The new Republican House Majority

waterboy, You "never" provide anything of value on any topic; your meme is worthless drivel.
Why don't you grow up and provide opinions about the topic rather than your constant ad hominems?

Your mental capacity is that of a teenager. Grow up!

Nothing good has come from the democrats in many years, but the dumbmasses keep voting for dems
thus proving what everyone knows - democrats appeal to the least intelligent, most ignorant Americans.

In short, this as close as you can get in American politics to mutually assured destruction. No matter how Machiavellian your outlook, it’s very hard to make the case that any politician with a significant amount of power would become more powerful in the event of a debt default. They also would be harmed personally, since many Congressmen have significant investments in credit, stock or housing markets, all of which would be adversely affected.

Fido, waterboy only uses ad hominems and never provides anything that even touches on the topic under discussion. His teenager posts will never grow to any level of intelligent discourse.

I tolerate you idiots (fIDO, cYCLO, pOM, iMPOSTER etc...) because I find
you and your ilk entertaining, kind of like observing rats in a little maze.

You don't know what's going on or what you are doing and you fight when
you face each other. You are also tolerated because my snake is hungry.

Fido, That would be true if they lived in reality, but they don't. They're still questioning Obama's birthplace. If you can succeed in changing their fantasy land creation on these boards, good luck to you. You'll need it, because you're working on an impossible task. Agreements? LOL

Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Bad news for Congressional Republicans
PPP's newest national poll finds that after a little more than 3 months in charge House Republicans have fallen so far out of favor with the American public that it's entirely possible Democrats could take control of the House back next year.

43% of voters think that House Republicans are doing a worse job now than the Democrats did, compared to only 36% who think the GOP has brought an improvement. 19% think things are about the same. 62% of voters thinking that the Republicans have either made things worse or brought no improvement to an already unpopular Congress does not bode particularly well for the party.

46% of voters say that if there was an election for Congress today they would vote Democratic, compared to only 41% who would vote Republican. That five point advantage for Democrats is only a hair below the margin Republicans won by in the national popular vote last year. A victory of that magnitude for the Democrats next year would at the very least result in the party taking back a large number of the seats it lost last year, and it could be enough to take back the outright majority- hard to say at this point without knowing how good a number the GOP can do in redistricting.

The key to this strong movement back toward the Democrats right now is the same as the key to the strong movement away from the Democrats last year- fickle independents quickly growing unhappy with the party in power. Exit polls showed independents supporting the GOP by a 19 point margin last year at 56-37. Now only 30% of those voters think that the Republican controlled House is moving things in the right direction, compared to 44% who think things were better with the Democrats. Given those numbers it's not much of a surprise that independents now say they'd vote Democratic for the House by a 42-33 margin if these was an election today, representing a 28 point reversal in a span of just five months.

These poll numbers also point to the reality that Republicans taking control of the House may have been one of the best things that could possibly have happened for Obama's reelection prospects. Although we found the President with slightly negative approval numbers on this poll, when asked whether they had more faith in Obama or Congressional Republicans to lead the country in the right direction 48% of voters picked Obama to only 42% who went with Congressional Republicans. Voters may not love Obama as once they did but they're finding him to be more reasonable than the alternative and that means it will be hard for the GOP to knock him off next year without a top notch nominee.

One thing is very much for certain- it's not 2010 anymore.

In my reality, I support the "real" conservative goals of less government, but what the GOP is doing to this country is playing politics mixed in with religion; a dangerous game. They talk about "right to life," but how they handle that issue is to kill everything that is also good like Planned Parenthood. They are aggressive in their actions that play well to the core extremists of the party, and they believe in fiction more than the reality of their play book. Look at all those republican governors who are trying to kill public unions, and how the GOP is now working to destroy Medicare and and Medicaid. It's as if there aren't any conservatives who survive on Medicare and Medicaid, social security, or our educational system to give bigger tax breaks to those who already own 71% of this country's wealth.

They still seem to get their party's support, and that is the big 64 thousand dollar question; why?

In my reality, I support the "real" conservative goals of less government, but what the GOP is doing to this country is playing politics mixed in with religion; a dangerous game. They talk about "right to life," but how they handle that issue is to kill everything that is also good like Planned Parenthood. They are aggressive in their actions that play well to the core extremists of the party, and they believe in fiction more than the reality of their play book. Look at all those republican governors who are trying to kill public unions, and how the GOP is now working to destroy Medicare and and Medicaid. It's as if there aren't any conservatives who survive on Medicare and Medicaid, social security, or our educational system to give bigger tax breaks to those who already own 71% of this country's wealth.

They still seem to get their party's support, and that is the big 64 thousand dollar question; why?

This is a country founded on revolution, and revolution is the true conservative value;