We haven’t learned to love it. ObamaCare, that is:
Three weeks after Congress passed its new national health care plan, support for repeal of the measure has risen four points to 58%. That includes 50% of U.S. voters who strongly favor repeal.The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters nationwide finds 38% still oppose repeal, including 32% who strongly oppose it.
It’s startling that fifty percent strongly favor its repeal. It is not simply that Obama hasn’t sold his signature health-care legislation; attitudes are hardening even before the tax hikes, premiums increases, and Medicare cuts go into effect. And what of all those House Democrats who were promised their “historic” vote would be rewarded? Well, turns out the White House was wrong and likely never believed it in the first place. And this, it seems, is a political miscalculation of the first order. For a new Congress and eventually a new president can undue all their handiwork. What then of history? And what then of the Democratic Party, which has expended every bit of political capital on this now-hated bill? It seems that the failure to build political consensus and the determination to ram the most liberal bill attainable through Congress may have some adverse consequences for Obama and his party. It has, however, reinvigorated and revived the conservative movement. That’s no small accomplishment.