Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare

Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare
Posted by Laurence Vance on May 22, 2011 03:38 PM

That's what was seen on a sign during the debates over the healthcare bill at an anti-Obamacare rally. Now, in a recent McClatchy-Marist poll, 70 percent of those who identify with the Tea Party oppose cutting Medicare and Medicaid to deal with the federal budget deficit. Here are two other questions with disturbing answers from Tea Partiers.

Do you support or oppose doing each of the following to deal with the federal budget deficit: Increase taxes on income over 250,000 dollars? Only 53 percent opposed this. Do you support or oppose doing each of the following to deal with the federal budget deficit: Reduce military spending? Only 32 percent supported this. Oh, and a majority approved of the job Republicans are doing in Congress. And here's a surprise, 18 percent of Tea Partiers have a favorable impression of President Obama. That's almost as funny as the over 50 percent that claim in other polls to have a favorable impression of George W. Bush.