And the beat goes on….
Obama, Democrats Begin Reaping Political Benefits Of Reform
Only hours after the president signed health care reform legislation into law on Tuesday, the immediate political benefits for the Democratic Party are already coming into focus.
According to a Gallup/USA Today poll conducted the day after health care legislation passed the House of Representatives, 49 percent of the respondents think the passage of reform is a “good thing,” compared to the 40 percent who think it is bad. The numbers are a welcome relief for a party and a presidency that had been bleeding popular support over the course of the past six months.
We’ll see how many other polls confirm THIS result. I’m guessing they mostly won’t.
I expect to see each and every day a mainstream media attempt to do damage control for Democrats.
I don’t think it will work.
On another front, did you know that newspaper advertising revenue has dropped by over 25% this year? That’s because somebody has to be reading it for advertisers to bother with it.
Most people who buy newspapers are using them to paper-train puppies and start fires. Which is about right, I think.
In the meantime, I conclude that mainstream newspapers are so in favor of Obama-care because most of their employees are in justifiable fear of losing their jobs, and they hope it will give them some help. Maybe some of them can be part of the 16,000 new IRS workers that will be required to enforce the mandatory health insurance enrollment, administer fines to scofflaws who don’t buy health coverage, etc.
There are going to be a lot of scofflaws, once the young folk figure out that the fine is cheaper than the insurance coverage, and that they’re going to get health care regardless.
March 25th, 2010 5:00 pm
I loved Johnny Carsons line about using newspapers to train his puppy. He said he grabbed the Enquirer and unfolded it. He placed it in the corner spread out for a large target – and yet his puppy refused. He considered it redundant!