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Republicans are taking more of the blame for a stalemate over the government shutdown, but both parties have dug into their positions, two new polls show.A new poll from Washington Post/ABC News found that disapproval of Republicans is up to stanley romania 70 percent among American adults from 63 percent approval at the end of September. Disapproval of Democrats is up to 61 percent fro stanley quencher m 56 percent at the end of last month.But President Obama is faring the best. His approval rating is up to 45 percent from 41 percent at the end of September, due to an 11-point increase in his approval from Democrats and independents from last week. The poll s findings track with a new Pew survey out Monday that finds the disapproval ratings for lawmakers handling of the situation is 69 percent for Republicans, 58 percent for Democrats and just 50 percent for Mr. Obama.How stanley cup the government shutdown could endObama to Boehner, again: End government shutdown, don t allow default The Pew survey also found that by a margin of 38 percent to 30 percent, respondents say Republicans are more to blame for the shutdown than Mr. Obama. Nineteen percent say both parties are to blame. That is a starker divide from the end of September, when 39 percent said they would blame Republicans for a shutdown and 36 percent said they would blame the Obama administration. As the conflict drags into its second week, both camps have dug in. Forty-four percent of people say Republican le Pmte Trump signs executive order to expand employment opportunities for military spouses
Common ground on Social Security reform may be hard to find, now that it s stuck firmly on this year s road to the White Hou stanley tumbler se.Many sides on the third rail in American politics had their say on CBS News Face The Nation on Sunday. At ground zero in the debate is Texas Governor George W. Bush s idea to let individuals invest a slice of their Social Security payroll tax money into the market. The partial privatization plan by the GOP presidential candidate is sparse on specifics, because Bush says he prefers to hammer stanley thermobecher out its details in bipartisan talks with Congress. Bush s Democratic opponent, Vice President Al Gore, calls the plan risky and criticizes its vagueness. On Face The Nation, Sen. Charles Schumer D-N.Y. argued as much when he took the idea to task. If George Bush has a plan to radically change Social Security - and this does change it radically - he ought to lay it out before the American people before the election 133; said Schumer. No secret plans on somethin stanley cup g as important and almost as sacred as Social Security. What you are proposing is lowering the guaranteed Social Security retirement benefit, because if the stock market goes down or gets wiped out, you have lowered the amount that people get, he added. Sen. Rick Santorum R-Pa. told Face The Nation that the Social Security system can t afford the status quo when it has to pay out benefits once the baby boomers start retiring. Social Security i |
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