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Subscribe to RSSA majority of Americans approve of the budget compromise struck between President Obama, House Republicans, and Senate Democrats Friday that narrowly averted a government shutdown, according to a poll out today.
In a new CNN poll, the first since the deal, 58% say they approve of the budget agreement; 38% disapprove. The poll was conducted over the weekend -- April 9 through 10. (Oddly, however, a much lower number -- 47% -- think the agreement should be made law.) (Here's the full poll.)
An overwhelming majority believes a government shutdown would have either been a major problem or a crisis. A total of 63% said so, with 39% saying it would have been a major problem and 24% saying it would have been a crisis.
More credit President Obama and Democrats in Congress for being responsible for the agreement -- 48% credit Democrats; 35% sided with Republicans.
President Obama gets the best approval in the handling of the budget negotiations -- 54% say they approve, 45% didn’t; Republicans and Democrats were upside down in their approval rating on the matter – both with 44%/54% ratings.
Vast majorities think both sides didn’t give up too much in the negotiations -- 25% say Republicans did, but two-thirds -- 67% -- say they didn’t; Just 18% say Democrats gave up too much, but more than three-quarters -- 76% -- say they didn’t.
President Obama’s approval in the poll is 48% with 50% disapproving; House Speaker John Boehner’s is 41%/44%.
On those controversial policy riders and the health-care overhaul, solid majorities say the government should continue to provide funding -- for Planned Parenthood (65% say so), the EPA (71%), and the health-care law (58%). But a solid majority -- 61% -- also says they oppose using federal funds for abortions.
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It's going to be interesting listening to the 'spin' on THAT one! lol
DUH! Federal FUNDS are not used to pay for abortions - NO MATTER how many times the right repeats they are!
There was a whole lot of 'Ruby Slippers' heels clicking together around here over the weekend! In the end all that was accomplished was them coming across as the un-educated fools that they are! ;o)
Feisty knows it - it was the greatest deal evah!
Let's see, they cut a whopping $39 billion. Problem is they incurred an additional $55 billion last week alone. $223 billion in Fed. $300 billion in March. On so on and so forth.
We all know that if this were a business it'd be bankrupt, and it's owners likely in jail for a operating a ponzi scheme.
Great- ok Feisty, time to raise taxes, right? I know Pietro wants it. So we jack them up on the rich. That'll get us about $300 billion more per year. Yay, but the deficit is over $1.65 trillion. SO where the rest of the money going to come from?
Feisty I know you have no clue, but see some of us do know, and so does Obama. Ploufe was very clear with his concilatory talking points yesterday.
Game over guys, they are now coming for the middle class. You all will now get to share the joy of jacked up tax rates. Now I know you all are totally cool with that - you have been calling for more taxes for a long time. What's that, you only wanted to increase taxes on the rich?
Huh, too bad. So sad. Change you will be forced to believe in.
The reality is that most people do not follow politics like we do here at FR. Most people can't stand the acrimony and partisanship, the divisiveness and simply follow the sound bites.
Obama ended up $78.5 billion from where he wanted to be - where the people think is good. So Obama comes out and takes credit for the historic cuts......why was he asking for $40 billion in new spending then?
Anyway.... what would you expect from Obama ..... standing for prinicples? (lol)
Dose anyone with any common sense (sorry to preclude Feisty and Bev) really think Obama led that?
About the federal funds for abortion - Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion agency in the world.
Do they do mammograms and breats exams, no they do abortions. Do they hand out some condoms and phamplets, yea but they really do abortions - 300,000 a year. BTW - How many referals do they make for adoptions?
You can spout the Hyde and stomp and scream, but they are the world's largest abortion agency. To say only the money in the left pocket doesn't go to abortions is absurd.
Hamas is one of the world's most notorious terrorist groups and sponsors of terrorism. They contribute money for clinics too. Part of the scam.
Sheez....... you guys are easy to fool.
Leave it to the 'drama queen' to be the first one back at clicking his slippers... lmao!
3% of planned parenthood's services are abortions. You totally undermine your own credibility when you say that they do more abortions than cancer screening and birth control.
1 in 5 American women go to Planned Parenthood at some time in their life. I would call that a worthy organization.
One more time. Federal funds Tax payer dollars do not pay for abortions. I know some of you may have been slow in school.
Repeat after me, Federal funds Tax payer dollars do not pay for abortions.
Feisty,
Again? Still can't refute one thing? Hang in there.... maybe some day....... over the rainbow .... it will happen.
And to think - the Scarecrow at least wanted a brain. Mental munchkins don't even seem to care.
Heartlight,
So if abortions are only 3% of the world's largest abortion provider, how much does that work out to - of the 332,279 abortions they provided in 2009? Less than a hundred per, huh ... of course that includes the facilities, doctors, equipment, staffing, utilities, insurance, maintenance, phones, janitorial ......... never had the thing for business huh?
They killed 332, 279 babies in 2009 and referred 977 for adoption.
Shouldn't the name be Planned Abortionhood instead?
Wow, you guys are simple.
Key words for anyone who left their glasses at home:
By law, no...federal....funds....are.....used....for....abortions.
Consider: Women's issues and the EPA were the pretext of this threat of Government shutdown. GOP/TP/Corporations are creating crises in order to pass unpopular policies at federal and state levels across the country.
"You can spout the Hyde and stomp and scream, but they are the world's largest abortion agency"
W e get it.
But- this makes as much sense as saying 'the dirty hippies in California grow most of the pot, so we don't approve of Government money going to that'. IT AIN'T HAPPENING! IF you don't like hippies growing pot, complain about that. Not the government's NON funding of it!
@Spanky: You said
The thing is, its not a business, its the federal government. They operate on debt. Andrew Jackson was the last President to actually pay off the national debt. If they were a business, the managers (Congress) would have been fired for giving away revenue and getting nothing in return (the tax cuts) and we would have fired all of them for sheer stupidity, years and years ago.
Blackhouse,
The way Conservatives look at abortions is that no funds should be provided to any individual or business that can be connected, even indirectly, to abortions. This is how they went after abortion in the Health Care debate. Their premise was that if a woman received any government funds from any source for any reason that woman would not be allowed to purchase any health insurance plan that covered abortion even if she were barren and would never have a need for that part of the plan.
I though Conservatives were for a less intrusive government.
Here is another example of how intrusive they want to be: Part of the logic behind striping state employee’s collective bargaining and trying to break the unions was that state tax payers were paying their union dues. Well since tax payers account for 100% of their pay it could be said that the statement is true. But then you could extend it to say that everything they spend their pay on must be approved by tax payers. Why not tell them what political party they can/cannot contribute to, how about what religion or charity to contribute to - after all it is the tax payer’s money.
Obama certainly has the best of both worlds. He bends to the demands of the Tea Party, and he gets a bump in the ratings. No way will he ever lose his base like the nitwit Libs that post here, they just love the guy! He could renounce Medicare and Social Security, outlaw them both tomorrow, and his little cheerleaders here would just keep on cheering. The man is blessed.
And it took Obama 2+ years to figure this out. Amazing.
Abortion seems to be distasteful to Bob. It is to a lot of us, Bob- you are not alone out here.
Bob- did it ever occur to you that pregnancy prevention education and services might, just might- prevent some of those abortions? Think hard, now.....
So do you righties know who Henry Hyde was? Really, please stop watching the Farce News. Thanks, bob-180 but if you haven't had any children lately you maybe surprised to hear that many OBs refer their patients there if they are considering abortion (which by the way many insurance plans cover). Now put that in your pipe and smoke it!
You're right about that DBO. Not everyone on the left thinks abortion is the right choice. We just think it is a personal choice!
Spanky, Still trying to say that government needs to be run like a business I see. Well it isn't so get over it! So don't get your hopes up your hero Trump is not going to run.
Dlennis, Clolumbus, Ohilo:
You are one of the Ones that left their glasses at home!
I was making the point that abortions are not federally funded for those who like to spin it. Conservatives are showing they are for big intrusive government on a lot of issues.
Blackhouse,
I was trying to show I was in agreement with you.
In addition I was showing an example of their thought process.
Gotcha.
Yep, since the rich don't send their kids to fight and die in the wars .... and since they see fit to offshore American jobs....and duck their taxes in phony offshore companies and accounts.....and pollute our coast lines and skylines and THEN turn around and put 100% of the debt reduction hurt on the Middle Class, Poor and Elderly, and THEN giving the wealthy another Trillion or 2 in tax breaks...then HELL YES
Its called SHARED SACRIFICE... Pay the F%# Up!
deive,
You're right about that DBO. Not everyone on the left thinks abortion is the right choice. We just think it is a personal choice!
Short and sweet, well said, well said.
Can you imagine having to listen to Joanna's babble at a a cocktail party? (chuckle)
Cant wait til O gets a second term and watch these Tea Buggery goofs spontaneously combust from frustration.
Oha My God,
this poll is going to make Joanna jump off a 6inch curbe, i say a 6 inch curbe, because she does not have to guys to jump off a 8 in curbe.
JoAnnaSmith1
Way to go President Obama! Selling out to the Republicans is good for your ratings!
Now, that's just for a measly $38 billion. Just think what a TRILLION will buy you!
Joanna, great your still with us, did you have your lunch or are your posting all over the place like this morning?
Question for ALL:
Did USA ever have any budget crisis before Ronald Reagan was President?
Nope, RR pretty much created the modern art form known as the budget crisis.
Looks like President Obama fell out of the Republican trap once again. No, wait, he was supposed to fall INTO the trap? Drats, foiled again!
No but in 1937 when the Conservatives became scared by the large spending and growing debt their austerity budget caused another recession before we had full recovered from the depression.
We didn’t recover from that recession until after the war and our debt was at 125% of GDP.
By 1980 we were on a path to pay off all of our National Debt by the year 2000 but, thanks to Reagan, by 1990 our debt had doubled to about 70% of GDP.
"Reagan proved deficits don't matter." - Vice President Dick Cheney
The conservatives' austerity budget?
Wasn't FDR President in 1937?
Wasn't it his Administration's budget?
FDR adopted the GOP's budget proposal?
Was he aware of it?
Way to go President Obama! Selling out to the Republicans is good for your ratings!
Now, that's just for a measly $38 billion. Just think what a TRILLION will buy you!
No. And thanks for asking.
why does the media keep bringing up abortion as if it is tied to Planned Parenthood. American knows it is not. It doesn't matter that the spin machine called Fox News sais otherwise. Americans know federal funds aren't used for abortion and don't want them to be. If Boehner needs Democrats to vote this into law, he needs to give some of this last minute stuff up. Let him get his 218 with his Republicans. Pelosi had to do it without any help. Let him do it without any help also. Bet it crumbles because he can't!
AnaBanana---based on the comments I read here, it appears that many Americans are unaware of the Hyde Amendment and that it forbids use of federal funds for abortions. This is one of those conservative positions I just don't get----Planned Parenthood can help with contraception and prevent the need for abortion, which they are against, yet they want to defund Planned Parenthood.
There are even ads screaming lies about it on Facebook.
So much lunacy, so little time.
Conservatives are also after birth control and every other form of controlling and forcing the people to live like they do. the abortion issue is an issue of convenience to the neocons. they know the best way to control people is to make it hard to feed their children. so making more kids helps them. this is why they use people of faith to help push the issue.
This looks just like last December, when the President negotiated the agreement to extend all of the Bush tax cuts...his poll numbers were on the rise for a couple of months, before leveling off.
So, let's see...whenever the the President reaches bipartisan consensus with the GOP, his poll numbers go up.
Hmmm...
Mixed Bag,
Would GOPers now stop avoiding the word 'compromise' ?
What tax cut? My federal taxes were higher than last year for same money. They scammed us by cutting social security 2% and tell us we got a tax cut. Next they will be saying social security is more broke because of that. Do they think we are stupid or what! Wait a minute, I think the majority are.
The Social Security reduction started in 2011. Social Security is not income tax. You will see the savings in your paycheck, not in your income tax bill.
New Wavez-
Compromise, consensus agreement, whatever...it is what it is.
We've got enough problems coming together politically.
I'm not going to get hung up on terminology.
As I said...the "compromise" agreement to extend all of the Bush-era tax cuts gave President Obama's poll numbers a boost.
It is what it is.
And I know you're too smart to think that President Obama doesn't know this, so you also have to know he had every intention of cutting a deal on the shut-down. And he positioned himself perfectly to get the deal HE wanted, rather than the deal proposed by Republicans.
You know I'm not always his biggest fan, but even I have to admire this one.
Anna Molly...
As a conservative, and based on your observations...
I can live with rising poll numbers for President Obama.
If he's serious about addressing the catastrophic consequences of a U.S. sovereign debt crisis...
It's all good, AM.
Ends, not means, Anna Molly.
Why do most First Readers always seem to forget that I'm not a partisan ideologue?
I'm endlessly amused by it, AM.
Honestly...it's a hoot.
:-]
Not a partisan ideologue? LoL Did you notice that you began your post "As a conservative ..."
You ARE endlessly amusing, Bag Boy. ;-)
AM,
You know I'm not always his biggest fan, but even I have to admire this one.
Love is blind. I am sorry, not this time, not by a long shot. He does have his moments, this was not one.
Why do we need planned parenthood? With all the children born outside of marriage, who gets abortions anymore? If you can't figure how you got pregnant, you have greater problems.
We are going to have to buy you books and send you to school. People on the right are pretty thick.
Don't waste any money on it. She probably also thinks that school is also a waste of time.
Democracy Now! had a great interview with Jeffrey Sachs on the budget deal today. Check it out:
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. ... Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem." - President Obama in 2006.
Speaking of "spin" Fiesty, how do you interpret the Presdent, himself, admitting he is a leadership failure? I mean, he IS pressureing Congress to raise the debt ceiling, right?
And President Obama now says he regrets that vote. Apparently, Republicans are also regretting a few of theirs over the past few years, only not the way you seem to think.
http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/1500-The-Republicans-Haven-t-Always-Been-Against-Raising-the-Debt-Ceiling
So, it you want to talk failure of leadership, not to mention hypocrisy, there's way more than enough of that to go around.
Tried to provide a link, but it didn't work. Sorry. So Google Democracy Now! and Jeffrey Sachs. The show is aptly titled "Don't Punish the Poor."
Reality! Reality, the truth and more understandable, common sense is what it is all about. As long as there are those spouting off the extremes and there are those people who shout emotional support for them, then things will continue to be absurd with no progress and with all of the stupid antics continuing.... or even worse as we have seen, with some bazaar individuals and policies being successful. Whenever the people actually get their head screwed on straight, and stop demanding/supporting unworkable and detrimental extremes, then the politicians will come around and have to cooperate (without the people's support to do otherwise) to achieve responsible centrist solutions.
This is hilarious and there is nothing responsible about cutting $39 billion of a $1.7 trillion dollar single year deficit. That is of course not counting the interest on that which doubles it to $3.4 trillion in 20 years. Of course the majority of America loved this toothless $39 billion dollar cut. They don't pay ANY federal income taxes so all they want is a boatload of entitlements protected. So the article is saying the 47% of all households that pay zero federal taxes are happy with next to no cuts. Yep, it saved their almost $4 trillion in services, entitlements and defense they don't pay one nickel for.
This is insanity and the complete meltdown of what was left of the Republic. We have become a country run by an unruly mob of non contributing citizens who could care less if the deficit is $1.7 trillion or $117 trillion. All they know is the higher the deficit the more free stuff. The bankers just belly up to the debt trough for another year of interest on almost $16 trillion after this years deficit is added.
I guess this is also the reason why all the same core group of incumbents were reelected back to Congress after planning, orchestrating and covering up the largest financial meltdown in global history that threw the country into the worst unemployment since 1938. How could these people ever get reelected????...... two words "unfunded entitlements".