Posted by
Mike Bates on Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:28:29 PM
On yesterday's The Situation Room, CNN senior political analyst Gloria Borger
spoke with host Suzanne Malveaux about polling done on ObamaCare:
MALVEAUX: Gloria, I want to start off with you.
One thing that the polls were showing is that most Americans, they
support this idea of this public option, but they also believe that the
president wants the government to take over the health care system.
Well, how does that -- how do you make sense of that?
GLORIA BORGER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, in fact, 53
percent believe that Obama wants to take over the health care system,
and 42 percent say no. And I think what this shows is that the
Republican PR about President Obama being big government, big deficit,
big spender, has really taken hold over the congressional recess.
People believe that he wants big government.
What Borger is missing here is that the principal reason Americans
view Obama as a big government, big deficit, big spending liberal is
because he is. "Republican PR" might emphasize that simple truth, but
the facts speak for themselves and many Americans would have arrived at
the same conclusion regardless.
Last month, The Heritage Foundation's Brian M. Riedl reviewed some updated statistics from Obama's own administration:
The Office of Management and Budget has released its
annual mid-session review that updates the budget projections from this
past May. They show that this year, Washington will spend $30,958 per
household, tax $17,576 per household, and borrow $13,392 per household.
The federal government will increase spending 22 percent this year to a
peacetime-record 26 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). This
spending is not just temporary: President Obama would permanently keep
annual spending between $5,000 and $8,000 per household higher than it
had been under President George W. Bush.
Admittedly, most citizens don't know those precise numbers. At the
same time, as they see Obama's heavy hand of government interference
intruding more and more into our daily lives, as they see budget
projections that even a year ago were unimaginable, as they come to a
realization that there aren't enough "rich" people to fund more
socialist schemes, they see Obama for what he is.
That doesn't require Republican PR. Is they weren't so biased, even the mainstream media could figure it out.