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Americans Historically Resistant to Reform
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Aug 16, 2009 10:50pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Sharyl Attkisson |
| Media | TV News - Columbia Broadcasting System CBS News |
| News Date | Sunday, August 16, 2009 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | (CBS) It was by any measure a rough week for congressional Democrats.
"Members of Congress are getting more than an earful," political professor Larry Sabato, who directs the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, told CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson for CBS' "Sunday Morning." "They're getting a belly full."
And the loudest belly-achers got a boost from the media, Sabato said.
"Whenever you have people yelling and screaming and shouting, there's hype involved, and the coverage always exaggerates those who do the shouting," Sabato said. "It's the most exciting television. Let's face it. It gets on and is replayed over and over. So there is some hype, and that's why it gets on but it's wrong to suggest there are no legitimate concerns."
Sabato said the frustration has been months in the making.
"It's about a whole range of issues that started to develop last November after Barack Obama's election," Sabato said. "Then as Obama started making appointments, getting a stimulus bill passed, proposing a health care initiative, all of this further irritated the 46 percent who voted against him … You can almost see that the anger and frustration have built up month after month, and it's exploded, and the proximate cause of the explosion is health care." |
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