Poll: If government careens off fiscal cliff, GOP to shoulder blame
If the U.S. government ends up careening off the "fiscal cliff," Republicans in Congress stand to shoulder most of the blame, according to a new poll released Tuesday.
A majority of Americans said in a new, post-election poll that they do not expect President Barack Obama and members of Congress to reach an agreement to avoid the effects of the fiscal cliff, the combination of automatic spending cuts and tax hikes set to take effect at the beginning of the year.
Fifty-three percent of Americans said Republicans in Congress would be more to blame in that instance, according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted in the days following the election. Twenty-nine percent said that Obama would be more to blame, while 10 percent said both the president and Republicans would share blame.
Those kinds of numbers help set the political landscape heading into the impending fight to resolve the long-running fiscal standoff, which features an emboldened Obama fresh off a re-election victory and a Republican Party looking to regain its footing in Washington after losing seats in the House and Senate in addition to Mitt Romney's White House loss.
Pretty sure hard core leftists could line up nursing home residents and execute them and successfully blame the outcome on the right, and vice versa. No one ever takes any blame where it's due.
Fox News doubts anything will be settled this year, time for the losers to pack up the offices, the newbies to go to orientation, and everybody else go on vacation.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
I find it rather telling that 53% of Americans look to Republicans in Congress to lead us out of this mess while only 10% expect the President to assume that leadership role. That should tell you alot about their expectation of "leadership" from the Oval Office.
I know you want to come back and say, "it's all the Republican's fault" but the reality is a very weighty topic, the national debt, is on the line here. I'm still looking for that presidential leadership, olive branches and the seeking of common ground.
All I see right now is what I saw BEFORE the election from the President. His idea of compromise is, "it's my way or the highway".
We will see how that method of "compromise" and leadership works for America between now and January 1st.
lionshead2010 wrote: I find it rather telling that 53% of Americans look to Republicans in Congress to lead us out of this mess while only 10% expect the President to assume that leadership role. That should tell you alot about their expectation of "leadership" from the Oval Office.
I know you want to come back and say, "it's all the Republican's fault" but the reality is a very weighty topic, the national debt, is on the line here. I'm still looking for that presidential leadership, olive branches and the seeking of common ground.
All I see right now is what I saw BEFORE the election from the President. His idea of compromise is, "it's my way or the highway".
We will see how that method of "compromise" and leadership works for America between now and January 1st.
I do not hold any trust in polls to start with. This is not just a GOP problem, this is a Democrat and Republican problem. Democrats are just as much to blame as the rest. Congress as a whole for the last 6 years has done nothing but deepen our national debt, done nothing to try to resolve the problems and just let things go. Hell they can't even get a budget done on time.
The President is only as good as Congress will allow him to be.
