Sixty-three percent of Americans think House Speaker John Boehner needs to be replaced.
More than half of American public say it is bad for the US that the GOP controls the House of Representatives, a recent national poll has demonstrated a few days after a partial US government shutdown ended.
According to the CNN/ORC International survey, 54 percent or respondents say it’s a bad thing that the GOP controls the House.
The poll also indicated that 6 out of every 10 Americans, 63 percent, think House Speaker John Boehner needs to be replaced.
At the end of the shutdown, Boehner had said: “We fought the good fight. We just didn’t win.”
The poll was conducted just after the 16-day federal government shutdown over the fiscal budget problems. Hoping to defund or delay the President’s signature Healthcare law, Republicans refused to reauthorize the borrowing that US government needed to continue paying its bills.
Eventually, the GOP agreed to raise the debt limit without achieving any of its goals from the shutdown that cost the US economy an estimated $24 billion and sent Congress’ approval ratings to all time lows.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday a Republican effort to defund President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare reform law in the run up to the government shutdown handed a “political gift” to the president.
“I think we’ve learned that this was a political gift to the president by the Republican Party at a time when he needed it most,” Graham said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“The tactic of defunding the government unless he [Obama] repealed his signature issue was as poorly designed as Obamacare itself, almost,” Graham said, adding that the fight “hurt” the Republican Party.
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Source: Press TV