Poll: 60% of Americans Want Democrats to STAND UP to Bush

[liberalpragmatist]

From WSJ Washington Whispers via PoliticalWire:

http://www.politicalwire.com

"American want Democrats to stand up to Bush," the Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire reports. "Fully 60%, including one-fourth of Republicans, say Democrats in Congress should make sure Bush and his party 'don't go too far.' Just 34% want Democrats to 'work in a bipartisan way' to help pass the president's priorities."

I don't have a subscription to the Wall Street Journal, so I can't reach the original source.

[cornermouse]

1. And if the democrats finally stand up to Bush,

that should put an end to Bush & Company's ability to accuse the democrats of not being able to take a solid position, weakness, wafflers, etc.

[deadparrot]

2. If they didn't want ** to "go too far,"

why the HELL did they vote for him?

[Jade Fox]

6. Yes, it sounds like they want the Democrats to...

do their job and be their conscience for them.

[Hobarticus]

3. Screw that...Dems want AMERICANS to stand up to Bush!

"We re-elected him...why are you Dems letting him get away with this?"

Oy...

[Langis]

4. Too bad that about 34% of Senate democrats want to

'work in a bipartisan way'

For example, the class action reform just passed with the help of democrats.

We are not an oposition...

[aquart]

5. Terrified of what they've done, are they?

Now WE are supposed to clean up their mess?

Let's see a REPUBLICAN stand up to der Furhrer.

[Anakin Skywalker]

7. Politics is No Fun

if it's just a bunch of Agree-fests.

[Renew Deal]

8. Yeah baby!!!

That's sweet!

[glitch]

9. I bet that's the same 60% that voted against him in the last election. nt

[4nemesis]

10. It Is The Illusion Of Opposition

Senate Dems are pretty lame. They pretend to be the opposition - but when you come right down to it they work for the same interests that conservatives do. ONE BIG ILLUSION!

Take the Rice nomination as SOS. How many senate dems said they are opposed but will vote for her anyway? They do this all the time.

I don't see it changing anytime soon either.

[Selatius]

11. The Democratic leadership seems crippled by corporatism and careerism

Few want to fight because few are willing to put their own position at risk in standing up and fighting for the sake of the people. They're either simply too self-interested or have sold out to the money lenders.

I fear these people are asking for a very tall order if they want Democratic big-wigs to stand up and fight as a front. Dean seems up for a good struggle, but I am not so sure about the rest of the Senate Democrats outside of Boxer and a few others.

[Cha]

12. And 40% want more

cowering..chicken shits that they are.

I guess Dean is right in line with the majority of the DEms, then.

[Enquiringkitty]

13. Rep.s elected him; give him enough rope to hang himself ..... then

history will show him as the idiot he is, having run this governmental corporation into the ground just as he did every other company he's gotten his hands on. Best of all options is for demos to block everything he tries to pass ... make the next 3 years a dead-heat like he wasn't even there. That calls for unity in the democratic party. Is that possible?

[bunny planet]

14. it's a little late for that. Hasn't he already gone too far, again.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

15. And Bush won the election? From so many of the poll numbers

that have come out since the election,it appears to me, that just like the exit polls of election night, Bush lost, and by a lot.

[bling bling]

16. I hope the Dems in Congress are listening. n/t

[usregimechange]

17. KICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[saltpoint]

18. It's running around 100% at my house. n/t

[Piperay]

19. Now the repukes are

wanting the Democrats to stop the idiot they elected??? x( I really don't care what they want, they should have to suffer with the consequences of their vote. :nopity: I DO WANT the Democrats though to fight for their supporters, the people who didn't want or vote for chimp.

[nonconformist]

20. This absolutely infuriates me

I heard Republicans say many times before the election "oh, he'd never do ______, the Democrats won't allow that" or "well, the Democrats will keep them in check, it won't be that bad".

*scream*

Yes, let's elect a madman and count on the people you consider scum to keep him in line.

[Eric J in MN]

21. liberalpragmatist - this is it in full below

It's just a short item among many describing the poll here:
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/media/poll20050216.pdf


AMERICANS WANT DEMOCRATS to stand up to Bush.

Fully 60%, including one-fourth of Republicans, say Democrats in Congress should make sure Bush and his party "don't go too far." Just 34% want Democrats to "work in a bipartisan way" to help pass the president's priorities.

Like Bush, new Democratic Chairman Dean polarizes opinion. By 45% to 5%, Democrats say he will project a positive image rather than a negative one; Republicans say the opposite by 37% to 19%. Independents divide more evenly.

[DemocracyInaction]

22. Yep, saw similar polls before. So why didn't 60% of the fuckers go

out and vote against him?? Cry me a river you shitheads. God this makes one furious. Gee are they getting scared of losing their asses?? They should be scared and they should lose them. Stupid people need to have their noses rubbed in the dung in order to learn.

[sampsonblk]

23. ...because they were presented a weak alternative

Its time to stand up to Bush, like these people are saying - or else keep losing elections.

[ckramer]

24. And where were these people in 2004 election?

[Quixote1818]

25. I just sent that to every news organization. They need to be aware of this

I suggest everyone else send it around as well.

[sarcasmo]

26. The snowball is rolling, keep it going.

[bunny planet]

27. Well duh!!! Would somebody clue them in please. They don't seem to be

getting the message. When they approve 'Necroponte' without a fight that will really be infuriating. By the time they decide to filibuster something, the Repukes will have made it illegal.

HELP!