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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve harris who wrote (99317)	8/9/2011 12:49:09 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I don't know why you blame both sides. Maybe it is me who needs to know the details of what was agreed to. But from what I know, I thought that the agreement had spending cuts including those for Medicare. What it did not have was the raising of revenues through increased taxes. It was very reassuring to learn from Obama yesterday that for the bipartisan commission, he is also ready to agree on cuts to Medicare in exchange for raising taxes as a source for revenue. What we need in America is an Israeli type of revolution that is in progress where the Israelis have decided to sink their political ideologies for the sake of saving their country. And if would take a Jewish type of genocide for Americans so that they start doing what Israelis are doing, then so be it. It looks like 9/11 was not sufficient. Maybe that is what the Israelis can show the US on how to love their country in return for all the dollars we have poured into Israel.

To: steve harris who wrote (99317)	8/9/2011 2:00:29 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

CNN Poll: Time to clean house in Congress? Washington (CNN) – Need more evidence that Americans are extremely angry at Congress? Well, here you go: According to a new national survey, for the first time ever most Americans don't believe their own member of Congress deserves re-election. Read full results ( pdf). And the CNN/ORC International Poll released Tuesday also indicates that while Republicans may have had the upper hand in the recent battle over raising the debt ceiling, they appear to have lost a lot of ground with the public and the party's unfavorable rating is now at an all time high. Only 41 percent of people questioned say the lawmaker in their district in the U.S. House of Representatives deserves to be re-elected - the first time ever in CNN polling that that figure has dropped below 50 percent. Forty-nine percent say their representative doesn't deserve to be re-elected in 2012. And with ten percent unsure, it's the first time that a majority has indicated that they would boot their representative out of office if they had the chance today. "That 41 percent, in the polling world, is an amazing figure. Throughout the past two decades, in good times and bad, Americans have always liked their own member of Congress despite abysmal ratings for Congress in general," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "Now anti-incumbent sentiment is so strong that most Americans are no longer willing to give their own representative the benefit of the doubt. If that holds up, it could be an early warning of an electorate that is angrier than any time in living memory." As for all members of Congress, the poll indicates only a quarter of the public says most members of Congress deserve to be re-elected. A lot of that anger seems directed toward the GOP. According to the survey, favorable views of the Republican party dropped eight points over the past month, to 33 percent. Fifty-nine percent say they have an unfavorable view of the Republican party, an all-time high dating back to 1992 when the question was first asked. The poll indicates that views of the Democratic party, by contrast, have remained fairly steady, with 47 percent saying they have a favorable view of the Democrats and an equal amount saying they hold an unfavorable view. "The Democratic party, which had a favorable rating just a couple of points higher than the GOP in July, now has a 14-point advantage over the Republican party," adds Holland. Edit. Let's see how those numbers look like on a chart: read more..................... politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com