Recess Rallies Against ObamaCare

Sorry, folks! I was so hunkered down getting ready for a new school year that I was MIA this week and missed the very big deal of nationwide protests against ObamaCare yesterday (8/24)!!! But, I'm sure you had your ear to the ground and were aware of what was going on ... while I was scrambling like a chicken with my head cut off. Now that I've come up for air this weekend, I've been getting caught up on the goings-on yesterday. Here's a collection of some good stuff about the Recess Rallies!

According to KSDK News Channel 5, there were more than a thousand Recess Rallies planned around the country yesterday, and all were planned by The Tea Party, a "group committed to top the "so-called Washington takeover of the medical industry. People turned out to voice their wishes outside Rep. Russ Carnahan's and Senator Claire McCaskill's offices.

First, here's a Marine vet, David Hedrick, that let his representative Brian Baird have it at a town hall meeting in Clark County, Washington:



Second, check out this video posted over at the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition. He received it from a local grade school teacher. The video was produced by "Doctor X", an anesthesiologist ... and the singer of this humorous little diddy:



Meanwhile, Conservatives for Patients' Rights has released an ad to be aired while the Obamas are on vacation in Martha's Vineyard:



And Bob Parks of Black & Right has posted a poll by Rasmussen showing that the President's approval rating continues to decline with 41% strongly disapproving.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. These figures mark the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President. The previous low of -12 was reached on July 30.

Prior to today, the number who Strongly Approved of the President’s performance had never fallen below 29%. Some of the decline has come from within the President’s own party. Just 49% of Democrats offer such a positive assessment of the President at this time.

At the other end of the spectrum, today’s total for Strongly Disapprove matches the highest level yet recorded. The 41% mark was reached just once before and that came one week ago today. Seventy percent (70%) of Republicans now Strongly Disapprove along with 49% of those not affiliated with either major party.

[Click here for more from Rasmussen.]

Let's wrap this up with a thought from Sen. Joe Lieberman who voices the same thing I've been wondering: Why don't we wait on the issue of heath care until after the economy has recovered a bit?

LIEBERMAN: Morally, everyone of us would like to cover every American with health insurance but that’s where you spend most of the trillion dollars plus, or a little less that is estimated, the estimate said this health care plan will cost. And I’m afraid we’ve got to think about putting a lot of that off until the economy is out of recession. There’s no reason we have to do it all now

A pretty good idea, especially after Friday's report by Reuters that the Obama administration was off by some 2 trillion dollars in its deficit estimate. Now the 10-year budget deficit is projected to be approximately $9 trillion, up from $7.108 trillion. TRILLION!!!!!!