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RFNAPLES
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Mr. Shankly
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- #26
- Posted: 11/07/2010 10:14
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RFNAPLES wrote: | |
Funny how this was never an issue for most republicans when Bush was in office. Sure, we can pay for two wars and tax cuts for the rich, no problem.
Congratulations to the Republicans for taking over the House, but the tea bag movement appears to have hurt the Republicans as much as help them. Had it not been for nominating at least three lunatic candidates, they might also have captured the senate. Case in point: By all accounts, Harry Reid in Nevada should have lost, but thanks to the ideologues in the tea party, he's still the senate majority leader. Whoops!
Just out of curiosity, what major corporation does the dude in What We Believe work for?
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Mr. Shankly
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- Posted: 11/25/2010 00:30
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Quote: | SPIN METER: Tea partiers' views far from others
(AP) – 1 day ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tea party backers fashion themselves as "we the people," but polls show the Republican Party's most conservative and energized voters are hardly your average crowd.
According to an Associated Press-GfK Poll this month, 84 percent who call themselves tea party supporters don't like how President Barack Obama is handling his job — a view shared by just 35 percent of all other adults. Tea partiers are about four times likelier than others to back repealing Obama's health care overhaul and twice as likely to favor renewing tax cuts for the highest-earning Americans.
Exit polls of voters in this month's congressional elections reveal similar gulfs. Most tea party supporters — 86 percent — want less government intrusion on people and businesses, but only 35 percent of other voters said so. Tea party backers were about five times likelier to blame Obama for the country's economic ills, three times likelier to say Obama's policies will be harmful and twice as apt to see the country on the wrong track.
These aren't subtle shadings between tea party backers and the majority of Americans, who don't support the movement; they're Grand Canyon-size chasms. |
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art...6d4d03a513
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