Why has President Obama been stymied by Congress? poll in local paper.....

[a kennedy]

Monday's poll results:

Obama has tried to do too much at once: 9.8 percent

Obama's proposals are too liberal to command broad support: 64.6 percent

Obama's proposals are too conservative to get his base behind them: 0.0 percent

Republicans in the Senate make it impossible for Democrats to do anything: 25.6 percent

http://www.lacrossetribune.com/promo/homepage/article_f17508c2-207c-11df-944b-001cc4c002e0.html

I hate living in this conservative area..... :grr: :puke: :mad:

[panader0]

1. Where's the choice of racism?

I think that a good part of repub resistance to Obama is the ugly undercurrent of racism. Can you imagine how the Limbaugh crowd would feel if a man of color fixed the problems? Their brains can't compute that stuff. Therefore, they want him and his administration to fail. His policies are not especially liberal, so that's not the reason.

[patrice]

2. Needs an LTTE telling them that they need to establish the pollee's knowledge base for their

opinions to have any relevance, otherwise such polls are pure LIE.

[quantass]

3. Hahahah, TOO LIBERAL? Ironic that if O were actually Progressive he'd still get the same flak BUT

would have a liberal base who loved him AND there WOULD be change. A lesson to us all. Follow through on your principles and fuck the re-election possibilities of the future. You know, like Bush.

[OHdem10]

4. He is too liberal by GOP standards because he had the audacity

to call for Universal Health Care. It has nothing to do with
what is in the bill.

Pure and simple Democrats need to learn to get to the heart of
argument and develop talking points appropriately to the issue.

The very fact that Democrats are trying to pass HIR and make
HC available to all Americans is indeed " going Left".

This is what the GOP is opposed to. On more than one occasion
individual Republicans have admitted. We do not believe you
should take from one group in order to benefit another group.
This is why none of their plans show serious effort to cover
the uninsured.

We all know the particular plan developed in the Senate is more
a RW plan than a Democratic Plan. The reason Conservatives
have not signed on---They see this as redistribution or taking
from one group to benefit another.

Why are Democrats so hesitant to call Republicans out on this.
Conservatives simply do not believe the Government should be
providing or assisting people to obtain Health Care. Instead
they permit the Republicans to nitpick this item and that, acting
as if they really support HCR.