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Originally Posted by aceventura3
....Time will tell. If the government gets spending under control the Tea Party will die down. Otherwise the influence will increase. And it will increase at the expense of old-school Republicans who don't get it. Even if Obama wins in 2012, he will face people in Congress who will not compromise. I seriously suggest Obama deal with the issues of spending and the debt now.
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Or, the Independents who voted Republican in 2010 will swing back to Democrats out of disapproval of the "less than shared sacrifice" of the Republican debt reduction plan that is based as much or more on ideology than on fiscal impacts.
In a Wash Post poll today, only 21 percent support cutting (gutting the program and turning it into a voucher type program) Medicare, while 75 percent wanted to eliminate the Bush tax cuts for the top bracket.
Poll shows Americans oppose entitlement cuts to deal with debt problem - The Washington Post