Leaked White House Memo Advises Democrats on How to Spin Obamacare

theweeklystandard.com ^ | August 20, 2010 | JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

[patriotspride]

Go down in flames.............

That’s what this deserves.

P.S Dems—— you fooled them once, to quote the Who “ Wont get fooled again”

[BenLurkin]

"Obamacare cannot be improved. It can only be repealed."

[neodad]

Keep claims small and credible

That's a tall order for Dems...

[Mojave]

"Obamacare cannot be improved. It can only be repealed."

I dunno. How about making it applicable solely to the President and his staff?

[Man50D]

Repealing Obamacare is all well and good but in the end it doesn’t matter. Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution does not specifically list regulating health care as an enumerated power and therefore is unconstitutional! The people are not bound to comply with an unconstitutional act regardless of the outcome in Congress! The people are the government and have the final say as to how they will be governed! It is time for people to defend the Constitution by openly defying the marxist regime!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"People can be moved from initial skepticism and support for repeal of the law to favorable feelings and resisting repeal."

Sure. Does not meet a single one of the claimed objectives and benefits, and we're going to all move to "favorable feelings"? Not a snowball's chance. The only thing that cause "favorable feelings" would be ejection of all the commies and socialists from Congress and impeachment hearings against Obama. Only then would I switch to favorable feelings.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks goldendays. Obama should take a bow.

• Saudis Break Spinal Cords, Israeli Medical Science Heals Them

[glocker23]

You can’t spin this... Surgeons Going Galt...http://vimeo.com/11378278

[Qbert]

Hmmm. Each week we get a new big-time leak (this; the secret amnesty memos; the Sherrod meeting info, etc.)...and then Barack Milhaus runs away from the Oval Office to take another vacation. Hmmm...

[combat_boots]

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

P.S Dems—— you fooled them once, to quote the Who “ Wont get fooled again”

They only fooled themselves. They never fooled the American public and there will be hell to pay in Novermber.

[Hostage]

I love the sound of ‘REPEAL’ in the morning.

REPEAL Obamacare.
REPEAL the 16th.
REPEAL the 17th.

Lovely sound.

[Brytani]

I don’t think the American people are going to buy the WH’s new spin on health care. They never supported this bill, support it even less now and no amount of bs is changing that.

My concern is the new spin gives our RINO’s a way out of supporting and voting for full repeal of the bill.

Do not fix it - do not tweak it - REPEAL THE DAMNED THING

We’re going to have to stand on their necks just as hard as Pelosi stood on ours.

[fightinJAG]

Trust the Rats to “fix” — er, “improve” — Obamacare? Wait, wasn’t it the Rats that drove the healthcare reform car into the ditch? Should America vote to give the keys again in November?

[hampdenkid]

Subtract negro support from the Obama government health care takeover, and it has virtually no support among rank and file, average, everyday Americans. And negroes, of course, would support every move Obama made, even if he were out strangling kittens on the WH lawn.

[Hostage]

This piece may accurately measure voter sentiment but it has no practical value.

To repeal Obamacare will take 2/3s of Congress and the numbers will not be there after the election. Some democrats may swing over to repeal but many of those that whisper such now will be defeated in November because they are blue dogs who are not supported by the DNC leadership.

The leaked memo if it actually exists is merely trying to downplay Obamacare as an issue in the Fall elections, That the Weekly Standard would stretch it as a fear of repeal is well, a stretch.

[SunkenCiv]

'donttalkcost' keyword, newest to oldest:

• Who's ObamaCare's Daddy? Now even liberals are denying paternity
• Stacy, the EIB Insurance Expert (under 35, preexisting condition, free Commiecare costs $12,340/yr)
• New Dem message: 'Improve' health care, don't talk cost
• The new message: 'Improve' health care, don't talk cost
• The Cost of Dying: End-of-Life Care (CBS Pro-Death Panel Propaganda)
• The IRS's vast new ObamaCare powers.
• Merck to Cut 16,000 Workers as Drugmaker Closes 16 Plants, Labs
• No Economic Growth on Horizon, Just Massive Obama Tax Increases (right after November elections)
• Health law could ban low-cost plans (more than 1 million to lose insurance in September)
• Obama Names Rationing Czar to Run Medicare
• Shocker: Major corporations may dump health insurance, pay penalties instead
• Top Officers Urge Higher TriCare Fees
• Fox News- Waxman Cancels CEO Obamacare Writedowns/Costs Hearings
• Democrats threaten companies hit hard by health care bill
• Joint Committee on Taxation Confirms that ObamaCare Does Not Enforce Individual Mandate
• The ObamaCare Writedowns
• Scary ObamaCare Cuts in Medicare Revealed!
• ObamaCare Will Effectively Bar New Physician-Owned Hospitals
• 12 Taxes in Health Care Law Violate Obama's Pledge Not to Increase Taxes on Earnings Less than $250m
• Democrats Now Own Health Care: Blame EVERY Rate Increase Or Reduction In Benefits On THEM
• Krauthammer: Obamacare to Result in National Sales Tax on Americans; Public Option Already Here
• Tricare Meets Health Care Bill's Standards, Gates Says
• Gov Palin Breaks Down Obamacare on O'Reilly
• Dems Stiff Soldiers: Health Care Plan Will NOT Protect Military Health Plans
• Impact of Medicare Reimbursement Rate Decrease on TRICARE
• Boehner: ObamaCare includes hiring 16,000 new IRS officers to track everyone's bank accounts
• CBO: Health Bill Would Force Families to Buy Insurance Costing a Minimum of $12,000 Per Year
• FoxNews/Hannity: Obamacare to create 15,000 IRS positions to fine Americans
• Obamacare Grants IRS Perilous Power
• Idiot-in-Chief: ObamaCare Will Reduce Premiums by 3000 Percent
• Study Shows 'ObamaCare' Could Cost 700K Jobs
• The ObamaCare Lies Thicken in Ohio
• A Guide To The President's Lies About Obamacare's Cost
• Pelosi: Health-Care Reform Will Finally Allow Artists to Focus on Being Unemployed, Comfortably
• Student loans to be in healthcare package: Pelosi
• Health Reform Passes the Cost Test
• Democrat Falsely Claims Senate Health Care Bill Doesn't Fund Abortions
• Buffet: Control Health Care Cost (Not pushing Obamacare)
• Senior Citizens May Not Get Social Security COLA for Years Says Kaiser Medicare Brief
• Scott Brown: Dems want to cut Military's TriCare to help fund ObamaCare
• Covering Obamacare Cost; Military Hit First
• CBO: Real 10-Year Cost of Senate Bill Still $2.5 Trillion
• How Much Will Your States' Taxes Go Up In Obamacare?
• Cato: Obamacare Price Tag Is 6 Trillions
• No Social Security Raises For Two Years (Medicare Deduction To Increase)
• "End Of Life Counseling"

some archival stuff:

• It Begins… Dem Congresswoman Brings In Street Thug at Town Hall Meeting to Threaten Constituents
• Tainted By Rangel Cash, History, Rep. Bean (D), Censors, Intimidates At Townhall Event
• Chicago Congresswoman Brings Her Thugs To Townhall Meeting
• Issa: Obama administration conducted propaganda campaigns for agenda

interesting:

• Early signs point to constitutional rejection of ObamaCare
• King challenges politicians to stand against 'Obamacare'
• Pro-Obamacare Senator Blanche Lincoln
  Down 65-27 in Arkansas Senate Race
• Obamacare Reality Brings Terror to Democrats
• Worried Democrats courting elderly voters as midterm elections near
• Who's ObamaCare's Daddy? Now even liberals are denying paternity

Death Panels:

• US breast cancer drug decision 'marks start of death panels'
• Death Panels Begin As Reform Takes Shape
• Don't Tell Palin, Here Come The Death Panels

[Southack]

Think bigger picture. Any GOP majority in either the House or Senate means that 0bamacare won’t get funded.

Period.

It’s dead.

[TruthHound]

ping