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Poll Concludes 84% Disapprove of Tea Party-led House After Debt Ceiling Deal

The new CNN poll that was conducted just after the debt-ceiling agreement was announced didn’t fare too well for the Tea Party-led House.

 

While President Obama’s results came in with a 2% higher disapproval rating, now 52%, the House of Representatives came in with an 84% disapproval. The President’s level of public support is presently more than three times that of Congress.


Congress’ approval rating.

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job?

Approve: 14%

Disapprove: 84

 

The poll asks, “And as you may know, the agreement does not include any tax increases for business or higher- income Americans. Regardless of how you feel about the overall agreement, do you approve or disapprove of the fact that the debt ceiling agreement does not include tax increases for those groups?”

 

 

 Approve 40%

Disapprove 60%

No opinion 1%

 

While no one  in Washington fared too well in the poll, it’s clear from this one that Americans are sick of the Tea Party-led House and their governing counterparts. Check this out and it’s from the Drudge Report (I kid you not):

From Florida to Ohio, Wisconsin to Arizona, the honeymoon has ended very quickly and very badly for the Republican governors who rode into their respective state capitols on the tea party electoral tide, according to polls. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and Florida Gov. Rick Scott have dropped 25 percent and 20 percent, respectively.

 

Most of those polled were not pleased with the debt ceiling ‘deal’ — the majority wanted new revenues, aka: ending the the Bush tax cuts.  If the Bush tax cuts afforded to the wealthy are this fantastic deal for the economy, why are Republicans trying so hard to rename it the ‘Obama tax cuts’? Sure, the President extended them, but only after unemployment and repealing DADT was held hostage. You know, like they just did again with the economy.

 

A sharp focus remains on Wisconsin and their embattled Governor hasn’t fared too well in the polls either.

 

 

RIP Tea Party.


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21 comments

By Anomaly – August 3, 2011

  • james g

    Total Bulls*it article and headline…… The only politicians I will ever vote for again are fiscally conservative ones that believe in long term financial stability and living at or below your tax revenue MEANS… Most dems and some repubs are just after votes and are doing nothing constructive to lower spending to reduce deficits……. People are realizing that the politicians are pissing away their tax payments on idiotic social welfare programs ( like the post office, and many other agencies that are as bloated as the average white trash kid from wherever, usa ) and want it stopped. It will take a generation of sacrafice to fix this, and the current one is -as usual- trying to push it off on the next generation….its an ugly version of musical chairs thats about to blow up…..

  • Fmisch

    What I would like to know is how many of these people actually expect to act on their disapproval when election time comes. That would be some good research: ask who plans or expects to act in some way, ask again every 4-6 months and see how that changes and then ask immediately after the election to see how the current disaffection is increased or decreased in the interim.

  • Mike

    Just a couple of things:

    The poll asked respondents about their opinion of Congress as a whole, not of the “Tea Party-led House,” so the the headline is grossly misleading, at best.

    The second graf of the story is just flat wrong, as, again, the actual poll question asked about Congress, not the House.

    The attempt to bolster it with the tangentially related Drudge Report quote was pretty transparent, and something I’d expect from Newsmax or one of its counterparts.

    To the writer: Don’t slip into using those same tactics. They erode your legitimacy and allow you to be lumped in with the fringe sites on the other side.

  • http://www.gamina.org VicC

    Can the issue of corruption of where we spend the $ be stopped first? Like can we stop some of the wars. We are still pushing to have soldiers in Iraq next year (and we had no reason to go there).
    Stop the wars, then raise the taxes.

  • http://www.boomerback-beat.com Pam

    The approval ratings for the congress have been in the toilet for a long time. Where the tea party went wrong was in allowing themselves to be co-opted by Republican candidates. I think the sentiment that initiated the movement is still alive and well.

    Taxes will be raised at some point. Taxing just the rich won’t be enough though, we will see VAT which is a hidden tax that everyone will pay. The big problem is spending. They are out of control and the amount of spending has reached such levels as to become abstract. There is no way to pay off our debt.

    The bigger problem is that our money has absolutely no value outside of being the world standard. When we are downgraded, and I believe that is immenent, we are in danger of losing that standing. Then all of us will be left with worthless paper and digitized air in the bank.

  • Shiva

    and even worse they are holding the FAA employees hostage until certain cuts are made. Speaker Boehner said there’ll be no resolution to the situation until the cuts are made. If this country does not vote these people out in 2012 it will sound a death knell for America. They are forcing the stock market down as well

    None of these cuts would be necessary if the American corporations were hired American people. We need to get Democrats in office to start taxing offshore profits and to get people back to work

    • Shiva

      @Shiva, by the way, if you want to know how stupid the tea party is, 44% of the people in the tea party are on Medicare. I want to see a protest march by these 44% asking that their Medicare be slashed

  • Driverside

    The Bush Jr. tax cuts were afforded by the budget surplus left by the Clinton admin. Georgie said he was “giving the money back to the people” (but just the rich people!). I’m sure there were no conditions that any jobs be created at that time, or ever, just handing out ‘surplus’ tax revenue to millionaires.

    That surplus disappeared in Bush’s first term, it’s long gone, and so should be the tax cuts. Tax cuts aren’t creating jobs, they’re just draining our public treasuries into the bank accounts of the wealthy few. Teapublicans should be very happy with their reps. in congress. Just not enough cuts to food stamps, medicare/caid, welfare, and social security.

    I actually believe righties would accept tax increases if they could just abolish the desperately needed safety net of ‘entitlements’.

    • MrGclef

      @Driverside, I think it’s hilarious when people point out that Bush’s tax cuts were for “the rich people!”. I am a teacher with a master’s degree and 17 years’ experience and I make $52,000/year, but under our esteemed president’s definition, I’m “wealthy” because one of my “benefits” is that 80% of my health costs is paid for. Without these tax cuts for “the rich people!”, I’d lose the $1,000 tax credit for each of my two children, just for starters. Plus, there’s way too much talk about eliminating the tax deduction for mortgage interest for me to feel comfortable with. Also, Obama keeps preaching about the payroll tax reduction, when since Jan 1, 2011, I’ve noticed that $27 MORE is being taken out of my paycheck. Stop drinking the kool-aid and check it out yourself.

      • Driverside

        @MrGclef, The general consensus on ‘rich’ these days is $250K/year, so, no, you’re not rich, unless you also have large capital assets. I wouldn’t vote to raise taxes on anyone in your income range, and I don’t believe democrats are trying to do that. Some facts maybe?

        Sounds like you’re supporting a family of four on your income. I supported myself last year on $11,000, so I understand neither of us are living the life of Riley. You have health care, I have the emergency room. Employer provided health insurance is becoming a rarity. Universal health care is just common sense, not a hand out.

        I have great respect for teachers and the teaching profession. I believe strongly in our public school system, and that teachers are generally underpaid. Tea party republicans are enemies of public schools, public school teachers and professors, and all unions. Are you really going to vote for them?

  • Sally

    So will the over-reaching stop, or are we going to take to the streets and demand that the GOP stop catering to businesses and Fox Noise and listen to the people? Finally. Meanwhile, sister sarah (who doesn’t even deserve capital letters any more) can go suck her thumb and figure out how she can get paid to appear on the new TLC show about her supposed hairdresser. Maybe she can get an actual hairdo instead of those atrocious wigs she wears.

    • OMGawd

      @Sally, I’ve been curious as to whether the bagger house can be recalled. That would be one way to deter them from trying to ruin this country.

      • Sally

        @OMGawd,

        I’ve wondered about the ‘pledge’ they signed…isn’t that illegal? They took an oath to represent their constituents and the follow the Constitution, they they signed an oath to never, ever raise taxes. That cannot be kosher…I know they have no moral code, but that’s just wrong.

        • OMGawd

          @Sally, Even aside from that bringing this country to its knees has GOT to be unconstitutional. I’m not Constitutional whiz like Obama is but come on!

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