Foxagandists and other right-wing megaphones would like to convince everyone that the ruckus being raised in Republican lawmakers' home districts over proposed cuts in Medicare and Medicaid is solely the doing of liberal organizers. They
wish this were true. But, while groups like Moveon.org and Americans United for Change have targeted some push back against GOP Congresspeople during the current recess, the real problem for elected Republicans is that the changes they are supporting are profoundly unpopular even among conservatives. Which explains the
retreat we're seeing from some Representatives, as explained earlier today by Joan McCarter.
As shown in the above chart derived from a recent McClatchy-Marist poll, two thirds of conservatives and three-fourths of Republicans and moderates oppose cutting the federal budget deficit by whacking Medicare and Medicaid.
That's not all. There is remarkably strong support among Republicans surveyed in the poll—43 percent—for raising taxes on the people making more than $250,000 a year. Does Rush Limbaugh know such a big slice of his party has joined the other side in the class war?