Poll: Most expect Obama to reach out to GOP
Nearly two thirds of Americans - 65 percent - believe that President Obama will "make a sincere effort to work with the Republicans in Congress to find mutually acceptable solutions to the nation's problems," according to a poll from Gallup released today.
Fifty-seven percent of respondents said the same about congressional Democrats, while 48 percent voiced the same confidence in congressional Republicans.
A similar poll from Gallup in 2009, at the beginning of President Obama's first term, found even higher hopes for bipartisanship: 80 percent of respondents in that poll predicted that Mr. Obama would strive to be bipartisan, while 59 percent expected bipartisanship from congressional Democrats and 62 percent expected the same from congressional Republicans.
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Most do not expect Obama to reach out......80% of all Americans want wealth inequity reversed and 90% of democrats want corporations held accountable. All Democrats know that the middle/lower class has paid enough. Gallop poll has been written about for these few years as being biased toward corporate interests.....and is now.
Spoken like a true teabagging republican licking boots of the one percent. Only a deluded mind would equate the wealthy paying their fair share with wealth envy and class resentment.
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Still repeating the same old baseless argument, con? Go teabag yourself.
The wealthy already pay $7 out of every $10 in Federal Revenue received from individual filers with a positive AGI.
This is a fact.
To say they should pay more is to expose yourself as a greedy liberal pig.
My ideas are as follows to reduce the deficit. He should cancel the upcoming Inauguration parades, lunches, and all night balls, and put that money on the deficit. This can allow more time to negotiate, and extend the fiscal cliff deadline. After all, the Inauguration is all about him, and he is being selfish to ask Americans for more tax dollars and he is not giving it.
Another idea is to reduce most of the parties and special events at the White House that are not required. Many events, such as Halloween for kids, and special concerts for the president should be on hold.
Finally, I think the president should stop taking so many unnecessary rides in the motor cade to get hamburgers for himself and his staff. If he is going to lunch, it should not be on taxpayer's hard earned, middle-class money. The wealthy should not have to pay for his unneeded rides in the motorcade as well. He can walk to eat at his own home/job. This will save millions of dollars and put money back to reduce the deficit.
If the president thinks we should reduce military spending and national defense, he needs to start first in his own pockets.
And as VICTORYDEM stated, he clearly has counted himself as those who would be affected by the raised taxes on the wealthy.
The reality is, the lifestyles of the wealthy will not be affected AT ALL by them having to pay a little bit more in taxes. Sorry, I have no sympathy if they complain about not being able to own 12 cars instead of 10, or 5 houses instead of 3. Their standard of living is far alien to most of the middle class who always shoulder the burden of cuts and policies.
To me, what's happening here, is the rich have been so spoiled by their ability to do wrong, accumulate wealth, and not be held accountable. Then, they simply throw their money around to influence the government. These practices are affecting our planet, and our country. And it has to stop.
Obama is not Robin Hood. He's simply an honest president looking to have everyone contribute to turning this country around. God bless him.
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Most people agree the president has tried to compromise with Republicans, it is the Republicans that have refused to compromise with the president.
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Yes, most Americans believe and support the wealth envy, class resentment argument by the Left that the rich should pay more. It is well known that most americans are math challenged and can't see that $7 out of every $10 is MOST of the bill being paid by the rich. You're right, the appalling dearth of intelligence in the American public is depressing.
I'm incorporating and will run all my income through the corporation and write everything off, so raise the taxes. My job's recession proof. Have fun.
No one's ever given me a valid reason for it. It would have to solve some problem, like reduce the national debt, but $70 billion dollars in revenue per year just doesn't do anything. So I am left with wealth envy being the only reason.
400 people in the one percent has more wealth than 140 plus million Americans. They got there in large part due to government laws & policies passed to favor them. The one percent are represented in government by the GOP Republicans.
In fact republicans proudly and loudly advocate and fight for anything to advantage the one percent over ordinary Americans.
BTW you are right America is Under Siege, but by the GOP republicans.
Obama has taken less vacation time than any President in the last 50 years. Clinton was the next most frugal President.