In a recent interview, presidential advisor David Axlerod expressed his dismay that, even as the White House publicity machine kicked into high gear to push for passage of the massive health care system overall, the public support for the plan had barely improved.

Last November, public opinion of the Democratic health care plan ran against it by about a two–to–one margin. This week, after months of promotion, the numbers haven’t changed much.
It’s a little surprising to me that the Obama people – smart people, really – don’t understand how public opinion works. Simply put: they don’t understand the American people.

Americans are naturally optimistic – they give new ideas a chance – which is why Barack Obama won the 2008 election in the first place. They were tired of the other guys and wanted to go in another direction. They were even willing to listen to the health care proposals, and some ideas were appealing, although the details were horrific. It has become clear that the health care bill was a stalking horse for a dizzying array of new government regulations.

Solidified public opinion moves very slowly

Democrats can’t answer the question ultimate healthcare question: Why do we have to destroy the best health care system in the world and change the way every American interacts with doctors and hospitals just to help the precious few who don’t have health insurance but want it?

Failure to address this question has caused America to decide – last fall – that Democrats don’t have a good answer. Once they came to that conclusion, the game was over. Opinion solidified, and has been solidly against this plan ever since. Once solidified, public opinion almost never changes. Democrats may still pass a big health care bill, but the public will never accept it, and never support it.

Americans have little tolerance for liars

This speaks to another enduring value that Americans hold particularly dear – truth. Many Americans believed Obama in 2008 when he talked about hope and change, and they gave him the benefit of the doubt. And goodness was there doubt. Here was a man who had never held an executive position in his life, running for the top executive position on Earth. There were doubts raised about his associations with radicals – you know the list by now – but the majority of voters rolled the dice and believed him when he said he wanted a better America. They conferred onto Barack Obama the quality of leadership for which they themselves hungered.

But there was an element of deceit in his campaign – there is an element of deceit in almost every political campaign, so that is no surprise, but when it became obvious his intentions were not to improve on an already great country but rather to make wholesale changes, Americans felt they had been lied to. They turned on Obama, and his job approval rating tanked. They turned more on the Democratic Congress, whose job approval ratings are now near historic lows and barely hovering above single digits.

You can dare to lie to the American people and hope to get away with it. But if they find out, you are toast. At that point, you do have recourse – an apology and a reversal of your path to become what they always thought you would be. Tiger Woods is now following that recourse. He is now trying to live a truthful life he had privately betrayed for years. He will make a substantial, but not full, recovery. Obama and the Democrats have not followed that path so far. They have stiffened their spines, taken defiant stances, and are poised to push through their reforms, public opinion be damned.

They may win this health care reform battle, but they will ultimately lose the war. That is the way of American public opinion.

Standing up and fighting makes us worthy of being an American. What did you do yesterday to live up to this goal? What will you do today and tomorrow?

Fritz Wenzel is President of Wenzel Strategies, a public opinion research and communications firm based in Columbus, Ohio. Wenzel Strategies conducts polling and analysis that matches or exceeds industry standards followed by such firms as Rasmussen Reports, Zogby International, and the Gallup Organization. Fritz Wenzel is an award–winning journalist with 15 years experience in the research industry.

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at – 18

This day in history March 12
1994: The Church of England ordained women as priests for the first time in its history. Membership in the Church of England has fallen steadily ever since.

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This showdown on Obamacare is a war between those who fight to enslave us under Marxism and genuine Americans who want to live in freedom.

Vladimir Lenin, an expert on Marxism, thinks so. A recent Communist Workers Party publication described Lenin’s position on the “value” of socialized healthcare as “… the keystone to the arch of the socialist state.”

American socialists have been fighting to enslave us since at least 1927 when socialist skunk Norman Thomas predicted America wouldn’t vote for socialism, but would adopt every aspect of socialism if it were presented under the banner of liberalism.

Obama’s health care scheme is presented as a plan to “help” the average American. Isn’t it being cloaked as humanitarianism, a way to “cover everybody and spread the wealth?”

Rank and file Democrats are the enemy of American freedoms

A February Gallup poll revealed that more than one of three (36%) of those living among us are too stupid to recognize the dangers of socialism and actually favor it. Not surprisingly 53% of Democrats have a favorable view of socialism.

This percentage of registered Democrats holds positive views of these elements of our national life: Capitalism just 53%; Big Business just 46%.

A very instructive 67% of registered Democrats had a positive view of the Federal government.

These are very scary numbers. They make it clear we have to keep fighting everybody and anybody in our way, regardless of party, to drive a stake through the heart of this disastrous bill.

If they win we lose. This is a totally zero sum contest.

If they win they will steal each day in the future lives our children and when the last piggy bank is smashed and the pennies are counted, they will tax us until we have nothing left to give.

The future of America is on the line. If we fail to act we will die as a people and not be worthy of calling ourselves Americans.

Sources:

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/03/vladimir-lenin-socialized-medicine-is-the-keystone-to-the-arch-of-the-socialist-state/

http://www.gallup.com/poll/125645/socialism-viewed-positively-americans.aspx

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at – 21

This day in history March 11
2004: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid Spain killed 191 people and chasing the Spanish out of Iraq thereby providing Islamist terrorists with a big victory.

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This has got to be child abuse. A special education student running the schools?

Detroit school board president Otis Mathis can’t write in English. The man charged with educating the last 90,000 school kids left in the disappearing city can’t express himself in a simple Email.

Need proof?

Grab a red pencil and read this recent Email written by Mr. Mathis.
“If you saw Sunday’s Free Press that shown Robert Bobb the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, move Mark Twain to Boynton which have three times the number seats then students and was one of the reason’s he gave for closing school to many empty seats.”

His acknowledgement of difficulty composing a clearly written English paragraph is an understatement.

“[H]is communication issues.”

Mathis who was placed in a special education program in the fourth grade is a great example of Detroit’s refusal to recognize reality. Last January he was elected president of the school board by a margin of 10 to 1 over a University of Michigan academic officer.

That his graduation from Wayne State University was held up for TEN years because he couldn’t pass the required English proficiency test and had a 1.8 gpa in high school meant nothing. Mathis shouldn’t be able to teach a third grade class, let alone become the president of an entire school system. This outrage wouldn’t be tolerated anywhere else in America.

Damned either way

His colleagues call Mathis a good guy whose leadership skills are more important than his lack of qualifications. Nevertheless, herein lays the problem of trying to fix the Detroit school system. Anyone bright enough to be able to do the job is too bright to take the job. Since somebody – anybody- must be in the slot, for Detroit a former special education student will do.

Another Email
“Do DPS control the Foundation or outside group? If an outside group control the foundation, then what is DPS Board row with selection of is director? Our we mixing DPS and None DPS row’s, and who is the watch dog?”

When asked if he can read, a question no one would even think of asking the head of any other American school system, Mathis answered, “Yes, I can read. I’m capable of reading a lot of information and regurgitation…”

Today Detroit’s former City Council President Monica Conyers, wife of Congressman John Conyers, will be sentenced in federal court on her conviction for selling her vote on a city contract agreement. It’s the way things are done in Detroit. It’s the reason Detroit will not survive no matter how much the media Democrats and other liberals try to make believe it will.

What do you plan to do to save America from Obama’s Marxists?

Source:

http://www.detnews.com/article/20100304/OPINION03/3040437/

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at – 19

This day in history March 10
1804: The Louisiana Purchase which formally transferred the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States is signed and executed at a ceremony in St. Louis.

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The wild uncontrolled extremes of Rahm Emanuel’s efforts to ram through Obama’s Marxist health care bill seem to have no limits. Threatening Eric Massa even while both men where nude in a House gym shower room wasn’t too much for the maniacal Emanuel.
Common sense dictates that Congress would not have to be threatened to vote for a bill their constituents loved and wanted.

Massa of course is an unprincipled moron who originally voted No because the bill wasn’t Leftist enough, but in the world of real America this bill is recognized as the dung pile it is.

Here’s a refresher on what stinks about it, and why we have to fight it with all our strength.

A government committee will decide what treatments we receive. P30 P42

Our healthcare will be rationed because Americans now privately insured will be forced into Obama’s scheme. P29 P85

Illegals will receive coverage and we will pay for them.P50 P170

Obama will have access to ALL of our financial records. P58 P59

Doctors pay will be dictated regardless of specialty. Brain surgeons and dermatologists will get the same paycheck. P127 P241

Forced governmental home visits P568

Rationing of care for certain cancers P272

Nazi style eugenics -rationing of medical services for “special needs” Americans P345

Obama’s health care commissars will decide when we have lived long enough. P429

Obama will have his government stooge doctors decide what our end of life care will be and how much care we will receive. P430

“Non-profit” Community-Based Home Medical Services ( think skunks like ACORN) will provide us with medical care. P469

Obama will be sitting at our kitchen tables and insert himself into our marriages because this bill will fund Marriage and Family therapy. P489

Mentally illness treatments will be rationed. P494 through 498.

The Chicago way

How many other Democrats Rahm Emanuel can threaten into a yes vote remains to be seen, but remember the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the necessary legislation at 9:10 PM on July 31, 2009 during the very last hours of the House session before its summer recess.

That vote came just days after Arkansas Democrat Mike Ross, the Blue Dog leader, flatly stated he would not ask his members to vote for the package without changes. He boasted his Blue Dogs were a majority of the Committee and therefore the whole thing would die when his Committee voted on it if there were no changes. There were no changes but they voted for it anyway. If those Blue Dogs had been given something or promised something such facts would have leaked out long ago. It’s obvious Ross and his members were threatened to force them to change their vote.

This is what our American freedoms have deteriorated to under Barack Obama and his Chicago thugs. This is why we have to take away his power by kicking out Reid and Pelosi’s robots in November.

It’s time to stand and be counted because the life of our country is on the line. It’s time to be worthy of the American freedoms those before us fought for and died for.

Sources:

http://www.twoorthree.net/2009/12/whats-wrong-with-the-senate-health-care-bill-omfg.html

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/health-care/2009/07/

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at – 19

This day in history March 9
1989: A Machinists union strike forces financially troubled Eastern Air Lines into bankruptcy which eventually killed it. All of the strikers lost their job.

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The contrast between Texas and California is so stark as to question the very possibility of the Golden State ever returning to balanced budget prosperity.

Liberal strongholds in San Francisco and Los Angeles have provided Democrats with the Legislative punch to gain a strangle hold on California’s governmental operations.

The far Left nature of both of these cities has led to the State’s complete capitulation to its public employees unions. The incestuous relationship these unions have with Sacramento Democrats has produced a “taxpayer be damned” attitude that will make curbing the costs of governing California virtually impossible.

Trading taxpayers for tax burners

The Census Bureau estimates that since 2000 more than 1.5 million taxpaying Californians have run away. This loss coupled with the coinciding arrival of a like number of tax money burning immigrants (legal and illegal) means California is headed toward becoming the first failed American state.

Texas: low taxes growing prosperity

Texas on the other hand has low taxes no state income tax and a growing economy to show for it.

Texas calls it’s Legislature together for just one 90 day session every two years. It’s almost nonexistent public employee union members work FOR the State of Texas. The State of Texas does NOT work for them.

Texans get genuine service from their civil servants. While its teachers are paid less than California’s teachers, Texas students score higher on standardized tests.

People across the country are moving into Texas yet its unemployment rate is lower than the national average. California’s unemployment is substantially higher.

Because of its pro-business atmosphere so many people will have moved into Texas that it’s on track to gain four new Congressional Districts all of which will likely be new Republican seats.

Texas is thriving; California is dying: Liberalism kills conservatism builds.

The coming showdown

November’s elections will pit hard core Leftists who want to model America on California against conservatives who want to spread the Texas formula across the country.

The California experiment is over. It was a crashing failure. Letting unions and Marxists run a state, especially the size of California has proved not only disastrous to Californians but a grave danger to the rest of us. When it goes under, California will pull large portions of the national economy with it.

When you vote for your next Congressman remember Liberals did this to us. Their deadly policies have destroyed state and city economies and made failure the only outcome possible for California. Remember who brought us to this point.

Doing nothing is not an option. Stand on your feet and fight or kneel on your knees and serve Obama. It’s your decision.

Be worthy of all the sacrifices made for your freedoms. The time for standing up is coming soon.

Sources:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Low-tax-Texas-beats-big-government-California-86681467.html

http://www.newser.com/story/82605/top-cities-beating-the-recession.html

http://www.newgeography.com/content/001448-the-failed-state-california-the-changing-landscape-america

This day in history March 8
1917 – The Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at –17

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