It's the economy stupid!

It's the economy stupid!

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/25/opinion/zelizer-gop-risk-spending/index.html?hpt=op_t1

"While Americans have historically been hostile to government, they tend to support specific government services when asked by pollsters. So Washington's overall spending might not be popular as a concept, but Social Security and Medicare are."

A thoughtful electorate might be concerned that Obomacare is a threat to these programs.
Of course pt Barnum said, "you won't go broke underestimating the public" which is a nice way to say the public is dumb.

"When the federal government shut down in 1995-1996 because of a budget standoff between Republicans and President Clinton, the GOP faced a huge backlash when Americans were unable to access basic government services, such as obtaining a passport or visiting the national zoo."

A thoughtful public might listen to Obama's threats of withholding service and consider that he is doing it deliberately and without sufficient cause. They might resent the President's vacation schedule where each family member takes a different wide bodied jet. The democrats have been playing Lucy to the Republican Charlie Brown, and it has always worked before. With Obama's great recession, people may be a little more observant.

Of course the 4th estate has degenerated into a propaganda machine, making thoughtfulness real hard.


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