Bad things keep happening to you because you’re a Democrat
Democrats took control of Congress and the Presidency by capitalizing on Republican greed and shortsightedness. Although individual Congressmen have been somewhat popular in their own districts, they seem to have forgotten that Congressional approval ratings have been below 25% for a long time. That means that you’re only about twice as likely to find someone who thinks Congress is going a good job as you are to find someone who believes Obama was born in Kenya. Neither are groups anyone should base broad support on.
You’re only twice as likely to find someone who thinks Congress is going a good job as you are to find someone who believes Obama was born in Kenya.
Most of the Democrats who brought the party a majority in Congress are conservative Democrats who ran on what would have been a Republican platform (had the Republicans had a platform for the past six years). Those Democrats stayed popular as long as they stayed independent. Non-aligned voters can stomach a Republican or a Democrat, but they won’t tolerate a fanatic. So long as the new Democrats maintained their independence from the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barney Frank, their personal approval rating was not mixed in with the 23% approval rating of Congress as a whole. But then came the ONE.
Obama swept into office and, for a time, it seemed popular to be a Democrat. Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid set about to reshape American society. But they had forgotten how they came to power. Sure Obama won a major electoral victory, but he did so by promising, to cut taxes, reduce spending and fix healthcare by reducing costs–all Conservative themes. Democrats in Congress also came to power on conservative themes. They control 60% of the House and most of the difference in both chambers is made up of conservative, or blue dog, Democrats.
But a funny thing happened as Obama, Pelosi and Reid began to enact their very un-conservative agenda, namely:
- The stimulus: a big-government, wasteful, boondoggle for liberal causes, like the Pork for Perverts program, sending tax dollars to self-described perverts (hey, at least it’s “stimulating” something). Obama and Biden actually had the gall a few weeks ago to say the purpose of the stimulus was never to create jobs. Really? What was the purpose then, to photograph people simulating sex acts?;
- Cap & Trade: an energy tax on working families on one hand and a giveaway of tax credits to Pelosi and Henry Waxman’s favorite liberal causes on the other (passed the House, but not the Senate);
- GM and Chrysler: Obama takes over two American giants and nearly simultaneously hands them over to, you guessed it, their unions;
- Cars for Clunkers: a plan to encourage car buying that was supposed to last three months only lasts four days. To add insult to injury, the liberals require perfectly good cars be destroy as a sacrifice to their Global Warming™ gods.
- Healthcare: the more people learn about this, the more it became the straw to break the camel’s back.
All of this in six months. Six months! In a frantic flurry of a liberal child with ADD in a candy store of unlimited government spending. The line between individual Congressman and Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barney Frank became blurred, and then it disappeared altogether. So this is where we find ourselves. An unpopular, anyone-but-a-Republican-Congress decides to take up healthcare reform. So let’s think about that for a second. What does that entail.
75% are happy with their healthcare, and yet Congressman cannot fathom why everyone is so angry at them.
Obama says that 45 million people don’t have healthcare. He lies a lot, but let’s assume, solely for the sake of argument, he’s telling the truth here. There are about 310 million Americans. So even if Obama is right (he never is), that means that only 15% of Americans do not have healthcare. As Michael Ramirez and The American point out, there are some people who chose not to have health insurance. (For people who call themselves “Pro Choice”, Democrats sure love to take choice away from others.) So if we conservatively estimate that half of the uninsured are uninsured by choice, that means that only 7.5% of Americans want health insurance and cannot get it. And that’s only if you believe Obama.
So what about the rest of us; the 92.5% of us with healthcare? Most polls show that between 80% and 90% like their current insurance and would not change it. (Notice that that FoxNews poll showed 91% of respondents said they had health insurance. See, I’m no dummy.) So multiplying the percentage of people who have insurance (92.5%) times the percentage of people who are happy with it (85%), and you get the percentage of the general population who would be annoyed if you changed things (78.6%).
That’s Democrats and Republicans. More than 75% of the people are happy with the healthcare they have, and yet these Congressman cannot seem to fathom why everyone is so angry at them. They have to dream up conspiracies of evil Republicans and mean insurance companies spreading lies. Barbara Boxer, in a psychologists wet dream, fantasizes about “well dressed” protesters out to “hurt our president and change the Congress.“ Nancy Pelosi, another Californian ripe for the shrink’s couch, sees swastikas where there are none. Then again, her memory isn’t what it should be, maybe she’s just constantly confused–so many lies to keep straight. And as Mary Katherine Ham points out, Think Progress and MSNBC are even blaming protests on a (no offense) comically small conservative group with 5 followers on Twitter.
If 75% of people think you’re incompetent and you mess with something that 75% of the people like as it is, you’re going to get shouted at.
So to Nancy, Barbara, Keith Olbermann and all the moonbats out there, let me clue you geniuses in, you started with a 23% approval rating, that means more than 75% of the population thinks Congress is incompetent. Pelosi, Reid and Obama have now twisted so many arms that all Democrats look (and vote) alike. And now the Democrats are messing with a healthcare system that 75% of Americans like the way it is. If 75% of people think you’re incompetent and you mess with something that 75% of the people like as it is, you’re going to get shouted at.
The Democratic response to dissent is telling. Instead of a mature, adult acceptance of a divergent viewpoint, Obama asks Americans to spy on their neighbors. For a man whose sole accomplishment prior to public office is being a community organizer, you would think he would have more respect for protesters, whether organized or not. And yet his press secretary blames all dissent on political enemies like a third-world dictator. Democratic hacks in the media, no doubt soon to join the administration as Linda Douglass did, breathlessly search for their National Guard Memo proving a conspiracy where there is none.
Democrats have come to power, not because of their ideas or their leadership, but because of Republican failings. And as their power crumbles under the weight of their egos and their predictable overreach, they wonder, “why don’t my plans work out? Why do bad things always happen to me?” Bad things don’t happen to you because of Republican conspiracies. Bad things happen to you because you’re a Democrat.
Dan,
Nice job! You have a nice way of laying it all out.
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