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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Ken Blackwell :: Townhall.com Columnist
Truth and Advocates for Life Triumph!
by Ken Blackwell
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Will Congress pass Obamacare by the end of the year?

An independent polling company is out with a new survey with stunning news: Family Research Council’s ad warning of President Obama’s government takeover of health care is being highly effective.

HCD Research used its MediaCurves.com website to poll Americans’ ideas about ObamaCare. FRC’s ads criticize the President’s plan for two fatal flaws: it will force Americans to pay for abortion-on-demand and it will lead to rationed health care for all Americans.

Sixty-four percent of Democrats found the ad effective. Eighty-one percent of Republicans and 71 percent of Independents agreed. These are extraordinary numbers.

Culture of Corruption by Michelle Malkin FREE

The Washington Post reports that the Obama administration has been caught “by surprise” by the path of the debate on health care. They hadn’t anticipated that the Left of their party would be so adamant about holding onto a “public option” as part of the President’s plan.

The Obama Administration tries to say that no one provision in the health care takeover is a “deal breaker.” But the Obama team knows that publicly promoting free abortion could be a deal breaker, so they try to convince us that abortion is not even in the plan. Family Research Council’s Tom McClusky has shown seven reasons why abortion is in the plan and ten reasons why health care rationing is also in the plan.

What this poll shows is that federally-funded abortion is not a wedge issue, as Leftists contend, not a “distraction,” as President Obama maintains. It is vitally important. Opposition to federally-funded abortion is a bridge issue, bringing together Americans of all parties and ethnic and religious backgrounds.

It also shows that President Obama’s irrational idea that you can “reduce” the tragic toll of abortion by making abortion free is catching up with him. Americans are rightly skeptical that this makes any sense.

For thousands of years, the first rule of medicine was this: Above all, do no harm. Continued...
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Mr. Blackwell, a contributing editor at Townhall.com, is a senior fellow at the Family Research Council and American Civil Rights Union.
 
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Reply # 1
Date: Aug 21, 2009 - 12:17 PM EST
9:04 AM, ET, Georgia crackers
Again, Oryuckle flails the illegal immigrants. For nothing.

Was it not I-- moi, who warned this clown a hundred times HE and his fringe white supremacists would enable Obama in the end, squawking about John McCain, slinging their racist mud every day in our Toon Hall?

Yeah; well, he did it. By alienating all our LEGAL Hispanic voters with that incessant hate speech, he got us a Democrat president; as I predicted. Now he screams like the old panther shitting razor blades, over a soon-to-arrive voting bloc for the Democrat party which HE and his fringe goons on our right made inevitable.

Yet, the voters he calls "illegal immigrants" aren't going to remain illegal. They'll vote for Democrats LEGALLY. With Obama's blessing. Who did Oryuckle think would give them sure-fire amnesty?

A Republican president could at least have gleaned some of the large Latino vote. But the squawkers wouldn't have "McShamnesty," they decided on Obama or nothing. Already their oracle-stupidity made placing Obama's liberal, activist Supreme Court Justice on our Court easy!

--FOR LIFE!

With a GOP president and a few more legislators in Congress we might have had a Justice on the right instead of Sotomayor, (Oracle's sweetheart.)Now he rants about ILLEGALS, after it's all over! What a toilet bowl is our friend Oryuckle!
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Reply # 2
Date: Aug 20, 2009 - 10:19 PM EST
Zogby: Down to 45%
I remember back in the day when “Zogby” used to be a curse word among conservative bloggers. Change:

Asked whether they approve or disapprove of the president’s job performance, just 45.3 percent of likely voters say they approve. That compares with 50.5 percent who disapprove of the job Obama is doing.

The results are a strong indication that contentious national debate over healthcare reform has taken a major toll on the president’s popularity…

Of greatest concern to Obama may well be his decline among all-important independent voters. Just 37.5 percent of self-identified independents say they approve of how Obama is handling the presidency. That compares with 59.2 percent of independents who disapprove…

Continued evidence of declining popularity there will ratchet up the pressure on congressional blue dogs and other conservative Democrats to go their own way on controversial proposals such as public-option healthcare and energy cap-and-trade, knowing they can’t rely on presidential coattails to prop them up with voters.

Quite so, which is why any righty blogger with any kind of audience should be trumpeting Obama’s declining numbers. The lower they go, the more pressure there is on Blue Dogs to kill the bill. Make sure they know it.

Dude, The One’s first term is now … totally wee-wee’d.
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