On The Wrong Side Again

A new Quinnipiac University poll shows a staggering majority of Americans -- eighty-one percent -- favor limiting the pay of executives whose companies take bailout money. Some other pretty amazing results:

Only 10 percent of American voters say executives who received bonuses from companies helped by the government should keep the bonuses. Other choices are:

• 22 percent want the government to ask the executives to voluntarily give the money back;
• 30 percent want the government to cut off funding until the bonuses are repaid;
• 16 percent say tax the bonuses at 90 percent;
• 2 percent say sue the executives to get the money back;
• 13 percent say launch criminal investigations to get the money back.

Nice. And there's this on Obama's budget:

American voters approve 58 - 31 percent of the job President Barack Obama is doing, compared to 59 - 25 percent in a March 4 Quinnipiac University poll. Support is strongest, 69 - 26 percent, among voters 18 to 29 years old and declines with age. Voters approve 55 - 37 percent of the way President Obama is handling the economy and approve 56 - 25 percent of the way he is handling foreign policy.

Voters disapprove 59 - 30 percent of the job Republicans in Congress are doing and disapprove 49 - 40 percent of the job Democrats in Congress are doing.

Obama is trying to do too much, too soon, 35 percent of voters say, but 59 percent say the issues need swift action. Even voters over 65 say 46 - 44 percent that swift action is needed.

Voters say 47 - 28 percent, with 21 percent undecided, that Obama's call for higher taxes on those making more than $250,000 a year is good for the economy. Voters in that higher income bracket disagree 41 - 29 percent, with 27 percent undecided.

By a 50 - 43 percent margin, voters oppose the plan to spend $1 trillion to buy up bad loans from banks, but voters split 37 - 35 percent, with 28 percent undecided, in their approval of the job Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is doing.

So he's not doing too much, they support his budget, and the only thing the voters don't like is the Geithner Plan.

Also, they think Republicans are on the wrong side of America yet again.