Poll: GOPers Want Anti-Reform Reps To Forgo Gov't Health Care

[kpete]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Republicans and independents have decided that incoming members of Congress who ran against health care reform and still take their government-funded benefits are hypocrites. Democrats, not so much.

That's one conclusion from a new national poll from Democratic firm PPP, http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_National_1123.pdf which shows big majorities of GOP and independent voters saying the politicians who ran against the health care reform law should forgo the health care benefits they're entitled to as employees of the federal government.

Just 28% of Republican respondents said that new anti-reform members should take their federal benefits, while a whopping 58% said they shouldn't. Among independents -- who voted for the GOP in big numbers on Nov. 2 -- 56% say politicians who made health care repeal a cornerstone of their campaigns should deny themselves their government benefits. Only 27% said they should take them.

The split is much narrower among Democrats, who presumably support the health care law and the idea of government-assisted health care in larger numbers. Forty percent of Democrats said that politicians who ran against the health care law should take their government care anyway, while 46% said they should decline it.

Read more: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/poll-republicans-tell-new-congress-to-just-say-no-to-govt-health-care.php?ref=fpa

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http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_National_1123.pdf

[ClassWarrior]

1. ROFL...

:rofl:

NGU.

[madrchsod]

2. they need to decline their healthcare and...

decline any "earmarks" for their districts.

[704wipes]

3. Now, here is what we hit them with if any actually do it

Say okay that was big of you and there is no question you can go to the 'free market' with a salary of over $200,000 per year. BUT, how the fuck do you expect one of your constituents making 20-40K per year to be able to do that?? We need details how you expect someone YOUR age making 30K a year to do exactly what you did. How would your constituents possibly do that?

You know what? The motherfuckers won't have an answer for that and that is what you run against them on... The heartless fucks or the hypocritical fucks, whichever they are. And most of them will turn out to be hypocritical motherfucking PIGS, every last one of them almost, I bet.

And, I want to toot my own horn. If you look back through my posts, I think I may be the first person on DU to raise this some time back. Thank You very much.

[subterranean]

8. They won't care.

They'll just say we already have universal health care in America because anyone can just go the ER and they have to treat you. :eyes:

[titaniumsalute]

9. $200,000 per year will not do much

if you end up needing a new liver, heart or other major surgery. I knew a 40 year old woman who's liver gace out. They owed $300K when said and done. That's the hypocrisy in this.

[SoapBox]

4. Hello DEMS? You've got an opening here...will you screw it up?

Time for a website..."GOPers at the Public Healthcare Trough" or something like that!

Get up a site! List ALL the GOBPers on the government sponsored plans...and then mark
them off as they refuse the plan.

I can guarantee that those not accepting the plans would be a very small percentage.

[Crunchy Frog]

6. Do bears shit in the woods?

[cstanleytech]

7. Probably a bit early atleast imo for them to

to really exploit this against the republicans to its full potential.

[Crunchy Frog]

5. If free market health insurance is so great

than that's what they should be getting.

[alp227]

10. More Democrats want the anti-reformers to take the gov care anyway?

Must be a great campaign strategy. ;-)

[kentauros]

12. No, 40% of Democrats said they should take it anyway,

while 46% said they should decline it. I'm in the 46%. I was called on that poll (screened the call, and picked up even though it said "Unknown Name, Unknown Number".) I was proud to skew the results to the left for my little part :D

Most of the questions were about Republican presidential bids, by the way.

[prolesunited]

11. Here's a campaign by CREDO action

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/gop_healthcare_hypocrites/index2.html?rc=hlinko_1142110_GOPHealth_dk

I posted it to my FB page and received a favorable reaction.

[indypaul]

13. Think this should also apply to their staffs and any

committee staffs where they chair the committee.