More Harm Than Good
Whoops. It seems that the American public – bless them – have figured out that Congressional Democrats do not have their best interests at heart. More people oppose the “stimulus” plan than back it (43% to 37%) – and fully one half say that the plan would do more harm than good. Best of all, support is declining very, very rapidly as more and more details leak out about what foolishness the Congress is trying to pass off as stimulating.
Two weeks ago, 45% supported the plan. Last week, 42% supported it. (Ed Note and now at 37%!)
Opposition has grown from 34% two weeks ago to 39% last week and 43% today.
Sixty-four percent (64%) of Democrats still support the plan. That figure is down from 74% a week ago. Just 13% of Republicans and 27% of those not affiliated with either major party agree.
Seventy-two percent (72%) of Republicans oppose the plan along with 50% of unaffiliated voters and 16% of Democrats.
Related survey data shows that half the nation’s voters say the plan that finally emerges from Congress may end up doing more harm than good.
At this rate, by the time Congress votes on this mess, nobody but Congress will be supporting it. Frankly, I suspect voters are getting a bit tired of hearing that passing out condoms and paying even more for bad art are going to make America boom again. The downright stupid plan rammed through the House by Nancy Pelosi – with no Republican support, or input – is doing serious damage to the Democrats as a party and to Barack Obama personally. In fact, between the spendaholic frenzy of Pelosi and company and the debacle of the double standard that applies to Obama’s political picks, as opposed to regular folks, Obama is really taking some serious political lumps.
I had a lot of faith that the Democrats would overreach badly as they so often do. But I had no idea they would be this spectacularly successful at failure this soon!
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