--- On Tue, 7/21/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] ObamaCare failing
> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 5:13 PM
> <http://www.gallup.com/poll/121814/More-Disapprove-Than-Approve-Obama-Healthcare.aspx>
>
> More Disapprove Than Approve of Obama on Healthcare
> President is rated higher on international than on domestic
> issues
> by Jeffrey M. Jones
>
> PRINCETON, NJ -- As the debate over healthcare reform
> intensifies, the latest USA Today/Gallup poll finds that
> more Americans disapprove (50%) than approve (44%) of the
> way U.S. President Barack Obama is handling healthcare
> policy. There is a tremendous partisan gap in these views,
> with 74% of Democrats but only 11% of Republicans approving.
> Independents are more likely to disapprove than to approve
> of Obama's work on healthcare....
[WS:] That is truly Pythian, indeed, yet another example that polling (by Gallup or otherwise) is mostly gibberish and bullshit. What does "approve the way Obama is handling healthcare policy" mean? That he goes too far or not far enough?
I personally think that he does not go far enough in keeping in line that fucking shithole chatterbox on the Potomac (aka "Congress") - he should pull a Bush on them and swiftboat as "unpatriotic" all those who stand in the way. I also think he does not go far enough in pushing for a single payer/government plan. So that would qualify as "disapproval" of the way Obama pursues health care policy. But that is very different from the disapproval by the Repug vermin calling Obama "socialist" and his health care plan "Waterloo."
PS. Venting: I do miss Stalin and the way he treated the chattering class.
Wojtek