagers to make that call for us. And that is always a beautiful thing!

The Chessmaster Strikes Again.

MSNBC has an article up about a just released NYTimes poll which reveals that most Americans not only approve of Barack Obama but are also willing to be patient with him and give him time to implement his agenda. Please feel free to check out the poll, I for one am all polled out at this point. We get it, they like him, blah blah blah. But I just HAD to excerpt this lady's quotes to illustrate my point again about how Obama is moving the goal posts under everyone's noses. Check out how this Republican lady explains why she answered the poll the way she did.

“I think those of us who voted for McCain are going to be a lot happier with Obama than the people who voted for him,” Valerie Schlink, 46, a Republican from Valparaiso, Ind., said in an interview after participating in the poll. “A lot of the things he said he would do, like pulling out the troops in 16 months and giving tax cuts to those who make under $200,000, I think he now sees are going to be a lot tougher than he thought and that the proper thing to do is stay more towards the middle and ease our way into whatever has to be done. It can’t all be accomplished immediately.”

The ridiculous pot shot she takes at us "dirty hippies" she takes in the beginning aside, notice the two examples she pointed to as to why people who voted for McCain are going to be happy with Obama.

1. The 16 month timetable for withdrawal in Iraq

2. Tax cuts for everyone making under $200,000.

Ahem, maybe she hadn't noticed but the Status of Forces Agreement already has a timetable in it that we have to abide by and the Iraqi's have the ability to actually make us leave earlier with the referendum their citizens are going to vote on this spring. To put it bluntly nothing has changed. If anything America will be getting out of Iraq faster than before.

As to the tax cuts uhmmm what did she think was in Obama's stimulus plan that he submitted to Congress last week?

Man I have to tell you, I am not one for over hyping someone but this guy is killing em right now. Next thing you know he is going to have wingnuts saying universal healthcare ain't so bad after all! LOL

Now my fellow liberals and progressives keep this in mind the next time you are ready to fly off the handle about something President Obama "might" do. Sometimes you just have to work the refs a little and he definitely seems to know how to win the game.