{"id":22021,"date":"2013-09-07T08:14:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T13:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22021"},"modified":"2013-09-07T08:14:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T13:14:42","slug":"heres-a-poll-wed-like-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/09\/07\/heres-a-poll-wed-like-to-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s a poll we&#8217;d like to see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2013-09-06\/fact-or-fiction-poll-says-majority-americans-approve-sending-congress-syria\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Zero Hedge<\/em><\/a> conducts its own poll on this question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As President Obama continues to push for a plan of limited military intervention in Syria, a new poll of Americans has found that though the nation remains wary over the prospect of becoming involved in another Middle Eastern war, the vast majority of U.S. citizens strongly approve of sending Congress to Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em>\/CBS News poll showed that though just 1 in 4 Americans believe that the United States has a responsibility to intervene in the Syrian conflict, more than 90 percent of the public is convinced that putting all 535 representatives of the United States Congress on the ground in Syria \u2014 including Senate <em>pro tempore<\/em> Patrick Leahy, House Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and, in fact, all current members of the House and Senate \u2014 is the best course of action at this time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe it is in the best interest of the United States, and the global community as a whole, to move forward with the deployment of all U.S. congressional leaders to Syria immediately,\u201d respondent Carol Abare, 50, said in the nationwide telephone survey, echoing the thoughts of an estimated 9 in 10 Americans who said they \u201cstrongly support\u201d any plan of action that involves putting the U.S. House and Senate on the ground in the war-torn Middle Eastern state. \u201cWith violence intensifying every day, now is absolutely the right moment \u2014 the perfect moment, really \u2014 for the United States to send our legislators to the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, my preference would have been for Congress to be deployed months ago,\u201d she added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero Hedge conducts its own poll on this question: As President Obama continues to push for a plan of limited military intervention in Syria, a new poll of Americans has found that though the nation remains wary over the prospect of becoming involved in another Middle Eastern war, the vast majority of U.S. citizens strongly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,57,370,13],"tags":[698,463,289,694],"class_list":["post-22021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-humour","category-middle-east","category-usa","tag-congress","tag-parody","tag-polls","tag-syria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5Jb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22023,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22021\/revisions\/22023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}