Total CommieCare attenuation factor: ~60%. This leaves 40% of the onerous aspects of CommieCare in place, and this 40%, as it kicks in, throws millions of people out of their private plans, shuts down hundreds of hospitals nationwide, and results in hundreds of thousands of premature deaths among middle-class Americans, many of whom traditionally voted Republican.
Working with the media, Obama and the Democrats are able to sell the idea that the reason "health care reform" isn't working is because of the terrible changes the Republicans, working with "Big Pharma" and "The Hospital Lobby" have been able to "ram through" so as to "sacrifice the health of millions of Americans on the altar of profit." Too many average Americans believe it, and Obama sails to victory in 2012, with a smaller but still decisive majority in the House and Senate.
The State Run Media declares that "Obama's New Majority" have "A Mandate To Put It Back And Then Some," which was Majority Leader Elect Waxman's campaign slogan.
I don’t like your narrative, but I would be lying if I hadn’t thought it myself (or something like it). Strategery in this case cannot be misunderestimated.
It’s a scary story you spin, but it relies on Obama winning back the people he won in 2008 but lost in 2010. These people can be convinced to come back to him in 2012? Not likely I think.
And the tea party isn’t going away. And Obama can’t run on “hope and change” as the incumbent. He can’t build an entire presidential campaign by saying republicans are evil — if that worked then 2010 would be in the bag for him.
If the bottom really has blown out of the boat...as I’m afraid the current pack of fools may have done...’Bammycare and the American Middle class are not but a historical footnote.
Our work is cut our for us - no?