The GOP “suicide caucus”, led by proud “wacko bird” Sen. Ted Cruz, was, not surprisingly, spawned from a faulty premise.
Their kamikaze campaign to defund President Obama’s signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act, ridiculously rests on the idea that they are reflecting “the will of the American people.” It’s true that Obamacare is not the most popular government program in history.
But hardly anyone outside this pestiferous little posse supports defunding the law, especially at the cost of a government shutdown.
In a widely touted USA Today/Pew Research survey, 53 percent of Americans expressed disapproval of Obamacare. But of those 53 percent, just 23 percent saidthey wanted Republicans to do what they could to kill the health-care law.A Kaiser Family Foundation poll asked, “Would you say you approve or disapprove of cutting off funding as a way to stop some or all of the law from being put into place?” Defunding was opposed 56-37. When the possibility of a government shutdown was factored in, there was even less support. In the CNBC All-America Economic Survey, opposition to defunding under those circumstances was 59-19.
now is the time for the republicans to qualify that lie about their staple "WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT", they have been wrong so long you would think they would have dusted off another golden oldie.
their American people may not be as large as they think all are not hopeless G W Bush said "you can fool some of the people all of the time", that means their are those impervious to the right wing Svengali like red meat toss, and possess sense and sensibility, they know the brood has gone to far, and have no map or paddle or compass, lost in their own space
On what planet is 19 percent of the population the expression of the will of the American people? The GOP has routinely conflated disapproval of or confusion about Obamacare with a desire to defund the law. Now they seem to believe that the American people want to defund the health-care law so much that they are willing to drive the American economy off a cliff. It’s beyond delusional. This is government of, for, and by the fringe.
it's easy to be self indulgent when you feel you have the American people holding you up, even when you are hallucinating and you realize those that hold you up are as insane and hateful as you tried to make them, and the fear kicks in when you realize you were more successful then imagined. who let the dawgs out? the ones who are getting bitten in the butt.
