Little has changed this week on the Generic Ballot as Republican Congressional candidates continue to hold a seven-point lead over Democrats.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 37% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent.
Support for both parties rose one point over the past week, giving Republicans their highest level of support of the past several years. Support for Democrats last week reached its lowest point during that same time period…
…Fifty-one percent (51%) of voters believe that Congress is too liberal while 22% hold the opposite view and say it is too conservative.
Read More: Rasmussen Reports
The next Rhode Island Young Republicans monthly event will be held at Ardeo, the brand-spankin’ new restaurant nestled in between RiRa’s Irish Pub and the Capital Grille in Downtown Providence.
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Sarah Palin: Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care
Writing in the New York Times last month, President Barack Obama asked that Americans “talk with one another, and not over one another” as our health-care debate moves forward.
I couldn’t agree more. Let’s engage the other side’s arguments, and let’s allow Americans to decide for themselves whether the Democrats’ health-care proposals should become governing law…
How can we ensure that those who need medical care receive it while also reducing health-care costs? The answers offered by Democrats in Washington all rest on one principle: that increased government involvement can solve the problem. I fundamentally disagree…
Now look at one way Mr. Obama wants to eliminate inefficiency and waste: He’s asked Congress to create an Independent Medicare Advisory Council—an unelected, largely unaccountable group of experts charged with containing Medicare costs… [T]he president suggested that such a group, working outside of “normal political channels,” should guide decisions regarding that “huge driver of cost… the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives…”
Given such statements, is it any wonder that many of the sick and elderly are concerned that the Democrats’ proposals will ultimately lead to rationing of their health care by — dare I say it — death panels? Establishment voices dismissed that phrase, but it rang true for many Americans…
Read More: The Wall Street Journal