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Gallup: SHUT UP ABOUT HEALTHCARE, DEMOCRATS.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 13th, 2010 at 02:00 PM  | 

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I paraphrase.

Unemployment now stands alone as the top issue in Gallup’s latest update on the most important problem facing the country. Thirty-one percent of Americans mention jobs or unemployment, significantly more than say the economy in general (24%), healthcare (20%), or dissatisfaction with government (10%).

Via Hot Air.  If you’re wondering why the current ruling party is so determined to immolate its reputation, popular support, and future ability to pursue its policy goals on a Quixotic quest that the voting public doesn’t even support… well, it’s because the Democratic party at this point doesn’t know what else to do.  They’ve told themselves so many times that they are the champions of the public good – and that members of the opposing party are agents of Satan – that they are incapable of really understanding that a majority of the population would rather see some – any! – movement on jobs and the economy.  The Democratic leadership truly believe that their map has become the territory.  The Democratic rank-and-file (especially the ones in at-risk districts, which I am defining as “D+4 and better” these days) are not as subject to that particular delusion; which is why the head of the DCCC is telling them to shut up and hide until the vote is over.  Mind you, that’s to protect the leadership from the consequences of a no vote, not to protect the rank-and-file from the consequences of a yes vote.

Nothing will protect the rank-and-file from the consequences of a yes vote.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • tngal

    Play fair. You remember all those tens of thousands of jobs we’re getting from the weatherization program. And the stimulus package which saved or created (what are they spouting now) 300,000 jobs? Then there’s the census. Never mind they’re short lived, that’s huge hiring. And Pelosi promises when Obamacare gets through there will be massive numbers added to the rolls. Plus last month’s unemployment numbers would’ve shrivelled to nothing if it weren’t for that pesky blizzard.

    They understand we’re worried about jobs, but they’re handling it just fine, and tell us every chance they get. We’re just not listening.

  • tngal

    Play fair. You remember all those tens of thousands of jobs we’re getting from the weatherization program. And the stimulus package which saved or created (what are they spouting now) 300,000 jobs? Then there’s the census. Never mind they’re short lived, that’s huge hiring. And Pelosi promises when Obamacare gets through there will be massive numbers added to the rolls. Plus last month’s unemployment numbers would’ve shrivelled to nothing if it weren’t for that pesky blizzard.

    They understand we’re worried about jobs, but they’re handling it just fine, and tell us every chance they get. We’re just not listening.

  • 1stRichard

    If it is against ones nature to commit suicide, there has to be some missing part, this would be their soft spot, and they are not going to expose it. We know it is reelection suicide as it stands now, so what could they do to turn the elections in their favor. Brown?s win in MA exposed the fact that unions leaders may say one thing and members vote the other way. Not unless there is some big incentive or they really that ignorant, it seems unions is a possibility. They could overload the system with some sort of universal voter registration but that would only work if the election were to be close. What if they were able to make jobs suddenly appear like that saved or created, no that can?t be it. These socialist Democrats must be up to something, they can?t be that stupid, they must have some sort of dirty trick, what is it?.

  • msctex

    This Health Care fiasco evokes the end of the Indiana Jones Holy Grail movie, when the blond collaborator had the Grail in her reach. If you accept that Reason, common sense, ethics and morality are out the window with regard to the issue of Health Care, there is at least a predictable pattern to the madness. They have moved beyond even the feasible, as evidenced by the absurdity of this “Slaughter Rule” gibberish, and are now in the realm of whatever they can convince themselves could conceivably be made to fly. Never mind the Constitution, law, rules, past precedent, or anything we take for granted: this is nothing less than religious mania applied to politics, and they will try anything they can convince themselves might be forced to succeed. Never mind the contradictions, legal holes, obvious Constitutional issues — they are RIGHT, and they must have their way.

    Not exactly a recipe for success, if you think about it.

  • http://thesandsinstitute.org Vassar Bushmills

    Health care seems to be the end game

  • mwmom

    that if no one has a job, there won’t be anyone able to pay for heath care, and no money coming in from taxes.

    I do not understand how jobs isn’t the number one priority for people who truly care about our country.

  • nancylee

    of course. If they cared about the country the first priority would be jobs.

    Their first priority is their ideology. Jobs come in a very poor second, if that.

  • http://thesandsinstitute.org Vassar Bushmills

    Seriously. Start thinking of the alternative ideas they have in mind. They are not good.

  • southernilpat

    The more people dependent on government for everything, the better in their eyes. Independent, self sufficient, thinking voters are a nightmare for liberals/progressives/whatever they are calling themselves today. The ideal society in a liberal’s eyes is for the vast majority of the population to be destitute with just enough “rich” people to soak for the taxes necessary to buy off the votes of the majority with entitlements. Let the rich protest and vote conservative – there simply wouldn’t be enough of them to matter politically. Liberals bank on the fact that too many people would rather be poor but taken care of, than face the risks involved with possibly bettering themselves.

    This insistence on proceeding with the health care fiasco rather than focusing on what their constituents really want should be a wake up call to the oblivious of what is really going on . I doubt it, though. Far too many have been convinced that they are incapable of taking care of themselves.