Peggy Brown, who lives in the suburbs of
Washington, said "Fox News, that's about as bad as you can get" and
said that conservative personalities Beck, Sean Hannity, and Rush
Limbaugh "preach and spew out hate" and have "brainwashed" Americans.
As far as the opposition goes, Tom Tancredo, the American Constitution
Party candidate for Governor of Colorado, is well behind the Democrat
(47% to Tancredo's 29%),
but
is whipping the official Republican Party candidate, who's only
polling 21%. Tancredo articulted what I find is a very popular
conservative-Republican attitude towards government spending,
he
hates it. The idea Tancredo pushes is nick-named "
Starve the beast"
and although right-wing activist Grover Norquist is about the most
energetic proponent of it these days, the idea, as with so many other
evil and vicious ideas, started with Ronald Reagan.
But as
Time
Magazine pointed out back in July 2009, as the Affordable Care Act
was losing features due to the Obama Administration constantly giving
ground to both Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats, Americans were very
strongly in support of reforming health care to include
more government, not less.
At the same time, survey respondents
remain dissatisfied with the current state of health-care delivery and
supportive of reform in principle. Forty-six percent of respondents
said it was "very important" that Congress and the President pass major
health reform in the next few months, and an additional 23% said it was
"somewhat important." Only 28% found the immediate effort either not
very or not at all important. In a separate question, more Americans
said it would be better to pass "major reform" to health care (55%)
rather than "minor adjustments" (43%).
On the details of the plan, respondents
remained supportive of many of the rough outlines of the health-reform
effort as originally described by President Obama.
A reporter from RT (Russian TV),
interviews a participant in the rally.
How is the ObamaAdministration on the whole
competence/honesty/reliability field? Pretty
good, actually. The stumulus is too small, but they did what they
could with what they had:
The massive economic stimulus package
President Obama pushed through Congress last year is coming in on time
and under budget – and with strikingly few claims of fraud or abuse –
according to a White House report to be released Friday.
People taking off after rally.
All in all, a good day!