Posted on 07/03/2012 7:21:39 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
With just over four months to go before the election, and Republicans ravening to make health care a frontline issue, the Obama campaign still appears to be pursuing a "wishful thinking" strategy. They are simply wishing that the Affordable Care Act, the president's signature domestic achievement, would go away now that the Supreme Court has delivered what they hope is a "final answer," to quote White House Chief of Staff Jacob Lew. "I don't think the American people want to have this debate again," Lew said on Fox News Sunday, reflecting the "let's move on" approach reported by National Journal's Major Garrett, among others.
But the Republican Party clearly does intend to have this debate, all the way into November, and Lew's tepid talking-points are a warning sign that the White House is, yet again, surrendering the message war on a central issue that even Obama partisans admit was poorly marketed the first time around, before and after ACA was signed into law in 2010.
It's not that Republicans have a better message. Questioned on Fox News Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had no answer to give host Chris Wallace when the latter asked what the GOP would do about the 30 million uninsured. "That's not the issue," McConnell sputtered. Like Speaker John Boehner on another Sunday show, he indicated that the GOP clearly had no alternative "replace" plan of its own beyond what Boehner called a "common-sense, step by step approach."
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(p/s to admin) I did not find this during search, but if this is a duplicate, please pull it.
And as my former Newsweek colleague Geoffrey Cowley, one of the most astute health-care journalists in the country, points out, "polls consistently show that more Americans oppose the Affordable Care Act than support it--not because they've evaluated and rejected it but because they don't understand it."
Yeah, tell people they're stupid bumpkins who can't understand.
Great selling point!
Go ahead and run with that.
Everytime they fail to sell a box of crap to the public, they blame the box.
The mess has been handed to Congress (and November voters) for solution.
no, I can’t believe it! (sarcasm)
We were told that we have to pass the bill to see what’s in it.
And we were told that when people learn what is actually in Obamacare, that then they approve of it.
So once they win this “messaging” war, then people will approve of Obamacare, right? The reason Obamacare is down in the polls is because people still don’t know what’s in the bill, right???? (more sarcasm)
Do not question why it is, that the liberals are still trying to educate us about how wonderful Obamacare is two years after it passed. The president has said we can’t re-fight the battles of the past and all that. We are to be silent! The court has spoken. The president says we need to move on! We mere peons are not to question the wisdom of Emperor Obamus the First!!!
No need for s tag. I hear ya!
They're fumbling it.
They're frothing at the mouth over something which won't affect most people. Near everyone has some form of healthcare insurance, which will be tweaked a little to match the new law. Vanishingly few people will in fact be subjected to actual payment of the fine; those who are may in fact be happy about it because paying it is the cost of a new system where they don't have to pay far more until they need it (a la "I've got heart surgery scheduled in 10 days...maybe I should get some insurance now.") As far as "undecided" voters go, NOBODY CARES.
This frothing is taking the spotlight off the big real issue of "IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID". The "undecideds" will be more swayed by discussions of 10% unemployment and soaring inflation, not by rantings about gov't regulations they like and which some 0.01% of them will be negatively affected by.
(Don't get me wrong. Roberts' ruling is a BFD which may doom this nation. It will, however, have little effect on the election at hand which is the point of this thread.)
The Obama Administration mssage is that the tax only applies to freeloaders which is a complete lie. I have yet to hear any Republican point out that the biggest class of freeloaders, illegal aliens, are exempt from the mandate tax provision.
The little bastard commie in the White Hut is telling US to move on because he doesn’t want US to pause long enough to realize he is ruling lawlessly when he grants ‘waivers’ to his cronies for a tax bill legally passed into law. Barry Obama is not allowed by law to grant waiver exemptions from taxes to those who contribute to his empowerment. THAT is what he’s doing and he wants US to move along and not pause to see his lawless rule over US. Sadly, Congress seems too stupid to see it also!
pingaling
Why hasn’t someone filled a lawsuit over these waivers?
Libs are pushing hard to try and exterminate the Obamacare label. Don't let them succeed. Just answer, "What the Hell is the ACA?"
The US Constitution has been destroyed yet again. Nothing "brilliant" has been done here.
What the #311 is so brilliant about taxing inactivity?
Well, the Roberts stamp of it now is a tax has yet to sink in on a House level I huess. I’m gonna write a letter to Trey Gowdy and bring it up as central to stopping the use of this bill as a lawless lever to exempt barry’s buddies from the taxes while slamming the rest of We The People with trillions in new taxes. I suspect ALL of the waivers are now nullable if there are cajones in the feckless Republican led House to act upon this issue.
LOL .just think Obama had nothing to do with the Bill (bet he never even read it ),all he did was give a speech and sign it ,hope he gets all the blame
Obamacare is a rape of the American people.
The American people will shout out every time this program rapes them again for the next hundred years
To believe that we will just continue to be screwed over and over again and keep quiet about it is insane.
They shoved this bill up our butts and every time the Secretary makes a new ruling it is a new rape.
We are not going to quiet down.
One thing that has to be done is make the average voter aware the gaggle of new IRS AGENTS ( gestapo in training ) being hired
I am sure they will be thrilled to death with that
If the GOP or more preferably the PACS ,since I doubt the GOP has enough brains to do it, would take out ads on TV and the news papers showing this to be the case it would have cause a huge backlash
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