Study: Tea Party Gets Lower Approval Rating than Atheists

[Obama_2012]

A recent survey got some surprising results about the Tea Party. Professors from Harvard and Notre Dame started the study in 2006 on "American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites us...

They recently decided to add the Tea Party and Atheists to it..

It was found the Tea Party drew a lower approval rating than Muslims and Atheists.

They fell below 23 other entries including Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, and the republican and democratic parties.

http://arkansasmatters.com/news-fulltext?nxd_id=453937

 

[renard_ruse]

Media demonization through mass propaganda works. This is a surprise?

 

[NeverEndingMe]

omg, are you that fucktard stupid that you want another 4 crappy years?

obama has killed the economy
obama has racked up trillions of debt


its just not working!


honey, time to back a winner and stop backing a whiner

A recent survey got some surprising results about the Tea Party. Professors from Harvard and Notre Dame started the study in 2006 on "American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites us...

They recently decided to add the Tea Party and Atheists to it..

It was found the Tea Party drew a lower approval rating than Muslims and Atheists.

They fell below 23 other entries including Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, and the republican and democratic parties.

http://arkansasmatters.com/news-fulltext?nxd_id=453937

 

[mercury14]

Media demonization through mass propaganda works. This is a surprise?

And the S&P downgrading us because of the Tea Party using default as a bargaining chip didn't play too well, did it? Is that what you call unfair media demonization?

 

[garbage can]

And the S&P downgrading us because of the Tea Party using default as a bargaining chip didn't play too well, did it? Is that what you call unfair media demonization?

Last I heard, S&P did not downgrade us because of revenue, it was because of spending.

How do you reconcile that??

 

[Drixxx]

And the S&P downgrading us because of the Tea Party using default as a bargaining chip didn't play too well, did it? Is that what you call unfair media demonization?

Harry S. Truman: I don't give 'em hell, I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.

 

[mercury14]

Last I heard, S&P did not downgrade us because of revenue, it was because of spending.

How do you reconcile that??

*facepalm* It's because of the deficit. And the way the debt ceiling was handled.

If you were a credit rating agency and you saw about 80 congressman and a number of presidential candidates talking about how default is a legitimate strategy for dealing with the debt, would you consider that a risk factor? All it would take is Michelle Bachmann to be elected and the leader of the free world would be promoting debt default.

Blame the fucknuts you elected.

 

[RoryN]

This thread was created by an anti-Obama alt.

 

[richard_daily]

Last I heard, S&P did not downgrade us because of revenue, it was because of spending.

How do you reconcile that??

You didn't actually read the report, did you?

S&P places the blame for the downgrade squarely on the Republicans and their political showboating... Predictably, the Republicans, rather than be the party of "personal responsibility", have been unsuccessfully trying to pass the buck.

Nothing new.

"We lowered our long-term rating on the U.S. because we believe that the prolonged controversy over raising the statutory debt ceiling and the related fiscal policy debate indicate that further near-term progress containing the growth in public spending, especially on entitlements, or on reaching an agreement on raising revenues is less likely than we previously assumed and will remain a contentious and fitful process.

The political brinksmanship of recent months highlights what we see as America's governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable than what we previously believed. The statutory debt ceiling and the threat of default have become political bargaining chips in the debate over fiscal policy. Despite this year's wide-ranging debate, in our view, the differences between political parties have proven to be extraordinarily difficult to bridge, and, as we see it, the resulting agreement fell well short of the comprehensive fiscal consolidation program that some proponents had envisaged until quite recently.

Compared with previous projections, our revised base case scenario now assumes that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, due to expire by the end of 2012, remain in place. We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act."

Our revised upside scenario--which, other things being equal, we view as consistent with the outlook on the 'AA+' long-term rating being revised to stable--retains these same macroeconomic assumptions. In addition, it incorporates $950 -billion of new revenues on the assumption that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts
for high earners lapse from 2013 onwards, as the Administration is advocating.

- Standard and Poors

 

[mercury14]

You didn't actually read the report, did you?

S&P places the blame for the downgrade squarely on the Republicans and their political showboating... Predictably, the Republicans, rather than be the party of "personal responsibility", have been unsuccessfully trying to pass the buck.

Nothing new.

Hannity told him not to read it.

 

[richard_daily]

Hannity told him not to read it.

"Just take our word for it, it's Obama's fault!"

 

[Obama_2012]

This thread was created by an anti-Obama alt.

I don't understand your take on this? In another thread of mine you stated this, without watching the video, mind you.

A thread celebrating the Tea Party...posted under an alt celebrating Obama.

Oops.

Then you made another comment in your MLK thread which I found odd. If you have a problem with me posting about the Tea Party or posting pictures of MLK in a thread dedicated to the man, then I suggest you do not view my posts anymore, son.