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“ObamaCare – Three Months of Broken Promises”

Giving credit where credit is due...

By: Bill S (Diary)  |  June 23rd, 2010 at 09:02 PM  | 

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A couple of weeks ago I gave the GOP a hard time about not paying close enough to the disastrous ObamaCare legislation and allowing Americans to forget about what has been rammed down our throats by the Democrats.  Today, House Minority Leader John Boehner’s office published a thorough analysis of the “Three Months of Broken Promises” brought on by this abomination, and in doing so, he has done an excellent job in publicizing the lies and broken health care promises of the Obama administration.

There’s a reason why we must continue to be diligent in our opposition:  there is a direct correlation between opposition to ObamaCare and support for GOP candidates.  From the June 19th Wall Street Journal:

In both January and May, opinion about reform had a statistically significant and electorally important impact on intention to vote against the Democratic candidate for Senate. Voters who opposed health reform were around 20 percentage points more likely to vote for the Republican candidate.

We also asked the standard generic ballot question, “If the 2010 elections for the House of Representatives were held today, would you vote Democrat or Republican?” If anything, the effect of health reform on House races is even larger than the 20 point effect on Senate races. In January, voters who opposed health reform were 24 points more likely to vote Republican; by May, they were 44 points more likely. This is consistent with Charles Franklin’s analysis in Pollster.com showing that, for the first time since 1994, Republicans lead in the generic ballot.

The Journal article focuses on the importance of the GOP gaining or retaining the support of independents:

In contrast, independents’ views about health reform have a much greater effect on their vote intention. If, in either Colorado or Ohio, the president could swing independents’ opinion about health reform in his favor, our model predicts that the Democratic candidate for Senate could pick up as much as six additional percentage points of the independent vote.

In Colorado, this would mean that independents would split 56% to 44% for the Democrat rather than 50/50; in Ohio, it would mean that independents would split 52% to 48% rather than 57% to 43% for the Republican. In a close race, this could be enough to put the Democrat in the lead. Given the stability of public opinion in close states, our analysis suggests that the president faces an uphill battle.

Not that any of this should be a huge shocker, but…it is important to keep the pressure on.  And Rep. Boehner’s work is an excellent example of this.

So, to give credit where credit is due – I’m thrilled to see the GOP applying pressure.  The Boehner document is outstanding, and I strongly urge everyone to download it and send it to their favorite leftist.

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  • libertyatstake

    Boehner has generally been doing a great job playing a weak hand. Wish he would stop fumbling around with the Barton thing, though, and just stand up to defend the obvious instead of worrying about political perceptions – I mean that’s so GOP 2004.

    http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
    [For a light hearted take on our present peril]

  • popdaddy

    I guess I could say “where is the media pumping this out?”

    I forwarded the pdf file to all on my email contact list, it’s great to see there is still life in the GOP in Congress.

  • tjpeco

    I just forwarded this on to all my family members. I hope to see some press come from this document. Too bad it wont.

  • eastbaylarry

    The republican the ?Three Months of Broken Promises? details all that republicans have been doing and continue to do.

    I *do* have an issue with the “repeal the mandates” stand taken; we need to repeal the whole dang thing and start over.

  • taxpayer1234

    and it shows that the Republicans have not just been sitting on their hands and pointing at Democrats over this issue.

    Yes, let’s give credit to the Republicans who are trying to reverse the insanity that is Obamacare.

  • 6eorge Jetson

    over the past couple of months.

    Could the message of Left and Big Govt, and by association, nationalized health care, have presented itself any worse over the past few months?

    The world has witnessed two vivid, concrete object lessons demonstrating empirically the folly of statism. First, the bankrupt condition of statist Greece and Europe presents a clear case against the fiscal insanity of Big Govt. Followed by the Gulf disaster and the inability of the US Govt to accept help from the Dutch & co and to simply get out of the way of Bobby Jindal’s local efforts. Other than costing too much and not working , what could be wrong about the Left’s agenda?

    The oil-skimming ships sent back to shore by the Coast Guard? In ObamaCare, those will be the ambulences.

    But, obviously, we can’t let up, and I applaud your persistence!

  • edintexas

    Amen! I’ve taken issue with Jeb Hensarling over this exact point. In one of his telephone “Town Hall” discussions he said “repeal some of” this abomination. That someone normally pretty conservative would use that terminology tells me the spineless Rs still hold sway in DC.

    As others have pointed out, “Three Months of Broken Promises” will never see the light of day in the media.

  • reggie1

    “and in doing so, he has done an excellent job in publicizing the lies”

    Actually, that’s called “documenting.” Publicizing implies actually getting coverage. Your original intuition was correct, the GOP let the issue slide instead of keeping the public engaged and monitoring.

    Documenting the lies isn’t even the issue, because Dems can come up with a dozen excuses, successfully, because “best intentions” gets a pass.

    No, the winning issue is not what isn’t getting done, it’s what IS getting done: killing insurance companies, running good doctors out of the industry, padding government payrolls….

    Citizens might not like bad management, but it doesn’t scare them. This must be framed as an attack on American values of quality and choice.

  • scubadiver49er

    Isn’t it more like “Obamanation”????? Just asking.

  • leehazel

    I like the “so 2004″ the same can be said for John McCain. The senate Repulicans, now and those to be added in Nov. do not need this senior, wet blanket, grab your ankles and move left, senator.
    It’s time for a change in AZ and JD Hayworth would be a welcome repalcement.

  • tapout

    I am an Emergency Physician and literally have had nightmares over what is poised to happen to our medical system. I’m preaching to the choir, but I can assure you that Obamacare is not an attempt to fix what is wrong, rather an attempt at social justice and wealth redistribution. The bill that passed is the framework for fundamentally transforming American Healthcare into a single payor system much like in Canada and Western Europe. We need to not only repeal the bill, but replace it with real and lasting free market solutions to the problems.

    I recently heard from a GE MRI technologist that there are more MRI machines at the Mayo clinic in Rochester than in all of Canada. That is our future if we do not veer from our current trajectory.

    We need to support and defend our free market american capitalism driven healthcare.

    We need to keep this on the front burner because I fear much more than lost election opportunities, but irreversible changes to the best healthcare system in the world.