Just in case you haven't gotten your RDA of schadenfreude yet, reading these quotes is fun!
Flashback: Who Wrongly Predicted Health Care Reform's Death
Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard - January 20, 2010
"The health care bill, ObamaCare, is dead with not the slightest prospect of resurrection. Brown ran to be the 41st vote for filibuster and now he is just that. Democrats have talked up clever strategies to pass the bill in the Senate despite Brown, but they won't fly. It's one thing for ObamaCare to be rejected by the American public in poll after poll. But it becomes a matter of considerably greater political magnitude when ObamaCare causes the loss of a Senate race in the blue state of Massachusetts."
It's one thing for ObamaCare to be rejected by the American public in poll after poll.
But it wasn't though, was it? I remember polls saying people were in favor of reform. Overwhelmingly even.
Perhaps that's why they got it wrong?
But it wasn't though, was it? I remember polls saying people were in favor of reform. Overwhelmingly even.
There were some polls that typically show a Republican bias, and those are the polls they were using (when they weren't just pulling statistics out of their asses).
eta: The popularity of healthcare reform varies a lot depending on the wording of the poll.
But it wasn't though, was it? I remember polls saying people were in favor of reform. Overwhelmingly even.
Depends on the question. The polls were against the healthcare reform bill, but generally in favor of individual provisions of the bill.
I remember polls saying people were in favor of reform. Overwhelmingly even.
Technically, people were not in favor of "Obamacare" - polls showed overwhelming support for health care reform in general and overwhelming support of most of the individual provisions in this health care bill, but only if the words "Obama" "Democrat" "Republican" "Congress" etc were left out of the question. As soon as a political label (of any flavor - left or right made no difference) was applied, people hated it.
ION, I think Monday is a good day to die for random WTF-ness:
Weird trading cards from Japanese mayonnaise packaging
eta: More here: Pachi Playing Cards
NPR had a piece this morning asking how much opposition there really is to the healthcare reform.
It's tracking around a 48/45 split. Not that big and some of the unhappiness comes from the left (single payer, abortion concessions). And some of it is in response to the process and less to do with the actual policy changes.
And some of it is in response to the process and less to do with the actual policy changes.
And some people are upset about all the Nazi/socialism stuff.
And some people are upset about all the Nazi/socialism stuff.
It's funny how when you put Nazis and Commies together you don't get a moderate effect.
Ideologies don't regress to the mean.
