Polls on healthcare vary as much as 20 percent, depending on the question and the pollster.
Obama and the Democratic agenda took a beating in Massachusetts special election, though it is being grudgingly acknowledged. The Washington Post wrote it off to voter anger -- rather than an informed opposition to policy.
Nothing changes with the liberal fourth estate. Liberals in the media and government don't want to admit there is valid opposition to their liberal agenda.
Obama's radioactivity continues, however, and the polls show that too.
Rasmussen Reports measured 61% saying it is time for Congress to drop health care reform and focus on more immediate ways to improve the economy and create jobs.
"Fifty-nine percent (59%) say given the country’s current economic situation, the Obama administration should wait on health care reform until the economy improves. That’s a 10-point increase from March of last year. Thirty-three percent (33%) still say the White House should move forward with health care reform."
Another trend is being sustained though.
"Sixty-one percent (61%) of Democrats say the Obama administration should keep pushing health care reform. Eighty-four percent (84%) of GOP voters and 63% of unaffiliateds think the White House should wait until the economy gets better."
The reality check has not hit Democrats or they refuse as a voting block to discern that has gone wrong with the economy or Congress.
"Americans’ views of health reform generally track with their politics: Most Democrats (64%) support the proposals on Capitol Hill, while an even larger majority of Republicans (76%) oppose them. The middle ground is left to independents, with 41 percent in favor and 43 percent opposed– even as a narrow majority (52%) backs the general idea that it is more important than ever to take on health reform now"
Kaiser's poll asserts that opinions on healthcare change as voters are informed. Fair enough. But with one poll saying 63% want healthcare benched and another poll measuring only 43 percent opposed, it might be more a question of priorities than opposition.
In polling, the wrong question is worth a thousand words of misinformation -- but there is a valid difference between those opposing healthcare and those wanting to put it on hold.
The Washington Post poll found 52 percent of those who voted for Scott Brown said Obama was not a factor.
Do you believe that?
The "wave" first hit Virginia and New Jersey last year, and suburbs like Westchester County outside New York City and Nassau County on Long Island.
To paraphrase Martha Coakley's pollster, the wave has hit Massachusetts. The wave has hit the mainland and Democrats better be ready.
FOXNews reported Scott Brown defeating Martha Coakley 52-47 percent.
"The GOP state senator, once sworn in, will break the Democrats' 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority in Washington. This creates problems for proposed legislation ranging from financial regulatory reform to cap-and-trade, but most immediately Brown's win sends Democrats into a scramble to pass health care reform before he arrives in Washington. Democrats were already weighing options for how to fast-track the bill before polls closed Tuesday."
Mr. Brown goes to Washington and so do the hearts and minds of millions of Tea Party activists nationwide.
The Daily News reported New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney ready to bail on the healthcare bill.
Count Manhattan Rep. Carolyn Maloney among those seeing doom for the health care reform effort if Scott Brown stomps Martha Coakley in Massachusetts, reports Michael Saul.
“If she loses, it’s over,” Maloney said just a little bit ago at an event with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in Queens.
Maloney's Manhattan bastion is as secure as any House district nationwide -- but the back story here might have more to do with a jockeying for leadership.
New York's Congressional delegation has plenty of tea party friendly districts upstate, including two targets on Long Island and a handful of Democrats upstate and throughout the Hudson Valley that could be vulnerable if their leaders in D.C. and Albany don't stop the bleeding.
Pelosi and Reid may not have a choice in four hours. Below is an older photo from March of 2009 showing many of the New York Democrats in happier days.
Leave it to the liberals to blame capitalism for the fall of socialism.
The New York Times lamented that those Democrats fighting for higher taxes and socialized health care have been left to fend for themselves:
Democrats Seem Set To Go It Alone on a Health Bill
The Senate's No. 2 Republican, John Kyl of Arizona, admitted there was little room for negotiation:
“There is no way that Republicans are going to support a trillion-dollar-plus bill.”
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel had mouthus interuptus, blaming the Republican leadership for defying President Obama, trying to frame this squabble along partisan lines -- though Democrats aren't necessarily agreeing with each other.
President Obama's advisers acknowledged Tuesday that they were unprepared for the intraparty rift that occurred over the fate of a proposed public health insurance program, a firestorm that has left the White House searching for a way to reclaim the initiative on the president's top legislative priority.
Administration officials insisted that they have not shied away from their support for a public option to compete with private insurance companies, an idea they said Obama still prefers to see in a final bill.
But at a time when the president had hoped to be selling middle-class voters on how insurance reforms would benefit them, the White House instead finds itself mired in a Democratic Party feud over an issue it never intended to spotlight.
"I don't understand why the left of the left has decided that this is their Waterloo," said a senior White House adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "We've gotten to this point where health care on the left is determined by the breadth of the public option. I don't understand how that has become the measure of whether what we achieve is health-care reform."
Don't understand? The left of the left is Barack Obama's administration.
The Huffington Post had Sally Kohn offer conspiracy theories -- and defended health care reform as workable, inexpensive and lonely.
Insurance companies are spending $1.4 million a day to spread lies and stop reform so they can keep getting rich while giving us lousy health care. So here are FIVE FACTS about health care reform that you need to help spread father and wider than the outrageous lies. You can also download a printable version of this list here to hand out at town hall meetings or other events, nail on your front door, share with family and co-workers or stick in bags at the grocery store. Unfortunately, the truth is often lonely. It needs your help!
Kohn is the senior strategist for Center for Community Change, partnered with FIRM -- whose ACORN-like voter registration drives are aiming to register 12 million illegal immigrants to vote.
"This is a politically savvy move – Latino and New American voters turned out in record numbers for Obama this past November."
Game on?
More like a manifesto to game the system, "How Latinos and Immigrant Voters Decided This Election"
All that's missing is Newt Gingrich holding up a poster entitled, "Contract With America"
The only difference is that Democrats are debating as much among themselves, it seems.
Health care concessions riles left?
It's 1993 all over again and Republicans should be poised to regain lost ground in the 1994 mid-term Congressional elections.
The other difference is that President Barack Obama is starting to come across as a game show host more and more at each public appearance.
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