The Backlash Is Coming!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704586504574654602781512842.html

That election, which will be held on Tuesday, was widely seen as a formality. Ms. Coakley coasted through the holiday season while the GOP challenger, little-known state Sen. Scott Brown, scrambled for traction.

Those extremes are cropping up as issues in this race. One is giving civilian legal rights to terror suspects, which Ms. Coakley supports.

Another issue is taxes. Mr. Brown has scolded Ms. Coakley for supporting a repeal of the Bush tax cuts, for entertaining the idea of passing a "war tax," and for proclaiming in a recent debate that "we need to get taxes up." Ms. Coakley says she meant that tax revenues, not rates, need to rebound. Nonetheless, Mr. Brown's critique resonates with voters who are smarting from a 25% hike in sales tax last year.

Support for the state's universal health-care law, close to 70% in 2008, is also in free fall; only 32% of state residents told Rasmussen earlier this month that they'd call it a success, with 36% labeling it a failure. The rest were unsure. Massachusetts families pay the country's highest health insurance premiums, with costs soaring at a rate 7% ahead of the national average, according to a recent report by the nonpartisan Commonwealth Fund.

Voting Democrat Causes Cancer

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/voting_democrat_causes_cancer.html

Barack Obama won with 53% of the vote, which means the cancer mortality rate could be reduced by almost 66 -- or from the current U.S. average of 209 to about 143 deaths per 100,000 person-years -- if everyone refused to vote Democrat. That is a reduction of over 30% in cancer deaths. Given that there are over 500,000 cancer deaths in the U.S. every year, over 150,000 cancer deaths could be averted by not voting Democrat.
Also, the 0.594 correlation coefficient indicates that about 35% of cancer mortality is "explained" by voting Democrat. (The amount of explanation is the square of the correlation coefficient.) Thus, not all cancers are caused by voting Democrat.

Harry Reid said, "On average, an American dies from lack of health insurance every ten minutes." If he can say that, then I can say, "On average, an American dies from voting Democrat every 3.5 minutes." Both statements are equally valid.

Democrats Stifle Republican Health Care Plans

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Democrats-stifle-Republican-health-care-plans-8224780-58644807.html

"We knew the president would at some point say something like, 'and the other side has no ideas,' " Price says. So Price and his Republican colleagues brought with them copies of the more than 30 health care reform bills they have proposed in the House this year.

H.R. 77; H.R. 109; H.R. 198; H.R. 270; H.R. 321; H.R. 464; H.R. 502; H.R. 544; H.R. 917; H.R. 1086; H.R. 1118; H.R. 1441; H.R. 1458; H.R. 1468; H.R. 1658; H.R. 1891; H.R. 2520; H.R. 2607; H.R. 2692; H.R. 2784; H.R. 2785; H.R. 2786; H.R. 2787; H.R. 3141; H.R. 3217; H.R. 3218; H.R. 3356; H.R. 3372; H.R. 3400; H.R. 3438; H.R. 3454; and H.R. 3478.

Voters Give GOP First Lead on Healthcare

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/healthcare_poll_gop/2009/08/14/248136.html

• Voters favor the GOP on the issue of healthcare by a margin of 44 percent to 41 percent.
• The GOP holds a six-point lead on the top issue of the economy.
• The GOP holds a three-point lead on the issue of education.
• The GOP holds a four-point lead on the issue of social security.
• The GOP holds a four-point lead on the issue of national security.
• The GOP holds a strong 16-point lead on the issue of taxes.
• The GOP holds a 10-point lead on the issue of abortion.
• The parties are tied on the issue of the war in Iraq.

More People Identify as Independents than Republicans or Democrats

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1229/political-values-core-attitudes-trends-2009

The 2 parties need to get their acts together. Both are out of touch with reality.

GOP Alternative Budget Promotes Growth With Tax Cuts, Spending Freeze

http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/gop_alternative_budget/2009/04/01/198430.html

Nice work, but where were all you Republicans when Bush was spending up a storm? It would have been much easier to get a budget like this passed when you didn't have Obama in the White House.