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I accept that there are situations where leaders must go against popular opinion Brian Send a noteboard - 23/03/2010 02:53:00 AM
Most polls have shown that a majority of the people in the country are opposed to this reform. Passing the bill when the majority of people do not want it is just bad government and it makes me a bit sick to my stomach.


(first I am making a statement that it isn't easy to poll health care, health care is much too abstract of a question to be able to put in a simple yes/no poll...it is too complicated)

My question is, were you sick to your stomach when Bush said he wasn't going to listen to polls, he is instead going to do with what he believes was right? Polls don't matter, doing good governance matters and according to Bush America elected him for a reason, and once elected it was his job to lead and be decider in chief even though the polls were against him.

So were you sick to your stomach then? I wasn't, I actually agree with Bush in this matter...I just disagree with him on some issues and fervently believe he wasn't a good "steward"/"governor"

I dislike it any time that it happens. I don't care who is in charge, and who is making the decision....when elected officials do not follow what their constituents want, they are not doing their job. They are in government as a representative of the people that elected them. Do I expect them to make everyone happy all the time? No, but when they don't go with what their people want they should be called on it, and they shouldn't be shocked when they are voted out of office because of it.

To go even further, I don't care about Obama's part in this...he was elected with promises of health care reform as a major part of his platform....by all right he is doing what he promised to do when he was elected. It's the Senate and the House that make me sick right now, because they are the ones that passed the legislation in spite of a mountain of evidence that people do not want this particular form of health care reform.

At this point, it doesn't really matter though, I hope that this is the first step that was needed to get the broken health care system in our country fixed.
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No posts on the bill passing? - 22/03/2010 08:22:27 AM 1546 Views
Meh - 22/03/2010 09:07:27 AM 890 Views
Re: Meh - 22/03/2010 01:53:43 PM 910 Views
I know what you mean. I love hearing that the "majority" are against this. - 22/03/2010 01:57:15 PM 1004 Views
surveys are crap anyways. - 22/03/2010 01:59:39 PM 855 Views
That's ignorance speaking. - 22/03/2010 02:02:46 PM 876 Views
well yah. Sorry, I wasn't meaning to say surveys as a whole are nonsense - 22/03/2010 02:09:42 PM 809 Views
Some are a plurality, some are a majority.... - 22/03/2010 04:01:56 PM 921 Views
But most of them with a high/low don't go into enough detail - 22/03/2010 09:24:29 PM 975 Views
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on the other hand *edited stupid spelling error* - 23/03/2010 03:09:47 AM 1038 Views
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Ahahahahahahahaha - 23/03/2010 12:57:17 PM 984 Views
why? *NM* - 23/03/2010 03:37:00 PM 434 Views
Because "populous" is not a noun in English. *NM* - 23/03/2010 03:42:16 PM 411 Views
This. - 23/03/2010 03:46:25 PM 908 Views
damn you phonetics. - 23/03/2010 03:50:33 PM 1154 Views
As Emo Philips would say - 23/03/2010 04:32:52 PM 923 Views
I always laugh when I see someone say people are "retarted" *NM* - 23/03/2010 03:51:46 PM 489 Views
"Get a life, morans!" *NM* - 23/03/2010 03:55:27 PM 430 Views
I think this is one of them - 23/03/2010 12:49:35 PM 1361 Views
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I think with the saturation coverage it has been getting people are just worn out *NM* - 22/03/2010 01:27:59 PM 447 Views
hollah that. *NM* - 22/03/2010 01:58:47 PM 391 Views
Yes. - 22/03/2010 02:38:03 PM 863 Views
Re: No posts on the bill passing? - 22/03/2010 01:39:14 PM 870 Views
I chose to read about it first at the NYT, then the WSJ, then the Economist. - 22/03/2010 01:43:07 PM 1054 Views
Re: I chose to read about it first at the NYT, then the WSJ, then the Economist. - 22/03/2010 02:01:07 PM 860 Views
The Bill won't get repealed. Whatever happens in November. - 23/03/2010 12:17:21 AM 886 Views
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I think reform had to start now. - 22/03/2010 02:27:11 PM 1075 Views
That's a good column. - 22/03/2010 02:44:56 PM 957 Views
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Re: I think the problem highlight what I don't like about this bill - 22/03/2010 03:33:31 PM 878 Views
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I hope your house is built on fimrer foundations then your reasoning - 22/03/2010 04:25:49 PM 922 Views
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bingo - 24/03/2010 03:45:48 AM 1013 Views
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Heh - 22/03/2010 04:21:22 PM 950 Views
Re: Heh - 22/03/2010 04:32:30 PM 858 Views
Re: Heh - 22/03/2010 08:25:05 PM 926 Views
Sorry, I was out seizing the means of production. *NM* - 22/03/2010 07:43:19 PM 376 Views
You should delve the debate before getting excited. - 23/03/2010 07:22:36 AM 959 Views
I really like what GRR Martin wrote in his blog. - 23/03/2010 09:55:11 AM 997 Views
I agree with him - 23/03/2010 12:14:47 PM 876 Views
I would say it is rather weak point - 23/03/2010 01:12:43 PM 867 Views
Erm... - 23/03/2010 01:39:58 PM 979 Views
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Exceptions? - 24/03/2010 05:08:17 AM 823 Views
I haven't been following it too closely - 23/03/2010 02:10:39 PM 1034 Views

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