11.16.11
No escape from Gadsden flag-ism
The Civil War 2 gang gets out its colors.
The above is from a Reuters poll allegedly showing more Americans than not want health care repealed than not. The photo, on the other hand, is very obviously a Tea Party rally. And the Tea Party is far from “most Americans.”
The marker — the presence of nausea-provoking multiple Gadsden flags.
Down with tyranny! Down with the Kenyan Muslim! Don’t tread on me! Don’t tread on me! Gahhhh, don’t tread on meeee-meeeee-meeeeee! See my fierce rattlesnake, baby! Do the rattlesnake shake!
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to review President Barack Obama’s healthcare reforms, more Americans want to it repealed than want to keep it, a poll released on Wednesday shows.
A Gallup survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults found that 47 percent favor the repeal of healthcare reform, versus 42 percent who want the law kept in place. Eleven percent had no opinion.
But the survey also showed that 50 percent of Americans believe the federal government has a responsibility to make sure everyone has health coverage, compared with 46 percent who do not.
The results, which have a 4 percentage point margin of error, suggest a sharply divided U.S. public …
When one entire political party, one whole tv network, and almost all broadcast talk radio is devoted to calling for the destruction of health care reform daily, such polling is unremarkable.
Floormaster Squeeze said,
November 16, 2011 at 11:18 am
There is a fallacy of assuming that people who “favor the repeal the healthcare reform” do so because they ally themselves with the right or looney right. There is no contradiction to want the law repealed (I do not personally) and support a greater role of the federal government in healthcare or a lesser role of corporate greed (the laws weakness is its obsessive fawning over the private delivery of healthcare which is definitely a popular perspective but misses the opportunity to actually reform healthcare).
This is nauseatingly true when people talk about favorability polling of “Congress” or “Obama”. There are people who dislike Congress and Obama because they want them to do a better job governing or helping ordinary people. Yet these numbers are always used as a measure of “anti-government” which is an obviously a fallacy when people are simply observing that foxes have been elected to “govern” the hens.