Campaign for Health Care: Yes Please!
John on January 20, 2010 at 9:39 am
Saw this in the Hot Air headlines. From the Daily Caller:
David Plouffe, who ran Obama’s presidential campaign, was defiant, saying that the Massachusetts election was not a referendum on health care.
“We have a choice as a party. We can cut and run, which I think will be devastating to the country … or we can get this done,” Plouffe said. “We ought to get this done and we ought to go out on the campaign”
Mr. Plouffe is a professional and I’m just an unpaid blogger. But it seems to me, having watched this process very closely, that every time the Dems go on the campaign trail for health reform, the public reaction grows even more negative.
First it happened over the summer recess at the townhalls. That was a disaster.
Then there was a brief spike in the popularity of the plan around late Septempber/early October (somewhere in there). The president jumped on that and began talking it up again. And the numbers dropped again.
So, please, by all means. Put the President’s full faith and credit down on this one. It’s a perfect way to lead into the 2010 elections (if you’re a Republican that is).
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Sen Russ Feingold was taken over the coals re ObamaCare at least four times in the last 2 weeks as he visited various counties in Wisconsin.
And those are just the ones at which MSM cameras/reporters were present.
January 20, 2010 @ 10:24 amPersonally, I think it most likely that Obama and the leftists in his party will double down as much as they are able. But the statistically small yet politically significant contingent of Bayh’s, Lieberman’s and Webb’s will restrain the left within the democrat party, by what they are willing to abide, as they can’t pass legislation without them.
That contingents ‘leverage’ has been, with the Brown victory, greatly increased. And, as the polls show increasingly grim numbers for the democrats, the moderates will be less and less inclined to support any legislation that hasn’t at least some republican support.
Brown, who may give the republican response to the President’s State of the Union speech next week, will have a ready made platform from which to air his views, which will get national attention.
Next month, the Tea Party convention is going to have a real impact among conservatives and will I suspect, greatly affect the republican leadership, who will make the decision to get out in front of the movement, by embracing it.
The trick for the Republicans is going to be to reach out to the blue dogs and independents to put together and propose alternative new legislation so that they can neutralize the claim that they are strictly obstructionist. They need to post those bills on the internet so that supporters have something concrete to point to, in rebuttal to the inevitable democrat’s slur of ‘obstructionist’.
At the same time, the leftists won’t support moderate legislation and so consequently, not much legislatively is going to get done.
It’s going to be a case of some democrats yelling “there’s a cliff ahead!” with the most ideological of the lemmings yelling, “stay the course!”
The electorate is fresh out of patience. By November, heads are going to roll and, they will mostly be ‘blue’ ones. Unemployment is going to stay in the double digits and may rise yet further still. Inflation is eagerly anticipating its entrance.
And Al Qaeda is likely to attack, again and again. Even if not successful, multiple attempts are going to further erode confidence in the administration’s competence.
All of this leads me to predict that come November, we shall witness the single greatest loss of political power ever by an incumbent party. Not only will the republicans take back the House but quite probably the Senate as well.
And so come November, for the democrats, it’s going to be a train wreck of truly biblical proportions.
January 20, 2010 @ 5:39 pmThe health care refrom is just one of the many concerns of the administration. I think they have to think and discern many times before the health reform bill will be realized. The people are already very critical enough to see its loopholes…which is something positive.
January 25, 2010 @ 10:51 am