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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (90921)	9/13/2010 11:50:36 AM
From: TideGlider	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224749

Health Care Law 53% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law Monday, September 13, 2010 Email to a Friend ShareThis.Advertisement Fifty-three percent (53%) of U.S. voters now say they at least somewhat favor repeal of the new national health care law, matching the lowest level of opposition since the bill was passed by Congress in March. That includes 42% who Strongly Favor repeal. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 38% of Likely Voters opposes repeal of the health care bill, with 30% who are Strongly Opposed. Last week, 56% favored repeal. A majority has favored repeal of the legislation every single week since late March, and the bill is playing a major role in a number of congressional races across the country. Support for repeal has ranged from a low of 53%, reached once before in July, to a high of 63%. There continues to be a huge divide among Mainstream voters and the Political Class. While 67% of Mainstream voters favor repeal of the health care bill, an overwhelming 88% of the Political Class opposes repeal, including 75% who Strongly Oppose repeal. Thirty-seven percent (37%) of voters say the health care plan will be good for the country. Just over half (51%) say the new plan will be bad for the United States. These findings show little change since March. (Want a free daily e-mail update ? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook. The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on September 10-11, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95%level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology. Seventy-nine percent (79%) of Republicans and 57% of voters not affiliated with either political party favor repeal, while 61% of Democrats are opposed. Platinum Members can review full demographic crosstabs. Seventy-nine percent (79%) of those voters with health insurance rate their own coverage as good or excellent, showing little change since late June. Just four percent (4%) believe their coverage is poor. Among those who have health insurance, 41% say it’s likely they will have to change their insurance because of the new law. Forty-five percent (45%) believe it’s not likely they will have to do so. These findings, too, show little change since late June. Seventy percent (70%) of all voters nationwide regard health care as the most important issue on their minds when it comes to casting a ballot this November. On a list of 10 issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports, health care ranks third just behind the economy and government ethics. A solid majority (68%) of voters prefer a smaller government with fewer services and lower taxes to a more active one that offers more services and higher taxes. That's the second highest finding in Rasmussen Reports surveying on the question since November 2006, exceeded only by a 70% finding in August of last year.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (90921)	9/13/2010 12:14:50 PM
From: TideGlider	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224749

Democrats challenge Nancy Pelosi on taxes 92 CommentsRSSEmailPrint Pelosi is her party's chief advocate for hiking tax rates for folks in the top income brackets. \| AP Photo CloseBy JONATHAN ALLEN \| 9/13/10 4:31 AM EDT Updated: 9/13/10 7:38 AM EDT Red-district Democrats are pressuring Speaker Nancy Pelosi to extend Bush-era income tax rates for all brackets, revealing a high-stakes rift between the party's vulnerable moderates and its safe liberals as the issue increasingly dominates the national debate. POLITICO has obtained a draft of a letter from rank-and-file lawmakers to Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer urging them not to let tax rates rise for Americans at the highest income levels. "We believe in times of economic recovery it makes good sense to maintain things as they are in the short term, to provide families and businesses the certainty required to plan and make sound budget decisions," the House members write in a letter that was being circulated for signatures on Friday and is expected to be delivered today or Tuesday. Reps. Jim Matheson (Utah), Glenn Nye (Virginia), Melissa Bean (Ill.) and Gary Peters (Mich.) drafted the letter and are working to gather support, mostly from the moderate Blue Dog and New Democrat coalitions, for at least a temporary extension of the rates for top income earners as well as those in the lower brackets. Pelosi, who rose to power as a leader of the Progressive Caucus, is her party's chief advocate for hiking tax rates for folks in the top two income brackets while freezing them for couples making $250,000 or less. The situation may well be lose-lose-lose for Democrats. If they raise taxes on higher income Americans, they risk alienating moderate voters and campaign contributors in closely contested races in Republican-leaning districts. If they freeze the rates for everyone, they risk depressing an already deflated liberal base in districts all across the country — including those represented by centrist Democrats. And, if they kick the can down the road with a one- or two-year extension for the highest earners, President Barack Obama will have to wrestle with the issue again heading into his 2012 re-election campaign. But the battle represents a risk for Republicans, too. They can't afford to be pegged as promoting the interests of the wealthy at the cost of the middle class amid a continued economic malaise. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen and Obama have accused Republicans of holding the middle class "hostage" because they want all of the tax rates extended. On Sunday, House Minority Leader John Boehner sought to counter that thrust by telling CBS' Bob Schieffer that he would not vote against an extension of just the set of rates for lower and middle classes — even as he works to include the upper incomes in the final version of legislation. "If the only option I have is to vote for those at 250 and below, of course I'm going to do that. But I'm going to do everything I can to fight to make sure that we extend the current tax rates for all Americans," Boehner said. His remarks touched off a fierce, campaign-style partisan exchange with the White House. Read more: politico.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (90921)	9/13/2010 12:45:34 PM
From: TideGlider	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224749

Opposing view on medical inflation: Repeal and replace Updated 17h 56m ago \| Comments 98 \| Recommend 16 E-mail \| Save \| Print \| USA TODAY OPINION About Editorials/Debate Opinions expressed in USA TODAY's editorials are decided by its Editorial Board, a demographically and ideologically diverse group that is separate from USA TODAY's news staff. Most editorials are accompanied by an opposing view — a unique USA TODAY feature that allows readers to reach conclusions based on both sides of an argument rather than just the Editorial Board's point of view. Share Yahoo! Buzz Add to Mixx Facebook TwitterMore Fark Digg Reddit MySpace StumbleUpon Propeller LinkedInSubscribe myYahoo iGoogleMore Netvibes myAOL By George Pataki This month, with support for ObamaCare continuing to erode, a Democrat-led group is ramping up a multimillion-dollar national ad campaign to rescue the new law. At the same time, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote the health insurers' national association demanding they stop using "misinformation and scare tactics" to blame 2011 premium increases on ObamaCare. OUR VIEW: Don't blame health reform for rising costs of care The reality is that this is all part of an orchestrated, well-financed effort to mislead the American people as to the facts on ObamaCare. It's not surprising. The American people have been terribly misled about this bill since before it was passed. We were told that most Americans would pay less for their health care. Yet the Obama administration's own Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services just reported that health care costs will instead go up by over $1,000 per year by 2019 for a family of four. We were told that ObamaCare would drive down the costs of health care. Yet just this week health insurers asked for premium increases of up to 9% solely because of ObamaCare. We were told — and how many times did the president say this? — that if you were happy with your current coverage, you wouldn't need to change it at all. Yet under rules issued in June, his own administration estimates that 51% of all employees and 66% of workers in small businesses would have their current plan changed within three years as a result of new mandates. We were told that ObamaCare would protect senior citizens. Yet millions of seniors will lose their Medicare Advantage coverage, and millions more, according to the administration's own analysis, will have difficulty accessing health care at all due to a half-trillion dollar cut in Medicare. Higher health care costs. Cuts to seniors' health care. Higher taxes, penalties and fines on employers that keep them from creating the new jobs we need. These are the realities of ObamaCare. The American people don't want government-run health care and are against ObamaCare for good reason. That is why Revere America is working to repeal and replace this law with health care reforms the American people need. Former New York governor George Pataki is chairman of Revere America, a national organization dedicated to repealing and replacing the health care law.