Fox News Poll: Majority Against Raising Debt Ceiling............

First things first, If my father were alive today, he would have been celebrating his 82nd birthday. Godspeed Dad. I miss you.!

O.K., now for the business at hand.

DEBT CEILING ! ! !........IT'S THE DEBT CEILING STUPID ! ! !

It came as no surprise to me when I read the FOX NEWS POLL yesterday. Voters were asked to imagine being a lawmaker in Congress who had to cast an up-or-down vote on raising the debt ceiling. The poll found 35 percent would vote in favor of increasing the limit, while 60 percent would vote against it.

And if that wasn't proof enough that the DEBT CEILING proposal should be should be scrapped, Most Tea Party people (81 percent), Republicans (76 percent) and independents (63 percent) would vote against raising the limit. Views among Democrats are more evenly divided: 50 percent would raise it and 44 percent wouldn’t.

Here's the part I don't understand. Even though a majority opposes raising the debt limit, more voters think it would be worse for the country if leaders fail to raise the limit and don’t pay some of the country’s bills (50 percent) than to raise the limit and borrow more money (40 percent).

I think B.H.O.'S scare tactics are working, the American people should no be buying his BULL&@#$  ! ! !

FOX'S POLL also showed when given more specific options, voters still prefer not to raise the debt ceiling, yet they are twice as likely to back a plan that includes both spending cuts and tax increases than one with just cuts.

Thirty-five percent would support raising the limit if it is accompanied by a mix of both spending cuts and taxes increases, compared to 17 percent who would increase it if accompanied by cuts but no tax increases. The largest number though -- 42 percent -- still says the limit should not be raised at all.

A 63-percent majority of voters thinks raising taxes during an economic downturn is a bad idea. That’s down from a high of 80 percent who thought so two years ago (August 2009).

Meanwhile, 42 percent of voters think getting rid of tax deductions is the same as raising taxes; 47 percent disagree.

The Fox News poll is based on land line and cell phone interviews with 904 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw Company Research (R) from July 17 to July 19. For the total sample, it has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

The bottom line here is that the majority of the people do not want a DEBT CEILING increase, and the will hold those accountable who support it.

YOURS IN LIBERTY ! ! !

Bob Yeager