Polls are showing the GOP didn’t nake nearly as big a hit from Ryan’s budget plan as the Dems hoped:
Ryan and other Republican House members already have faced hostile questions at town-hall-style meetings in their home districts from seniors and others about the GOP proposal to turn the nation’s health care program for the elderly into what would essentially be a voucher system. The GOP budget blueprint would overhaul Medicare, turn Medicaid into block grants for the states and trim trillions of dollars in spending on discretionary programs. It would lower tax rates for top earners and corporations.
“The bad news for the Democrats is that even after the Ryan budget comes out and has been attacked for a little while, the Republicans have an advantage,” says Joseph White, a political scientist at Case Western Reserve University who studies budget politics and policy.
Republicans have held their political base intact, he says, but the nation is still polarized along partisan lines, and spending cuts are easier when they’re discussed in the abstract. “Everybody can find something they don’t like,” he says, “but that doesn’t mean there’s a majority to cut anything in particular.”
The Dems so hoped there’d be a free-fall.
The ball is in our court. Will our leaders have the nerves and skill to return the volley?
Yet, the libturds keep sending agitators to all Town Hall meetings held by GOP Reps. Quite frankly, I hope that a few of them show up at Erik Paulsen’s next one, so that the security team can (hopefully) dissuade them from being douchebags!