This week’s winner isn’t technically a “post.” There were a number of serious contenders in the blogosphere for this week’s prize, but none were quite as clueless as this NYT column by Nicholas Kristof.
His basic theme revolves around a false dichotomy frequently peddled by Obamacare advocates: Anyone not for a government takeover of the U.S. health care […]
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DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (VIII)
THE CHART THAT ATE CHICAGO: O’S APPROVAL RATING ON HEALTH REFORM
So much for the Chicago way. He’s made countless back room deals, twisted who knows how many arms and made a zillion speeches. Yet Obamacare is dead.
No matter what kind of skulduggery he pulls at next week’s Blair House summit, it won’t be enough to repair this damage. This is his signature issue, and he has failed:
ZOGBY POLL: 57% AGREE WITH GOP ON REFORM
Here’s yet another reason for the GOP to stick to its guns on health reform. A convincing majority of Americans agree with them that Congress and the President should start from scratch on health reform:
Of the more than 2,500 people surveyed from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1, 57 percent agreed with a statement that Congress […]
DUMBEST PALIN-BASHING POST OF THE WEEK
It’s sometimes difficult to escape the impression that most journalists are … ah … I’m trying to avoid Rahm Emanuel’s favorite epithet … er … kinda slow. A case in point is Bonnie Erbe, who posted the following at U.S. News & World Report:
I ask you, dear readers, is this the end of Sarah Palin’s presidential quest … The so-called […]
FOX POLL: ONLY 23% OF VOTERS WANT DEMS TO CONTINUE WITH CURRENT REFORM BILLS
The House and Senate versions of Obamacare are as dead as Ted Kennedy, and this survey shows that only a small minority of registered voters want these boondoggles revived:
A new Fox News Poll shows that less than one-quarter of American voters support passage of the legislation currently before Congress (23 percent).
In fact, fewer than half of Democrat voters support the current congressional health care “reform” bills, and nearly 40% of […]
PEW SURVEY: REPUBLICANS BETTER INFORMED THAN DEMOCRATS
Neither group sets the world on fire with its erudition, but Republicans tend to be more knowledgeable about current events than Democrats, according to a new survey conducted between Jan. 14 and Jan. 17:
Out of the 12 multiple-choice questions asked in a Pew Research Center phone survey of more than 1,000 adults, Republicans answered an […]
CNN POLL: ONLY 30% FAVOR OBAMACARE
The CNN headline, as usual, hides the worst news for the Dems. But the first paragraph admits that the congressional Obamacare bills are seriously unpopular:
Only three in ten Americans say they want Congress to pass legislation similar to the health care reform bills that have already been approved by the House and Senate, according to a […]
CNN POLL: 70% GLAD DEMS LOST 60TH VOTE
This survey underscores the sheer insanity of the continued desire on the part of the Democrats to jam Obamacare through despite the Bay State wake up call:
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday … indicates that 7 in 10 Americans believe that the Democrats’ loss of their 60 seat supermajority in the Senate is a positive […]
LEFTY POLL ANALYST PREDICTS SEVEN-SEAT SENATE LOSS FOR DEMS
Nate Silver, a poll analyst much beloved of the Left, has some bad news for the Democrats. His latest statistical model suggests that, when the smoke clears after November’s midterms, the Democrat Senate majority will be down to 52 seats. Here’s his chart showing the statistical probability of various electoral outcomes:
In terms of individual Senate seats, Silver’s model […]
GALLUP: 55% WANT OBAMACARE STOPPED
It’s not just the voters of Massachusetts who want this farce to stop. Gallup shows that a majority of the electorate has had enough:
In the wake of Republican Scott Brown’s victory in Tuesday’s U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts, the majority of Americans (55%) favor Congress’ putting the brakes on its current healthcare reform efforts and […]
