obama is close to being a lame duck president ..and its not hardly been over a year since he took POWER.
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Saturday, March 20, 2010
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President (
see trends).
Each time the President leads a big push for his health care plan, his job approval ratings suffer. While some portions of the plan are popular, others are not. Most voters oppose the proposed Medicare savings and the taxes involved. As a result,
most voters continue to oppose the legislation. Just
20% of voters believe that most Members of Congress will understand the proposed health care bill before they vote on it.From a political perspective, 50% are
less likely to vote for a Member of Congress who supports the health care reform plan proposed by the President and Congressional Democrats.
With the House vote expected tomorrow (Sunday), Rasmussen Reports will release our latest tracking of support for the health care legislation tomorrow morning rather than waiting until Monday. Thirty-four percent (34%) now say health care reform is the goal the President is most likely to achieve. Voters still say
deficit reduction is the most important and the least likely to be achieved.
On Monday, Rasmussen Reports will begin rolling out new features for measuring the performance of the President and other politicians. Also, next week, we will launch new features that will help track information on a state by state basis. The latest polling data can always be found on the
Rasmussen Reports home page,updated with new data at least six times daily.
The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free
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Overall, 43% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. That also matches the lowest level yet recorded for this President. Fifty-six percent (56%) disapprove.
Check out our review of last week’s key polls to see
“What They Told Us”.
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you progressives are complete morons if you think the issue will be settled today and you will have your free health insurance..LOL
this so called free health insurance is going to cost you millions of more jobs.
Hatch Says It’s ’Nuts’ to Think House Vote Ends Health Issue
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By Nicholas Johnston
March 20 (Bloomberg) -- Republican Senator
Orrin Hatch said Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are “nuts” to think tomorrow’s vote on health-care legislation will resolve the issue.
If the measure passes, Senate Republicans have enough votes on at least two points of order to alter the measure and send it back to the House for a second round of votes, Hatch said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with
Al Hunt,” airing this weekend.
“If those people think they’re only going to vote on this once, they’re nuts,” Hatch said as House Democratic leaders rounded up support before the scheduled vote on President
Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.
The senator from Utah also said the approach Democrats are using to pass the legislation in the House may be unconstitutional because the House and Senate aren’t voting on “exactly the same language.”
The second-ranking Republican on the
Senate Judiciary Committee, Hatch also said Supreme Court Associate Justice
John Paul Stevens, 89, is “likely” to announce he is stepping down next month.
That would allow Obama to name his replacement, and Hatch suggested Solicitor General
Elena Kagan and Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano as possibilities.
‘Pick Another Woman’
“I suspect he’s going to try and pick another woman or somebody from some ethnic group that hasn’t had a chance to be on the court,” Hatch said.
Replacing Stevens would be Obama’s second pick for the nine-member court. Last year he named
Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic justice, to the court to fill the seat vacated by
David Souter.
On the issue of terrorism, Hatch, a member of the Senate intelligence committee, said the U.S. “may very well catch
Osama bin Laden,” the leader of the al-Qaeda network.
“We are knocking off the top 20 one by one,” Hatch said. He criticized Attorney General
Eric Holder for telling lawmakers March 16 that bin Laden isn’t likely to be captured alive.
“I don’t think he should have said that,” Hatch said.
Asked if he knew whether bin Laden’s capture is imminent, Hatch said, “I couldn’t say even if I did.”
College Football
On college sports, Hatch called the
Bowl Championship Series, which oversees the college football national championship game, “a corrupt system” that funnels billions of dollars to “privileged conferences.”
The Department of Justice has told Hatch it is considering whether to investigate the BCS for possible violations of antitrust law.
“It’s a corrupt system and frankly we really do need to change it,” said Hatch, who turns 76 on March 22. “And I understand why they’d try and hold onto it. It’s a gravy train to them that nobody seems to look at or supervise or review.”
Hatch said one of the points of order raised against the health-care legislation in the Senate would be related to the effect on Social Security revenue, and he expects Republicans will have the votes to win on that because it would require 60 votes to overturn.
Less Revenue
A proposed tax on high-end insurance plans would be scaled back under the House measure, which would mean less revenue for the Social Security system, Republicans say. That would violate Senate rules, they say.
Democrats and two independents who usually side with the party have 59 seats in the 100-member body.
The legislation represents the most significant health-care revamp since the Medicare program for the elderly was created in 1965. Under it, Americans would have more access to preventive care, Democrats say. Also, young adults could stay on their parents’ insurance until age 26. The measure has a 10-year $940 billion price tag.
Hatch, who was first elected to his seat in 1976, predicted “outright warfare” in the Senate if Democrats use a process called reconciliation that would allow the chamber to pass the health-care measure with a simple majority.
“That’s going to be something they’re going to have to live with the rest of their lives,” Hatch said.
